
Who we are
Ritz Attorneys at Law is a law firm in Malawi with a multi-disciplinary team of highly-rated lawyers specializing in various areas of law practice. Registered in 2012 the Firm has rapidly grown into the largest law firm in Malawi by headcount. The Firm has strong market knowledge not only in Malawi but also globally, delivering transactional, advisory, drafting, and litigation legal services to a broad range of clients across diverse sectors.
Our core practice areas include Banking, Finance and Fintech, International Trade, International Commercial Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Insolvency and Restructuring, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas, Insurance and Pension, Communications and Information Technology, Public and Administrative Law, Real Estates, Employment and Labour Relations, Public-Private Partnerships [PPP], Domestic and International Taxation, Competition and Anti-Trust, Intellectual Property and Debt Collection.
Practice areas
Intellectual Property
Within this field, we provide:
- Providing strategic advice for creating and protecting your intellectual capital;
- Helping small businesses and international corporations alike leverage their intellectual property rights;
- Providing value addition for existing intellectual property
- We also advise our clients on the commercialization of their intellectual property as
- Our areas of focus include patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, technology law, data protection, and trade secr
- We ofer registration of Patents, Trademarks, and industrial designs, as well as licensing and franchising of said as We also ofer intellectual property asset due diligence and investigation.
Employment & Labor
We are unrivalled in our ability to produce practical solutions for our clients quickly, efficiently and with sensitivity.
We are skilled at handling contentious and advisory issues within the full spectrum of labor law.
Our areas of work include alternative dispute resolution , board reorganization, collective and individual employment litigation,collective bargaining, employment contracts, independent contractors, outsourcing, pension, policy, procedure and handbook development, regulatory advice, restraint of trade, restructuring, reorganization, reduction and retrenchment, industrial strikes.
Business
Our Corporate law practice is headed by Chifundo Ngwira, a lawyer of over 25 years standing at the Malawi Bar. He has litigated, arbitrated and advised on mergers and acquisitions, company reorganizations and insolvency.
Our Lawyers further provide legal service such as monitoring compliance of companies with the Companies Act to avoid unnecessary penalties by the Registrar of Companies. He is available for all manner of company secretarial work. We also offer Legal Compliance Audit Services [LCAS] to our Clients including legal due diligence in preparation for mergers and acquisitions and several other corporate activities.
Bankruptcy & Debt
We help minimize risk to businesses and preserve valuable relationships by negotiating with their debtors and making arrangements for payment of the debt.
If all this fails, however, we are ready and capable to represent you in court. We have the privilege of working with some of the prestigious corporations, financial institutions, and more in Malawi and you rest easy knowing that your debt is under control.
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