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We are lead legal advisers bridging Zimbabwe's legal practice with global trends, and we have taken the responsibility to lead the engagement of international investment into Zimbabwe.

DBN
Integrated Legal Services Harare · Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 10+ years · ACQ Global Awards winner
Mining LawCorporate & CommercialInvestment LawLabour LawConveyancingCivil LitigationAdministration of Estates

The firm

A premier Zimbabwe law firm. Clients as diverse as our practice rely on DBN for insight and advice.

Banks, industrial conglomerates, financial institutions, governments and state authorities. Over a decade of litigation, deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and debt recovery, from offices in Harare and Bulawayo.

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Practices

We excel across the law that moves capital.

Our edge is mining and the engagement of international investment into Zimbabwe, backed by the full corporate, dispute and advisory bench.

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Mining Law

A premier mining law advisory firm in a mineral-rich country. We balance the interests of the investor and the community, from special grants to indigenisation.

LeadK. Mutumanje
FocusGreen & brownfield
Mine headframe
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Corporate & Commercial

Company formations, exchange control, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, deal structuring and public-private partnerships, tailored to the client's vision.

LeadM. Nzarayapenga
FocusM&A · finance
Boardroom
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Labour Law

A dedicated team for employers and employees: contracts, codes of conduct, litigation, retrenchment and the principles of fairness, with published authority on the leading cases.

LeadM. Moyo
FocusDisputes · advisory
Industrial workers
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Investment Law

We raise finance for local clients and draw agreements between local and foreign companies, with synergies among private-equity funds looking for opportunity in Africa.

LeadC. Chabvepi
FocusInbound capital
Financial district

The full bench

Sixteen practice areas. One integrated firm.
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Where we are strongest

Bridging international capital into Zimbabwe's mineral economy.

We have completed green and brownfield projects with local companies and international corporates listed on stock exchanges around the globe, and we carry a dedicated Mining Trends Analyst. A foreign investor's first question, answered before the first email.

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Our people

First and foremost, DBN is a team.
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Insights

Authority on the law that shapes the region.
MiningContinental analysis
Continental and regional mining sector analysis and Zimbabwe's positioning

A comparative read of West, Central and Southern African mining markets, and where Zimbabwe's mineral portfolio sits as prices recovered.

LabourSupreme Court
Supreme Court speaks on job termination: the Zuva Petroleum case

How Nyamande & Anor v Zuva Petroleum reopened termination on notice, and what it meant for employers across Zimbabwe.

CorporateStrategy
Corporate real estate: own it or lease it?

Every corporate's investment into its real estate can be a strength or a weakness. Maximising the value of the balance sheet.

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