Vunganai Walter Chivore

Vunganai is a registered legal practitioner, notary public and conveyancer. He is registered to practice in Zimbabwe, Botswana and is a Listed Counsel on the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. He has wide-ranging experience in all areas of legal practice, with a deliberate bias towards International Business Law, Corporate and Commercial Law practice. He holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree, a Master’s in Business Administration. He is currently studying towards attaining a Doctorate in Business Leadership. He is well versed with various aspects of International Business Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, International Trade and Investment Law, Intellectual Property Law, Mining Law among other fields of law.

Mr. Chivore has attended to various matters ranging from foreclosures and debt collection for corporates, joint venture partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, mining joint ventures. He has gained experience to represent clients in all superior and lower courts dotted all over Zimbabwe in the region and internationally. The following are some of the briefs he has handled.

• International and Local Mergers, Acquisitions, joint ventures and partnership transactions.
• International business transactions involving intergovernmental agencies and companies, sale of shares and joint venture agreements between mining organizations and manufacturing companies;
• Advising a multinational mining on land and mineral rights and equipment acquisition deals;
• Advising on listings on various exchanges;
• Advising and representing clients in negotiations for international aircraft leasing arrangements, and drafting relevant documentation;
• Legal advisor on the listing of companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and other exchanges;
• Advising clients in transactions involving capitalisation such as rights issues, private placement, and capital reduction;
• Advising clients and structuring various business transactions in acquisitions, procurement, construction contracts, and indigenisation and empowerment compliance strategies;
• Advising clients on their rights to land and property developments;
• Undertaking legal due diligence, structuring business acquisition deals, drafting agreements and representing clients in business acquisition negotiations involving sale of assets share;
• Providing legal advice on banking sector regulatory and prudential issues and external guidelines and policy papers;
• Rendering legal opinions, negotiating and drafting different types of contracts (national and transnational investment, joint ventures, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, divestures, etc.); and

Registration of trademarks and copyrights locally and regionally for various clients.