Our legal team is trained to look beyond ordinary legal preparation work and provide the most appropriate legal solutions for your business while always acting with the highest integrity and concern for your reputation. RSM can provide international services through a dedicated and experienced in-house legal team and close collaboration with legal professionals across all relevant jurisdictions. When required, we call upon other RSM colleagues to provide specialist tax and financial support for client projects. Our range of services include:

  • In the course of doing business an entity is required to be compliant at all times. At RSM, we shall ensure that your entity is aware of local compliance matters.
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  • Foreign loan registration
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  • Obtaining general business license from the relevant authority
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  • Obtaining sector specific license including from the Engineer Registration Board, Contractors Registration Board, Tanzania Bureau of Standards, licenses from Bank of Tanzania, and Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority
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  • Obtaining work and residence permit for expatriates
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  • Processing of all types of visas and passes
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  • Registration with the Personal Data Protection Commission
  • We provide company secretarial services to ensure that the company/entity adheres to the local laws.
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  • Filing of annual returns
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  • Amending Memorandum and Articles of Association
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  • Preparation and filing of statutory returns relating to changes of directors, registered office, change of name, increase and decrease of company capital, allotment of shares and debt to equity
  • Filing of Ultimate Beneficial Ownership information with the regulator
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  • Preparation and maintaining of company registers of directors, company secretaries, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners
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  • Preparation of share certificates, and maintaining minute books
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  • Attending board and annual general meetings (including preparing the agenda and taking minutes of meetings of the board and shareholders).
  • Well-structured and commercially savvy corporate and commercial arrangements are key to the success of your businesses. Addressing potential issues from the start can help you manage your risk and safeguard your interests, as well as avoid any potential penalties or disputes.
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  • At RSM, our legal advisers will help enhance the value of your business by collaborating closely with you to ensure that you close the all-important deals and are equipped with value adding commercial solutions.
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  • Establishing all forms of companies including attending to issues of capitalization.
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  • Drafting and registering memorandums of incorporation/articles of association, and drafting shareholder agreements, drafting director, shareholder and committee resolutions.
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  • Advising on corporate governance issues including the establishment of boards and committees, board charters, terms of reference, rules and codes of conduct.
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  • Negotiating and drafting all forms of commercial agreements, including all forms of outsourced agreements, distribution and agency agreements, licensing agreements, loan agreements, transport and logistics agreements, lease agreements, land sale agreements, building agreements.
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  • Negotiating and drafting all forms of commercial agreements relating to financing arrangements and banking agreements
  • Your people are your most important asset. However, RSM also understands that the right people should be employed in the right position in order to deliver growth. In addition, the economic shifts, a demand for global mobility and a flexible workforce, plus constant changes to compliance and legislation, mean that employment related challenges for multinational businesses are greater than ever.
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  • At RSM, our legal advisers can work with you to provide unique solutions across a wide spectrum of employment related matters.
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  • Negotiating and drafting all forms of employment contracts, employment policy manuals including specific policies dealing with clients' specific concerns, documentation relating to the disciplinary process
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  • Negotiating and drafting other employment contracts to include exclusivity, non competition and confidentiality provisions
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  • Assisting with the structuring of salaries and/or commission structures
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  • Advising on and dealing with the registration of companies in the social security system
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  • Undertaking HR due diligence in respect of HR related matters
  • In the world where intellectual properties (trademarks, copyrights, patents, industrial designs) are recognized and protected, we help our clients with registration, renewal, licensing, assignments, change of names, and enforcement of the protection of intellectual properties.
  • Acquiring properties, shares or partnering requires more than the naked eyes and ears. We ensure that we extend our experience in collecting and assessing all available information for an entity to making the right decision before finalizing a deal or transaction.
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  • Physical verification
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  • Obtaining reports from the relevant authorities
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  • Review of all entity documents; and
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  • Advising the best way forward.
  • Mergers and acquisitions are the cornerstone of the RSM legal service offering. RSM understands the need for businesses to merge or to acquire other businesses, as a mechanism to gain market share, to enter new markets or to invest in new technologies. These transactions become complex where cross-jurisdictional deals are concerned.
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  • At RSM, our legal advisers can assist you through each stage of the transaction. From deal inception to business integration, we are there to help turn your business growth ambitions into a reality.
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  • Ensuring deal execution and delivery
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  • Post merger integration
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  • Deal structuring
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  • Negotiating and drafting all agreements relating to a merger and acquisition, including sale and purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, non disclosure agreements, funding and investment agreements, providing extensive support to the seller or the purchaser on the transaction.
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  • Managing or providing support to the multidisciplinary RSM team on the transaction
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  • Carrying out legal due diligence in respect of the target entity.

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