Banking & Finance

• Counsel to FNBB and Rand Merchant Bank in an aircraft Finance Transaction
• Acted as lead counsel to First Capital Bank Botswana Limited in a USD/MWK Currency Swap Facility on behalf of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, as arranged by Bank One (Mauritius) in its capacity Mandated Lead Arranger (Confidential).

Competition & Market Regulation

• Representing Cooley LLP in a merger transaction which involved the acquisition of NICE Systems (Proprietary) Limited’s assets (Target Enterprise) by Qognify Limited (Acquiring Enterprise) in the United Kingdom, Israel & USA
• Counsel to Servest (Proprietary) Limited in a merger transaction between ECH Management Solutions Botswana and Servest (Proprietary) Limited which resulted in a combined turnover of ZAR3,500,000,000.00
• Counsel to Natural Selections and South African private investors in their acquisition of 66% of the issued share capital of a major tourism business and the subsequent acquisition by a South African investor

Debt Capital Markets

• Acting for BDC in the resuscitation of BDC BWP1,000,000.00 Note Programme and listing of BWP226,000,000.00 Series 001 Notes
• Acting for Access Bank in the approval of its BWP500,000,000.00 Note Programme on the BSE

Dispute Resolution

• Counsel to a shareholder against Morula Capital (Proprietary) Limited, for a governance issue that culminated in the disposition of shares worth BWP
  12,000,000.00
• Counsel to Sun International (Proprietary) Limited (now “Avani”) in interdict proceedings against the Casino Control Board restraining the issuance of a casino license

Employment & Labour Relations

• Acting for Imara Holdings Limited with respect to a retrenchment exercise
• Providing Kgalagadi Breweries (Proprietary) Limited with highly specialised employment and labour advice in respect of employee disciplinary hearings

Energy & Natural Resources

• Acting for Bravura South Africa, a mining conglomerate operating in West Africa, which sought to enforce its rights against a Caterpillar Finance agent in
  respect of equipment situate in Botswana.
• Acting for BCL (in liquidation) in respect of a rehabilitation declarator

Construction & Public Works

• Acted as lead counsel for Mwinda Alley, in a multi-million pula arbitration over the Bemcoville
  development.
• Acted as counsel For a JV partner in a BWP 2 billion project of Lobatse water supply master plant.

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Assisted Max Power with non-fatal insolvency measures i.e. scheme of compromise
• Acted for FNBB to secure a novel pooling of assets and winding up order against a franchisee of KFC and assisted the liquidator with a restructuring including disposal of the franchise rights.

Equity Capital Markets

•  Acting for BDC in a legal due diligence exercise for a project wherein BDC was desirous of acquiring, initially, approximately 35% of the total equity in Access Bank
• Acted as lead counsel to Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Limited in respect of the private placement and subsequent listing of 7-year senior unsecured notes on the Botswana Stock Exchange (“BSE”) worth BWP229,963,000.00

Property Development & Conveyancing

• Advised the developer of the i-towers development, and effected Botswana’s first successful sectional titles in addition to all registration of title

Public Procurement & Government Contracting

• Acted for a mechanical works contractor, A.S.A, with respect to the construction of the new BURS headquarters in a BWP 53, 000, 000.00 claim.

Tax

• Acted for Bank Gaborone in tax litigation from the Board of Adjudicators to the Court of appeal, setting an important precedent in the Hire purchase business model.