Address:
2nd Floor, Blue House, Part of Plot 2374
Great East Road Arcades
Lusaka
Zambia

+260 96 227 5329

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Key contacts:

Managing Partner, Zambia: Mabvuto Sakala
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Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 650
Total staff complement: 1150
Number of countries: 6
Number of offices: 9
Network memberships: Lex Mundi
Alliance firm: Aman & Partners LLP (Ethiopia), Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie (Nigeria)
Best friend relationships: Across Africa


The members of Bowmans’ Zambian practice have been involved in precedent-setting domestic cases and pioneering cross-border transactions for more than 25 years.

Its specialist lawyers provide a comprehensive legal service extending from banking and finance law to corporate advisory work and dispute resolution and litigation.

Their expertise ranges from corporate, financial, tax and competition law (including mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, syndicated lending, corporate financing, project financing, export credit financing and debt restructuring) to litigation, alternative dispute resolution and employment law.

Clients include leading banks and financial institutions, securities firms, insurance companies, investment funds, state-owned enterprises, mining houses, telecommunications and energy companies.

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  • IFLR Africa Awards, 2025: African Firm of the Year
  • Chambers Africa Awards, 2025: Law Firm of the Year: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania
  • African Legal Awards, 2024: African Law Firm of the Year
  • Nairobi Legal Awards, 2024: Large Law Firm of the Year, Kenya
  • EAVCA Awards, 2024: Legal Advisor of the Year, Kenya

"Understood the transaction fully and guided on both local and international law."

"Technical competence, patience, listening, communication, meeting of deadlines."

The firm has specialist expertise in a range of sectors. Click here for further detail.

Alan Keep
Managing Partner, Group
T: +27 11 669 9348
E: alan.keep@bowmanslaw.com
 
Paras Shah
Managing Partner, Kenya
T: +254 20 289 9000
E: paras.shah@bowmanslaw.com
 
Fazil Hossenkhan
Managing Partner, Mauritius
T: +230 52 98 0101
E: fazil.hossenkhan@bowmanslaw.com

Stephen Vlieghe
Managing Partner, Namibia
T: +264 61 382 800
E: stephen.vlieghe@bowmanslaw.com

Michael Strain
Managing Partner, Tanzania
T: +255 76 898 8640
E: michael.strain@bowmanslaw.com