Held on 14th August 2021 – virtually Transcript Thank you for having me today. I am so happy to be here and to contribute to the important dialogue about Venture Capital and Private Equity in Tanzania. We are going to look at the regulatory, policy, and legal environment for PE investments, and in looking at these areas, we will see…
INTERVIEW WITH AMNE SUEDI – CEO SHIKANA GROUP How stable is the regulatory environment in East Africa? It has really not been stable at all and it was inevitable to make changes since some of these legislations for example in Kenya and Uganda were just not in line with the current realities of the industries. Operators found themselves doing online…
Beneficial Ownership Rules in Tanzania Talk of the town in the business community has been the regulations on beneficial ownership in Tanzania1 that operationalized the amendments of the Companies Act, through the Finance Act of 20202 which introduced beneficial ownership rules Undeniably, we live in a world where corruption and money laundering schemes go through financial institutions undetected. Part of…
Over the last several years, the government of Tanzania has enacted significant changes to the legislation governing foreign investment in natural resources—and related dispute settlement mechanisms—with the aim of ridding the sector of the vestiges of “colonial” relationships. Before discussing these changes, and in order to understand the rationale for them, this article first provides the relevant historical context of…
Shikana Law Group is a corporate law firm in Tanzania, with a special focus on investment into the East African Community, as well as the mining and natural resources sector. Advocate and Shikana Law Group principal, Amne Suedi, caught up with Honorable Zitto Kabwe, Member of Parliament of Kigoma Town on his perspective on the amendments within the mining and…
Last week, Amne Suedi, Shikana Law Group’s principal, was delighted to attend the Sports Betting East Africa Forum on 9 April 2019. Shikana Law Group is a corporate law firm in Tanzania, with a special focus on investment into the East Africa Community, as well as the mining and natural resources sector. The Sports Betting East Africa Forum was organized…
Shikana Law Group’s Amne Suedi recently spoke on the topic of sustainability of women-managed laws firms. Shikana Law Group is a corporate law firm in Tanzania, with a special focus on investment into the East African Community, as well as the mining and natural resources sector. Amne Suedi has been practicing for fourteen (14) years, five (5) and a half…
Shikana Law Group is a corporate law firm in Tanzania, with a special focus on investment into the East African Community, as well as the mining and natural resources sector. Amne Suedi has been practicing for fourteen (14) years, five (5) and a half of which were spent in Tanzania. The President of the United Republic of Tanzania The President…