Rizwan Desai

Managing partner Rizwan Desai is a leading practitioner in corporate, commercial, and mining law in Botswana. He is widely recognised for his deep expertise in Botswana’s mining and regulatory framework and for advising on high-value, cross-border transactions involving multinational investors. Not only admitted as an attorney in Botswana, he also previously qualified as a solicitor in Scotland, England and Wales, and as an attorney in New York with an LLM from Harvard Law School. Rizwan is Top ranked by Chambers Global and IFLR. He is the former Chairman of the Botswana Stock Exchange, Barclays Bank of Botswana, and current chairman of Botswana Development Corporation. Rizwan is known for combining exceptional technical legal knowledge and strategic commercial insight, while navigating key stakeholder relationships, to deliver practical and commercially effective legal solutions. He is currently lead legal advisor to the Government of Botswana on the proposed Anglo-American Plc divestiture of De Beers Group.

Managing partner Rizwan Desai is a leading practitioner in corporate, commercial, and mining law in Botswana. He is widely recognised for his deep expertise in Botswana’s mining and regulatory framework and for advising on high-value, cross-border transactions involving multinational investors. Not only admitted as an attorney in Botswana, he also previously qualified as a solicitor in Scotland, England and Wales, and as an attorney in New York with an LLM from Harvard Law School. Rizwan is Top ranked by Chambers Global and IFLR. He is the former Chairman of the Botswana Stock Exchange, Barcla...