Lawfields is a boutique law firm established in Tanzania and headquartered in Dar es Salaam. The Firm’s lawyers have over 60 years of combined experiences having worked with national and multinational organizations. The background experiences of the Firm’s members enable it to provide legal advisory services of the highest caliber in an industry focused manner that tends to exceed clients’ expectations.
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The Firm provides services to individuals, companies, NGOs, National and Global Subsidiaries in selected areas of corporate and commercial law. We help our clients to structure, acquire/ merge and integrate projects/ investments. At Lawfields, we pride ourselves in understanding the needs of investors, financiers and other key stakeholders in small, medium and large scale projects. With our rich local knowledge, relationships, transactional capabilities and broad-ranging legal skills, we deliver unrivalled integrated cross-sectoral legal services. Our aim is to efficiently provide commercially effective solutions at every stage of the investment and therefore help our clients take advantage of opportunities while guided from any potential risk.
Lawfields’ principal goals are to be an instrumental part of each client’s success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. Our Firm seeks long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to the client’s legal needs.
We have the right mix of expertise, capabilities and all that it takes to advise and support our clients in their various matters that require business and legal expertise.
Our main pillars include the following:
Our team members have an excellent grasp and understanding of the legal and regulatory framework pertaining to various corporate matters in Tanzanian as well as in the international context. There are no gaps in our knowledge or experience. We have a first-rate multidisciplinary team consisting of highly experienced experts who give advice that is practical, grounded and informed by experience.
The interests of our clients come first. We always carefully examine our relationships with our clients. If we are likely to have any actual or potential conflict of interest, we do advise our clients accordingly. Our integrity underpins the core value of all that we do.
Our philosophy is that the role of a legal adviser is to do more than just providing technical legal advice. We therefore combine analysis of legal issues with a flexible commercial and business-like approach as to how those issues should be addressed. We believe it is the role of a legal adviser to be proactive and participate in the commercial and financial discussions, and not merely advise on compliance, liability and risk.
Every transaction presents unique demands. We therefore work closely with our clients to understand their business objectives and approach to their deals. We then analyze their needs and develop legal strategies to operate on. At all times we aim at providing services which are consistent with our clients’ commercial requirements and long term needs. We provide immediate, concise and timely advice, which is directed at identifying the simplest and most cost effective route to achieving our clients’ objectives.
We emphasize and clients rightfully expect good results. For that reason, our Firm employs innovative, pragmatic strategies and hard work to ensure that our clients’ legal needs are met. We recognize that our success depends on close coordination with our clients, therefore, our lawyers work collaboratively to set objectives, develop budgets and conduct periodic review sessions to measure our progress against those objectives.
HEAD OFFICE
2nd Floor, T.D.F.L Building, Ohio Street
P. O. Box 35970, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
ZANZIBAR
Plot No 559, Kiembe Samaki, Nyerere Road,
P.O. Box 1342 Unguja West “B” Zanzibar
