Business, Corporate, Maritime, Shipping, Admiralty, and International Trade Law Services
BOJOMA Law Group® delivers premier commercial and corporate law advisory services across Tanzania, guiding local and multinational corporations through every facet of corporate governance, structural compliance, and complex commercial transactions. Our comprehensive corporate practice expertly manages company incorporation, registration, and statutory governance through the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA). We ensure strict fiscal alignment with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA)—encompassing VAT, Corporate Income Tax (CIT), and PAYE frameworks—alongside managing social security and employee benefits compliance with the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and related workplace regulatory authorities. By combining deep knowledge of Tanzanian regulatory frameworks with sharp business acumen, we help companies remain compliant, strategically positioned, and legally safeguarded across all commercial operations.
Our corporate team specializes in facilitating high-value organizational and financial restructurings, competently guiding entities through economic adversity, debt restructurings, and large-scale syndicated lending transactions. We provide sophisticated counsel regarding the implementation of corporate governance codes, ownership changes, corporate buyouts, takeovers, franchising, disinvestments, and strategic international alliances. For distressed entities, our dedicated team promptly manages insolvency, restructuring, and liquidation exercises, including complex insolvency investigations and high-stakes insolvency litigation. To minimize corporate exposure, we execute thorough due diligence investigations scaled to the scope of each business, delivering strategic legal risk management, meticulous preparation of standard-form agreements, and the drafting of authoritative commercial contracts, shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Furthermore, we advise on sectoral licensing across key ministries—including Trade, Investment, Agriculture, and Construction—and seamlessly support clients navigating the Tanzania Investment and Special Economic Zones Authority (TISEZA) and the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority (ZIPA). When disputes arise, our formidable advocacy team represents clients before all Tanzanian courts, including the High Court of Tanzania (Commercial Division) and the Court of Appeal of Tanzania, as well as specialized administrative tribunals.
Admiralty, Maritime, Shipping, and International Trade Law
BOJOMA Law Group® commands deep, authoritative expertise in contentious and non-contentious admiralty, maritime, shipping, and international trade law matters across Tanzania, East Africa, and global jurisdictions. We deliver sophisticated legal representation to shipowners, charterers, vessel operators, ship managers, cargo owners, consignees, freight forwarders, marine insurers, P&I Clubs, financiers, and international traders engaged in global maritime commerce. Our litigators maintain a commanding presence in maritime and admiralty proceedings, executing actions in rem against vessels, cargo, and freight, as well as actions in personam against commercial counterparties. We regularly secure the arrest of vessels, obtain rapid release orders, and execute urgent judicial relief in high-stakes shipping disputes. Our robust maritime and admiralty capabilities encompass managing ship detentions, judicial sales, maritime liens, and mortgage enforcements, alongside resolving complex claims involving collisions, salvage, cargo loss or damage, charterparties, bills of lading, and freight and demurrage recovery. We expertly handle marine insurance and P&I claims, pollution liability, crew wage and repatriation disputes, shipbuilding and repair conflicts, and limitation of liability proceedings. Furthermore, our formidable international practice excels in international maritime arbitration and the cross-border enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
In Tanzania, BOJOMA Law Group® works in close alignment with key maritime and trade regulators, including the Tanzania Shipping Agencies Corporation (TASAC), the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA), the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), the Fair Competition Commission (FCC), and the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS). We guide global clients through vessel registration, port and customs compliance, specialized regulatory licensing, shipping finance, maritime investment structuring, and international trade trade compliance. Synthesizing legal precision with structural commercial understanding, we resolve complex shipping mandates efficiently and fiercely protect our clients’ assets across major global shipping corridors.
