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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, Masvingo Since 2001 19 practice areas
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.

We act for local, regional and international clients across the full breadth of commercial, corporate, dispute and advisory work. Since 2001: litigation, deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and debt recovery, from offices in Harare, Bulawayo and Masvingo.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

FocusInbound capital
Financial district

The full bench

Nineteen 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, balancing the interests of the regulator, the investor and the community. 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.
CorporateM&A
'Debunking the Rich Man's World': a journey into mergers and acquisitions in Zimbabwe

A DBN practitioner on what deal-making in Zimbabwe is really like, and the law that shapes every transaction.

LabourEmployment
Constructive dismissal in employment relationships

When an employee resigns because continued work was made intolerable: how constructive dismissal works under Zimbabwean labour law.

EstatesSuccession
Panorwadza Moyo: the legal issues surrounding Tuku's will, unpacked

The estate, inheritance and succession questions raised by a high-profile Zimbabwean will, explained for families and executors.

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