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Areas of Practice
+ Corporate & Commercial
+ Regulatory & Advisory
Qualifications
+ LLB (University of Botswana)
Michael joined the Bookbinder Business Law firm in August 2018 and was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of Botswana in December 2018. He graduated with an LL.B from the University of Botswana in October 2018. Michael has experience in advising on local regulatory issues, providing general corporate advisory and commercial litigation.
Biography
Education
- LLB, University of Zimbabwe, 2008
- Trial Advocacy Trainer, National Institute of Trial Advocacy (USA), 2013
- Certificate in Trial Advocacy, Law Society of Botswana, 2009
Membership
- Law Society of Botswana
- Member of Trial Advocacy Training Panel of the Law Society of Botswana
Admission
- Attorney: 2009
Experience
- Management of the Financial Recoveries Division.
- Advising businesses on the impact, interpretation and implementation of new policies and legislation impacting on debt collection.
- Overseeing call centre consultants.
- Managing queue of collection accounts and determining necessary course of action.
- Managing the establishment and maintenance of payment arrangements.
- Negotiating out of court settlements and other exigencies.
- Advising clients on necessary actions and strategies for debt repayment.
- Organizing, implementing and supervising mentor training; focused on customer service & dispute resolution.
- Dealing with labour related disputes.
Biography
Areas of Practice
+ Litigation
+ Insolvency & Restructuring
+ Dispute Resolution
+ Employment
Qualifications
+ LLM (University of Botswana)
+ LLB (University of Botswana)
+ Post Grad – ERM (Botswana Accountancy college)
+ Post Grad – Finance for Non-Financial Manager (Botswana Accountancy College – candidate)
Olebile Daphney Muzila was admitted as an attorney of the Courts of Botswana in 2015 and joined Bookbinder Business Law firm in 2016. She is part of the Dispute Resolution Department and has experience in commercial litigation, particularly in insolvency, restructuring, corporate recoveries, employment disputes, mining, banking, construction, retail, and procurement law.
She also provides strategic and risk management advice, as well as legal auditing. She has acted for various financial institutions, government, and multinational companies. Olebile also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board.
She holds a Master of Laws and an LLB from the University of Botswana. She also holds post-graduate certificates in Enterprise Risk Management and in Finance for non-financial managers from the Botswana Accountancy College. In the next 10 years, Daphney wants to grow her practice niche in the firm in corporate governance, insolvency, and tax law to meet the dynamic issues in the commercial practice.
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Biography
Education
- LLB, University of Botswana, 2019
Membership
- Law Society of Botswana
Admission
- Attorney: February 2020
Experience
- Contract drafting and review
- Litigation relating to breach of contract
- Conducting supervised due diligence exercises
- Advising on the company laws and financial laws of Botswana
- Liquidations and creditors meetings
- Advising various insurance companies on insurance claims and policies (including public liability, motor vehicle collision, business interruption, medical negligence)
- Litigation relating to insurance contracts
- Chairing disciplinary hearings
- Litigation relating to labour disputes
- Advice and litigation on electoral law
- Medical negligence claims
- Advising on regulatory issues
Biography
Education
- LLB (cum laude), University of Pretoria, 2009
- Certificate in Islamic Commercial Law, CIMA, 2014
- LLM Commercial, UNISA – On-going
Membership
- Law Society of Botswana
- Botswana Qualifications Authority, Accredited Law Lecturer: 2010
Admission
- Attorney: 2011
Experience
- Drafting, reviewing and advising extensively on various transactional documents including lease agreements, sale agreements, share sale and share purchase agreements, share subscription agreements, distribution agreements, loan agreements, joint venture agreements and construction agreements, as well as conducting various due diligence investigations.
- Advising on the different corporate formations available in Botswana, the distinctions between same and advising clients on the most suitable corporate identity for their entity.
- Advising on company conversions, including conversion of an external company to a local subsidiary, conversion of a foreign company into a local entity and conversion of a close company into a private company.
- Advising a number of companies intending to set up in Botswana on Botswana tax law, including advice on corporate taxation, tax reliefs, double taxation agreements, exemptions on tax and special tax regimes.
- Advising on competition law aspects of transactions.
- Advising on private equity transactions.
- Advising international insurance companies on the transacting of international business in Botswana and the regulatory regime.
- Providing advice to international companies on employment of non-citizens (compliance requirements), employee quotas and general aspects on the law regulating the relationship between an employer and an expatriate employee.
- Drafting employee policies including the harassment policy, HIV policies, internet policies, prohibition of discrimination policy, remuneration policy and disciplinary procedures policies.
- Advising international and local clients on the licensing requirements with respect to telecommunication licences (including radio and cellphone licences) as licensed by the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority.
- Advising on collective investments regulation, clearing and settlement systems registration and regulation in Botswana.
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Biography
Qualifications
+ B Comm Law (Forthare University)
+ LLB (Nelson Mandela University)
Gotsilemotho is Senior Associate at the Bookbinder Business Law firm in the Corporate Department. Her practice areas are corporate & commercial, capital markets, competition and regulatory & advisory.
She has assisted and advised on a variety of general and specialised corporate-commercial matters. Gotsilemotho’s experience includes conducting due diligence exercises, providing general corporate advisory, drafting agreements as well as advising on estate planning and administration. She has also advised clients on various competition law issues ranging from merger control to prohibited practices.
Gotsilemotho has an LLB from Nelson Mandela University and a BComm Law from the University of Fort Hare. Gotsilemotho is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of Botswana.