Sydney Chisenga

Sydney Chisenga is the Managing Partner at Corpus Legal Practitioners, with 21 years of practice. He also leads
the Dispute Resolution and Public Policy Department which includes the Competition and TMT Practice Groups.

Sydney is highly specialized in litigation, arbitration, TMT and competition law and has frequently spoken on
competition law to a variety of fora. Sydney represents and acts for clients in commercial claims. He has led and
handled high level commercial litigation cases which include high-profile tax disputes, class actions and other
major regulatory litigation as well as claims.

Sydney is considered an expert in Zambian and African competition law. He is also listed as a competition law
expert in Zambia by the World Bank Global Competition Group and the COMESA Competition Commission. An
avid contributor of articles on Data Protection and ICT law, Merger Control in the “Getting the Deal Through”
publication as well as the “Doing Business” annual publication by the World Bank, Sydney is also an African
Regional Forum Liaison Officer of the Antitrust section of the International Bar Association. Currently, Sydney is
an Assessor of Superior Courts Civil Procedure at the Zambia institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE).

Sydney holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zambia and a Master of Laws degree in
Commercial Law with specializations in Banking, Competition, and Insolvency laws from the University of South
Africa. He is an Advocate of the Superior Courts of Zambia, a member of the International Bar Association and
Law Association of Zambia. He is also an Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

• Advised Globeleq Hydro Zambia Limited and British International Investment in a merger where Globeleq was acquiring a 51% stake in Lunsemfya Hydro Power Company Limited, in a transaction whose estimated value was USD 65,500,000.00. Successfully obtained approval from the CCPC for the said merger.
• Advised MTN Group on its proposed acquisition of tower infrastructure assets from IHS Holding Limited, a cross-border transaction valued in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. The firm conducted comprehensive legal due diligence on the target’s Zambian operations, covering corporate, financing, licensing, real estate, and commercial matters, while assessing regulatory compliance with Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority and Zambia Environmental Management Agency.
• Advised BSI Steel Holdings Limited and Clotan Steel Proprietary Limited in an application for merger authorisation. The transaction involved the proposed acquisition by BSi Steel Holdings Proprietary Limited of 100% of the issued share capital of Clotan Steel Proprietary Limited. The value of the said transaction is approximately USD 3, 785,143.70.
• Advised Differential Capital UK Acquisition Corporation Limited and the Cementation Company (Africa) Proprietary Limited and Murray and Roberts Limited in an application for a merger authorisation. The transaction involved the proposed acquisition by Differential Capital UK Acquisition Corporation Limited of 100% of the controlling interest in Cementation Company (Africa) Proprietary Limited and Murray and Roberts Cementation (Zambia) Limited. The value of the said transaction is approximately ZAR 1 billion.

• Competition
• M&A

• Government and public policy
• Media
• Technology and telecommunications

• LLM in Commercial Law, University of South Africa, 2014
• LLB, University of Zambia, 2003

• Fellow of Chartered, Institute of Arbitrators, 2025
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Law Association of Zambia (LAZ)

• Advocate of the Superior Courts of Zambia, 2005