ZAMBIA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Christopher Kapambe, Kasewe Banda, Nakasamba Banda Chanda and Chamwaza Chioneni Phiri AMW & Company Legal Practitioners
AMW & Company Legal Practitioners is a full-ser- vice Zambian firm established in 1996, with offices in Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe. It advises domestic and international clients on arbitration and dispute resolution, corporate and commercial transactions,
banking and finance, mining, energy, construction, infrastructure, project finance and regulation. Its arbi - tration practice handles domestic and cross-border disputes and drafts dispute-resolution provisions for complex projects.
Authors
Christopher Kapambe is a learner legal practitioner at AMW & Company Legal Practitioners. He has a particular interest in international arbitration and dispute resolution. Christopher supports the firm through
Nakasamba Banda Chanda is a partner at AMW & Company Legal Practitioners and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She acts as counsel and neutral in commercial arbitration, mediation and
case law research on arbitration agreements, jurisdiction, public policy, enforcement and the supervisory role of Zambian courts. He contributed the case law, judicial support and enforcement analysis to this article. Christopher is affiliated with the CIArb Zambia Young Members Group and Young ICCA.
adjudication, including regulatory and investment disputes. She is past chair of the CIArb Zambia Branch and serves as secretary general and a director of the Lusaka International Arbitration Centre. She contributed the public-private partnership and investor-state arbitration analysis to this article.
Kasewe Banda is a senior associate at AMW & Company Legal Practitioners, specialising in arbitration, construction law and commercial mediation. He has supported multimillion-dollar
Chamwaza Chioneni Phiri is a trainee associate and practice development manager at AMW & Company Legal Practitioners and an LLM candidate in
international trade and investment law. She supports the arbitration and commercial practice through legal research, contract drafting, regulatory analysis and due diligence. Chamwaza writes on Zambia’s arbitration, infrastructure, PPP and investment-law landscape. She developed the opening framework and the article’s central thesis that arbitration should be understood as economic infrastructure.
construction projects and represented clients in domestic and international arbitration. Trained in advocacy by SOAS University of London, Kasewe is an accredited commercial mediator and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He contributed the sector-specific arbitration, construction, energy and dispute-funding analysis to this article.
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