Globinar Southern Africa as an Investment and Trading Destination - Legal Perspectives (Part 1)

Globinar Southern Africa as an Investment and Trading Destination - Legal Perspectives (Part 1)

• Wednesday, August 6th at 5pm CAT / 8am PT / 9am MT / 10am CT / 11am ET / 3pm Accra / 4pm London / 5pm CET / 6pm Tel Aviv + Kiev / 7pm Dubai / 8:30pm Mumbai / 11pm Singapore / 
• Thursday, August 7th at 12am Seoul + Tokyo / 1am Sydney

This will be a two-day event to discuss and connect with members of the African Continental Legal Alliance (ACLA) on legal perspectives on trade in the countries that make up the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

The event will be a collaboration with the Global Chamber and will be an opportunity for participants to learn much more about investment laws and ways of doing business in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which are all countries in the SADC.

Topics:

• International arbitration with respect to trade and investments with SADC countries.
• Structuring your business in SADC with a regional HQ in Botswana.
• Trade and Investment Opportunities in Lesotho: Processes and Procedures
• Foreign Investment in Mozambique-Benefits

Speakers:

Jeffery Daar  - Senior Principal at Daar & Newman, Lawyers (United States)

Jeffery Daar is a principal of the law firm Daar & Newman in Los Angeles, USA. The firm is a long established general practice law firm dedicated to providing the highest quality of representation to its clients, including acting as a gateway for international business both inbound to and outbound from the U.S.

Mr. Daar’s expertise includes strategic planning, complex state and federal litigation, innovative dispute resolution, and international transactions and disputes. His practice focuses on both litigation and transactional projects. His extensive litigation background gives him added insight into structuring transactions for clients along with his entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving and dispute resolution. He has served as a City Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles for more than 15 years and was Chair of The State Bar of California International Law Section. Mr. Daar holds a law degree from the University of California at Davis and a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College. 

Danie Goosen - Goosen Prokureur / Attorney (Botswana)

General corporate and commercial legal firm with practice areas including: Property transactions Financial Service Commercial Contracts Commercial Litigation Commercial Real Estate Corporations and Partnerships Insolvency Employment Litigation and Advice Estate Planning and Administration Trusts and Wills Curatorships Insurance Defence and Recoveries Zoning and Land Use Planning and Development Loan Transactions.

Mathapelo Kanono - Deputy High Commissioner of Lesotho to South Africa (Lesotho) 

Deputy High Commissioner of Lesotho to South Africa. A seasoned diplomat and an Attorney with over two decades experience in legal services, diplomatic relations, bilateral and multilateral cooperation.  Board member of Lesotho Radiation Protection Agency. Nuclear lawyer and nuclear technology specialist with over 14 years’ experience of the use of nuclear technology in cancer treatment, crop and livestock production; water resources management; industrial applications; and production of nuclear energy. 

Co-founder of three private companies in property development, agribusiness and use of nuclear technology. Passionate for entrepreneurship, business development, inclusive growth and sustainable development. Ms Kanono holds a master’s degree in International Law focused on investment and international trade law from the University of Vienna, Austria; and Post Graduate Diploma in Nuclear Law at the University of Montpellier, France.

Wanda Honwana - Lead of Wanda Honwana & Associados (Mozambique) 

Wanda is the lead of Wanda Honwana & Associados (WHA) is a law firm dedicated to providing legal assistance to natural and legal persons, national and foreign, in all areas of law.

Focused on consolidating the practice of law, with rigor, professionalism, ethics and quality, WHA aims to provide its Clients with a legal assistance service that presides over a concern of Commitment to Excellence.

Through a highly qualified and multidisciplinary team, and benefiting from a deep knowledge of the Mozambican market, WHA has been establishing itself, in the panorama of Mozambican law, as an innovative and independent firm, providing a highly qualified, timely service with a high degree of professionalism, including a deep and always up-to-date knowledge of the matter, with the appropriate technical support, directed to the real needs of customers and always bearing in mind a personalized service.

Facilitators:

Niyi Sanusi - Partner at The Throne Legal Associates (Nigeria)

Niyi Sanusi is a lawyer who is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He has a first degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws, both from the University of Lagos.

He is the Managing Partner of The Throne Legal Associates with practice areas including company/commercial law, corporate practice, business law, intellectual property, investment advisory and due diligence, among others.

In addition, Niyi serves as Advisory Board Chair for Global Chamber® Lagos and as Deputy Director. He is a member of the African Continental Legal Alliance (ACLA), which is a network platform for law firms across Africa. Niyi is Director of a startup mining company called Zaki Mining Limited as well as Trustee of the non-profit organization, The Misrah Leadership Centre.

Whenever he is able to, he also conducts visitation to incarcerated persons on counseling and voluntary social/charity work. Niyi plays chess and likes to watch football.

Naomi Kasi Mue - Founder of Kasi & Eva Advocates (Kenya)

Naomi Kasi Mue is the Founder of Kasi & Eva Advocates, a Nairobi based law firm that offers a full spectrum of legal services.

The firm offer high quality and customized legal advisory services and are renowned for their commitment to excellence and ability to find innovative solutions to the most complex, multi-national and at times, first of its kind legal problems.

These services are structured into two main business divisions: corporate and commercial legal services, focusing on transactional and regulatory services;

Kasi & Eva Advocates are further involved in general litigation and dispute resolution, in the form of mediation and arbitration.

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