Alebel Ashagrie

Alebel Ashagrie Endalew is qualified as an attorney at law with more than a decade of extensive experience in the Ethiopian legal sector.

Having served in the FDRE Ministry of Justice as a Federal Public Prosecutor for four years, he has demonstrated high level of professionalism and character required for litigation and investigation techniques. He served as a counsel for the Ethiopian government agencies in international commercial and investment disputes in litigation and arbitration proceedings and as an Arbitrator and Mediator of the Federal Attorney General Arbitral Tribunal in arbitrations and mediations between federal government institutions.

He also served as an Assistant Judge at the Federal First Instance Court of Ethiopia through which he was exposed to deal with very complex business and commercial transaction trials that enables him to widen his understanding to the business environment at large.

He is a founder of Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office and acting as a Principal Attorney. He specializes in arbitration matters (commercial and treaty-based), investment law, company incorporation, commercial and cross-border litigation, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, energy law and business negotiation. He regularly works with and for clients from the energy, construction, technology, manufacturing, transportation, commodities and/or trade finance sector.

He possesses excellent drafting skills and thoroughly up-to-date with relevant legislation. He also has an exemplary academic record, good communication skills, dispute resolution skills and an outgoing and determined personality.

He graduated, with great distinction, in 2012 and obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree from Wollo University. He is currently pursuing his LLM in Business Law from Addis Ababa University. He received an Award of Congratulations from Oxford University in 2011 for his winning business proposal.

He is a member of the Ethiopian Federal Bar Association.