AFRICAN HUB COUNTRIES LEADING FIRMS
Previously acted as local counsel for: • Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) • STRABAG • PTA Bank (Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank)
Rex House 145 Magore Street Upanga, Tanzania
P.O. Box 7495 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 22 211 4291, 4899 / 213 7191, 0772 001 666
Fax: +255 22 211 9474 / 2830 Email:
rex@rexattorneys.co.tz Web:
www.rexattorneys.co.tz
Our team:
REX’s greatest asset is its team of Partners, Associate-Partners, Legal Officers and support staff. REX has seven Partners and two Consultants.
Partners: Dr. Alex Thomas Nguluma, Managing Partner Amb. Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar Mr. Lugano J. S. Mwandambo Mr. Christopher Giattas Mr. George Mpeli Kilindu Mr. Sinare Zaharan Ms. Tabitha Maro
The Consultants are: Dr. Eve Hawa Sinare Mr. James Friedlander
Firm profile:
REX ATTORNEYS (“REX” or “the Firm”) is a firm of dedicated lawyers with a long and prominent presence in the private legal practice industry in Tanzania.
REX is an integrated corporate legal practice deriving its strength from an experienced team of legal practitioners with comprehensive and extensive corporate law experience. REX has expanded its expertise by associating with Lex Africa, a network of top law firms across English-speaking Africa. The Firm is also part of the World Services Group, a network of top law firms and related service providers represented in over 200 countries. The aim of these networks is to exchange legal expertise and harmonise services, offering clients seamless and convenient legal services across borders.
Practice areas:
• Agriculture and Forestry Law • Banking and Financial Services Law • Capital Markets and Securities Law • Commercial and Tax Litigation • Competition Law • Corporate Law • Corporate Secretarial Services • Dispute Resolution, including International Arbitration • Employment Law • Energy Law • Intellectual Property Law • Legislative and Regulatory Regime Review • Natural Resources Law: Mining, Oil and Gas • Project Finance • Telecommunications Law
International networks:
www.lexafrica.com www.worldservicesgroup.com
Energy & Infrastructure practice profile:
REX focuses mostly on corporate law and has acted as transactional lawyers on various mergers, equity acquisitions, asset acquisitions and corporate structuring assignments. Furthermore, REX’s corporate services include corporate formation, corporate secretarial services, corporate legal due diligence investigations, preparation of trade and investment agreements.
REX has extensive experience in the areas of project finance, banking and related financial services, mining, oil and gas, capital markets, competition, insolvencies, employment matters, legislation and regulatory regime review, intellectual property (patent and copyright applications), commercial litigation and international and local arbitration.
Recent transactional highlights:
• Acting as local counsel to the Arranger on a USD 600 million sovereign loan note transaction to finance, among other projects, infrastructure development.
• Representing the Tanzania National Electric Corporation on two arbitration proceedings against Dowans Holdings and Richmond Development LLC at the International Chamber of Commerce and later at the High Court and the Court of Appeal of the United Republic of Tanzania.
• Representing a Canadian based power production company on negotiations with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania on a Power Purchase Agreement.
• Advising a Singaporean based power production company on land ownership matters relating to erecting electricity transmission lines from their power generating plant to the national grid.
• Advising various banks on a USD 60 million syndication to the Tanzania Ports Authority for the construction of a Single Point Mooring (SPM) and pipeline system at Ras-Mjimwema in Dar-es- Salaam.
• Advising a German based construction company on various legal matters arising from the construction of the Dar-es-Salaam Rapid Transport System (DART).
• Advising various financial institutions on a USD 40 million facility advanced to a South African based company on the expansion of its diamond mine in Tanzania partly owned and operated by its Tanzanian subsidiary.
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