At RBGLP, our attorneys are fully aware of the need for legal advice to be compatible with the complexities of corporate and commercial activities and local business realities. With in-depth understanding of local legal systems and regulatory regimes together with local business culture and practices, RBGLP offers clients comprehensive assistance in designing, conducting and evaluating international corporate, commercial and financial services.

A distinguishing element of the real estate business in recent years has been the rising complexity of the structures used to own, develop, and finance real estate.

You need counsel that understand the many tools and approaches necessary to balance risk and return and maximize tradability in the financial markets. Our real estate and leisure industry experts understand them – in some instances, they developed them – which enables us to assist our clients in creating value, sharing risk, enhancing returns, and mitigating tax expenses via an ever-growing array of unique and complicated structures. Additionally, we are unique in that we can call on market-leading, cross-border teams in all of the necessary disciplines: banking, mergers and acquisitions, real estate corporate finance, tax, funds, securitisation, derivatives, litigation, and asset finance, as well as environmental, construction, planning/zoning, and other real estate-specific expertise.

Businesses of all types need operating space that is leased on reasonable terms and at a reasonable cost, is well-located and well-managed, adequately equipped, and ecologically friendly. We are market leaders in terms of the typical real estate specializations necessary in this industry.

Our expertise in the hotels and leisure sector includes hotel acquisitions and dispositions, acquisition financing, bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, hotel management agreements, including sale and leaseback or sale transactions, construction and development, real estate finance, and property litigation.

RBGLP has advised domestic and international corporations, private equity funds, banks and financial institutions, industrial firms, state-owned enterprises and government departments. This has given us extensive experience advising across various industry sectors, including real estate and construction, engineering, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, mining, energy, pharmaceuticals and transport, among others.

In addition, our advisers have wide-ranging experience providing services to fully secure market entry in areas such as.

Incorporation and set up

We help foreign investors navigate Zambia’s legal and regulatory maze from incorporation to meeting various regulatory requirements in order to set up shop in Zambia. Our profound knowledge of the Zambian legal and regulatory landscape together with our good relationships with government and quasi-government agencies means we will do all the heavy lifting while you concentrate on your expertise which is to run your business and increase shareholder value without attracting the wrath of any regulatory agencies because we will have you covered.

“Experienced Attorneys Aggressive Representation.”

Trademarks

RBGLP advises clients on registration and renewal of trademarks, service marks and trade names across the region. We also handle transfer of such registrations and advise clients on trademark protection and enforcement issues.

Copyright

Copyright law is evolving across the region and we are able to assist our clients with the protection of copyright within the parameters of the existing legal provisions.

Patents

We advise clients on patent registrations, where available, throughout the Zambia.

Licensing

We advise our clients on the drafting and registration of intellectual property licensing agreements where available.

Since inception, RBGLP has offered our clients proven, in-depth and technical industry expertise in Zambia and beyond. We provide our clients with seamless, integrated, and solutions-oriented services on the full scope of real estate and property projects throughout the region and wider afield, including infrastructure development and construction projects, hospitality, retail, agriculture, and mining

Hospitality

Acting on behalf of international investment and development companies, luxury hotel chains, and various investors, our advisers have acted on many prominent projects and developments both regionally and internationally. Our experience includes investment and licensing, legal and tax structuring, management and operating agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, payment flows and exit arrangements.

Retail

We regularly advise international direct selling and direct marketing companies, luxury goods companies and others on all aspects of their investments, from market entry, business establishment, mixed property development, project structuring, intellectual property matters, product registration, licensing, and other related matters.

Agriculture

We have unparalleled expertise in devising, structuring, completing, and successfully implementing large-scale agricultural and agribusiness projects (both cultivation and processing), including rice, rubber, jatropha, palm oil, teak, sugar plantations, refining and processing plants, and attendant infrastructure. Our familiarity with the region’s legal and business climate means that we are uniquely equipped to advise on all aspects and types of projects, legal risks and mitigation, regulatory regimes (licenses and applications), and tax and customs optimization. We regularly advise on economic land concessions, financing and operations, joint ventures, long-term leases, sales, purchases, land security and company structuring as well as multi-state and cross-border transactions..