Two of Zambia’s top IFLR 1000 rated lawyers, have partnered to incorporate Moira Mukuka Legal Practitioners (LP). Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and corporate finance lawyer Sharon Sakuwaha and Banking and Finance (B&F) lawyer Brenda Mutale Chanda, have joined forces to meet innovation and complexity in a fast evolving world.
Despite the current economic posture of Africa’s second largest copper producer, Zambia, marred by rising debt, spiralling inflation and currency woes, the two Co – Managing Partners continue to discern opportunity signalled by decade forecasts of $15,000/MT red metal prices driven by Greenfield projects such as the electric car era that will spur base metal demand, rising appetite for green bonds for sustainability financing options as capital markets evolve and a digitisation boom whose appetite has been bulldozed by pandemic times, suffice to say Zambia is at a critical stage as it gears up for economic recovery in the labyrinth of debt restructure and ongoing talks with the Washington based lender, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Sakuwaha and Chanda continue to see deal influx for Zambia as the economy continues to attract investment opportunity.
Moira Mukuka Legal Practitioners Co – Managing Partner – Sharon Sakuwaha.
Moira Mukuka Legal Practitioners Co – Managing Partner Brenda Mutale Chanda.
Sharon Sakuwaha, a Westminister University (LLM) corporate finance law graduate, is a mergers and acquisition, private equity and project finance lawyer who last served as Partner at Corpus Legal Practitioners for close to a decade while Brenda Mutale Chanda, a University of London (LLM) banking and finance law graduate, recently served as Partner at AB & David Zambia for 8-years.
With various accolades such as IFLR 1000 rising star 2020 recognition by the Institute for African Women in Law as a woman to watch for Brenda Chanda and IFLR 1000 leading individual by legal 500 in addition to chambers and partners for Sharon Sakuwaha, the two resources are set to join the increasingly competitive legal landscape.
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