Chris has over 24 years of firsthand experience working with organizations that have global footprints in the Extractive Industries (particularly mining), Telecommunications, as well as Banking and Finance. He held senior positions requiring strategy development and implementation. Chris focuses his legal practice on Corporate and Commercial Law, particularly on Mining, Banking and Finance, Tax, Insurance, Employment, Competition Law and Environmental Law. Chris is registered by the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) as a certified legal consultant in the Oil and Gas Sector.

Praised for his compelling advocacy and persuasive negotiating skills, Chris is acknowledged by clients and peers alike as one of the finest Tanzanian leading management labour and employment lawyers. He is renowned for his ability to develop innovative strategies that solve complex labour relations problems, as well as for providing strategic day to day operational  advices.

Chris firmly believes in client-centered representation such that meeting the client’s needs becomes the primary driver of business relationships. Once the client’s needs and wishes are established, Chris works zealously (with integrity) to obtain the desired outcome, often with innovative solutions while keeping the client’s interests ahead of everything.

• Partner , Lawfields Attorneys.
• Head of Human Capital, First National Bank
  Tanzania Limited (FNB), May 2016 – Dec 2022.
• Head of Human Capital – Stanbic Bank Tanzania
  Limited, Dec 2013 – Mar 2016.
• Head of Human Resources – Citibank Tanzania
  Limited, Sep 2009 – Dec 2013.
• Admin and Labour Manager – Consolidated
  African Diamonds Ltd – Mwadui Mine, 2000 –
  2005.
• HR and Admin Manager – Grimwood Davies (TZ)
  Pty Limited, 1997-2000.

• Advocate, High Court of Tanzania.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Law School of Tanzania.
• MBA – The Eastern and Southern African Management Institute – ESAMI, 2013.
• LL.B – Tumaini University, Iringa University College, Tanzania, 2008.
• Diploma in Bookkeeping and Accounts, Economics and Commerce: Cambridge International College, Jersey, Great Britain, 1999.

• Tanganyika Law Society (TLS).
• East African Law Society (EALS).
• International Bar Association (IBA)

Swahili and English