About
The Legal Team on Your Side
Our practice combines deep local expertise with international standards, enabling us to solve complex legal challenges with efficiency and precision.
Legal Excellence Rooted in Local Understanding
Mak Africa Legal is a modern Tanzanian law firm delivering fast, precise, and business-driven legal solutions. We support clients across corporate, commercial, regulatory, and cross-border matters with uncompromising professionalism and clarity.
Founded in 2018 by Managing Partner Mudrikat A. Kiobya, MAK Africa Legal was born from a clear vision: to offer international investors, corporations, and local entrepreneurs a Tanzanian law firm that combines deep local insight with international-standard legal services. Over the years, we have assembled a team of experienced attorneys each specializing in different legal fields committed to guiding clients through Tanzania’s complex regulatory, commercial, and investment landscape.
We believe in pragmatism, integrity, and partnership. Whether you are entering the Tanzanian market, navigating regulatory compliance, or structuring cross-border investments, we bring clarity and results.
Our Mission & Vision
Mission
To deliver top-tier legal services grounded in professionalism, ethics, and a deep understanding of Tanzanian realities ensuring our clients’ investments, businesses are protected and supported.
Vision
To be the leading law firm in East Africa that global investors and local businesses trust for legal clarity, innovation, and long-term success.
Our Commitment to Clients
At MAK Africa Legal, we don’t just provide legal advice, we build long-term partnerships. We listen to your goals, anticipate legal and regulatory challenges, and design clear, strategic solutions. When you work with us, you get more than a lawyer you get a trusted advisor committed to your success.
Excellence
Delivering legal solutions of the highest caliber, marked by precision, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to our clients’ success.
Ethical Practice
Upholding the highest ethical standards in all aspects of our work, maintaining integrity, transparency, and confidentiality in every client interaction.
Integrity
We believe access to legal expertise is vital for growth, fairness, and economic progress. That is why we engage in pro bono work and community education.
Client-Centric Approach
Putting our clients at the center of everything we do, understanding their unique challenges, and tailoring our legal strategies to meet their specific objectives.
Diversity and Inclusion
Fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment that promotes creativity, teamwork, and a wide range of perspectives to better serve our clients.
Global Perspective
Leveraging our extensive local roots and connections with a deep understanding of business realities in Tanzania and East Africa while offering global insights and solutions.
Our Major Clients
We Treat Our Clients Like Family
Practice Areas
Corporate Secretarial Services
We provide comprehensive Corporate Secretarial Services to local and foreign companies operating in Tanzania. We support clients with the incorporation of new entities, subsidiary registrations, and the establishment of all business forms.
Energy, Oil, Gas and Mining
MAK Africa Legal supports clients at all stages of the investment lifecycle in the Energy, Oil and Mining sector from structuring projects, securing financing, implementing operations, and managing long-term investments.
Immigration Laws
We offer comprehensive immigration support for companies, expatriates, and their families operating in Tanzania. With deep knowledge of immigration laws and practical experience across multiple sectors.
Intellectual Property
MAK Africa Legal provides comprehensive legal services for the registration, protection, exploitation, and enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Our IP practice covers trademarks, service marks, patents, industrial designs, and copyrights.
Reforms & Policy Advisory
We support multinational corporations, international businesses, government institutions, and investors navigating complex reforms in energy, natural resources, land, infrastructure, and economic regulation to minimize risk.
Wildlife and Tourism Laws
MAK Africa Legal has a dedicated team with extensive experience in Wildlife and Tourism Law. We have participated in high-value investment negotiations, hunting block bidding processes, and major multi-million-dollar Tourism litigation.
Tax Law
We offer end-to-end tax advisory services, including planning, compliance, and dispute resolution. Our lawyers and consulting experts stay updated with evolving tax legislation, administrative practices, and the approaches used by tax authorities in Tanzania.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Anti-trust compliance in Tanzania is becoming increasingly complex, with coordinated investigations, strict regulatory scrutiny, and more punitive penalties across key sectors. MAK Africa Legal helps clients navigate this evolving environment with clarity, strategy, and precision.
Succession & Estate Planning
We have a specialized department composed of skilled attorneys who provide comprehensive succession and estate planning services. Our team has extensive experience handling matters at all levels from family negotiations to court litigations and working with large estates.
Attorneys
A team of seasoned attorneys across diverse specialties.
