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RBG LAW REVIEW Volume I · Issue 1 · January – March 2026

RBG Law Review — Volume I, Issue 1 (Q1 2026) Legal Intelligence for Business & the Profession

The inaugural edition of the RBG Law Review takes the measure of a quarter of unusual legal consequence for Zambia. Within the space of ninety days, the country has absorbed the Companies (Amendment) Act 2025, entered a new mining regulatory architecture under the Minerals Regulation Commission Act and the Geological and Minerals Development Act, and adjusted to the Bank of Zambia's Currency Directives mandating Kwacha settlement for all domestic transactions. Between them, these reforms have redrawn the framework within which corporate, banking, and resources work is now done in the Republic.

Across seventeen articles spanning Energy, Resources & Infrastructure; Corporate Advisory; Dispute Resolution; Banking & Finance; Superior Court Highlights; and The Legal Profession, the Review addresses the questions these developments pose for the people who must act on them — directors and general counsel weighing beneficial ownership obligations; transaction teams structuring M&A under the new 8 percent property transfer tax; banking lawyers drafting Kwacha-first agreements; arbitration practitioners watching the rise of the Lusaka International Arbitration Centre; and the wider profession contending with judicial reform, the growth of the domestic bar, and the place of artificial intelligence in Zambian legal practice.

The RBG Law Review is published quarterly by Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners. Readers are invited to engage with the analysis and to write to the editorial team with comment, correction, or proposals to contribute.