WE OFFER A RANGE
OF FOCUSED COMMERCIAL
LEGAL EXPERTISE.
We are focused on commercial and transactional law. Within this, we focus on specialist areas below.
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We are focused on commercial and transactional law. Within this, we focus on specialist areas below.
We represent and advise 60% of all banks in Malawi. Our services to banks include but are not limited to dispute settlement [litigation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration], advisory, risk mitigation advice and transactional services.
Our Lusungu Gondwe, and Mwaiwathu Majawa have deep experience in several aspects of banking and corporate finance including syndicated loans, factoring, investment finance, contract farming in agriculture, cross currency swaps, project preparation facilities, project related financing and generally all aspects of cross-border, multi-jurisdiction lending.
Our team has advanced knowledge of the law of capital markets and securities trading. The team has published extensively with reputable thought-leaders on securitization, project finance, and private equity.
Our Corporate law practice is headed by Chifundo Ngwira, a lawyer of over 25 years standing at the Malawi Bar. He has litigated, arbitrated and advised on mergers and acquisitions, company reorganizations and insolvency.
Our lawyers further provide extended legal services such as monitoring compliance of companies with the Companies Act to avoid unnecessary penalties by the Registrar of Companies. The team is available for all manner company secretarial work. It also offers Legal Compliance Audit Services [LCAS] to our Clients. It has also performed legal due diligence assignments in preparation for mergers and acquisitions and several other corporate activities.
For over 20 years state owned enterprise have been extensively privatized either wholly or by having private sector partner with the Government of Malawi. Such divestitures have given birth to serious need for specialized knowledge of the law of Public Private Partnerships [PPP].
Power challenges, shortage of petroleum products in or around 2012 and the discovery of some parcels of minerals in Malawi have spawned quite some legal literature in terms of regulation, export trade, taxation regime, transportation and foreign exchange remittances.
Our taxation team advises on improving the efficiency of tax collection and combatting non-compliance. The team tackles all facets of income tax, tax due diligence reviews, estate planning and donations tax, international tax, financing and re-financing activities, the various complexities inherent in value-added tax, tax disputes in litigation, including representing clients during the Malawi Revenue Authority audits.
We are unrivalled in our ability to produce practical solutions for our clients quickly, efficiently and with sensitivity. We are skilled at handling contentious and advisory issues within the full spectrum of labor law. Our areas of work include alternative dispute resolution , board reorganization, collective and individual employment litigation, collective bargaining, employment contracts, independent contractors, outsourcing, pension, policy, procedure and handbook development, regulatory advice, restraint of trade, restructuring, reorganization, reduction and retrenchment, industrial strikes.
With the establishment of the COMESA Competition Commission in Malawi, all COMESA Competition filings are done in Malawi. This has upsurged the need for legal expertise in competition and anti- trust laws services in Malawi.
We have advised clients in respect of formulation and promulgation of rules and regulations governing digital communications, internet, telecommunications, postal matters, broadcasting, electronic media, and information technology generally.
Our approach to dispute resolution is to obtain justice for a client at the right pace. We do not litigate unnecessarily. We only do so when it is most prudent and in a very cost-effective manner.
Our wealth of knowledge in commercial law, corporate law, banking and finance public private partnerships, taxation, corporate finance, intellectual property and communication, and competition and anti-trust law practices places us at the helm of the market in litigation. All our lawyers are highly regarded litigators.
We help minimize risk to businesses and preserve valuable relationships by negotiating with their debtors and making arrangements for payment of the debt.
If all this fails however, we are ready and capable to represent you in court. We have the privilege of working with some of the prestigious corporations, financial institutions and more in Malawi and you rest easy knowing that your debt is under control.
Government and organs of State frequently make decisions and implement legislation that has direct effects on businesses. We have developed a niche in Malawi in conducting judicial reviews on various facets of law to ensure that our clients are never left without recourse on these complex but very important matters. We draft and comment on primary and subordinate legislation. We assist clients in relation to making submissions on this legislation as it passes through the parliamentary or regulation-making process. We assist our clients with lobbying Government and making submissions to Parliament and Malawi Law Commission regarding legislative reforms.