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Farai has practiced law since 2009, and is presently a partner at Mushoriwa Pasi Corporate Attorneys where he heads the Mining, Energy & Infrastructure Law Department. He specializes in commercial and investment advisory in the energy mining and infrastructure sector and has been involved in high value international and regional transactions in the renewable energy, extractive, and infrastructure development spheres. He has also advised on various corporate transactions in the country and is skilled in the structure and implementation of PPP arrangements.

Mushoriwa Pasi Corporate Attorneys is a Zimbabwean Commercial law practice based in Harare, which provides highly specialised and tailored legal services to its valued clients. The firm is focussed on ensuring seamless transactional advisory and uses a wealth of local industry experience, coupled with international best practice to ensure that solutions are proffered to complex commercial problems.

We have provided advisory support in various energy projects in the area of solar and hydro power and have also advised in infrastructure development and rehabilitation transactions, as well as various aspects of mining investments in Zimbabwe. Our clientele include local and international investors, banks and financial institutions, pension funds, listed companies, mining houses, parastatals and independent power producers. We are mainly active in advising companies and individuals in the following sectors; power generation, tobacco, gold, chrome, lithium and manganese mining.

The firm has specific specialty in;

- commercial and investment law,

- international investment dispute resolution,

- transactional advisory,

- banking, insurance and financial services law,

- energy, mining and infrastructure law,

- conveyancing and notarial practice,

- civil law practice,

- employment law

- Family and estate law

Farai holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Laws in Oil Gas & Mining Law from Nottingham Trent University. He has practiced law since 2009 in a diverse range of commercial environments.

1. Signalling left while turning right. The law of Technology Transfer & African Realities. 1997, a dissertation submitted in Partial fulfilment of the requirements for an LLB degree.

2. The inadequacy of international investment law in balancing trans-boundary investor and developing state interests with focus on regulation of the mining sector in Tanzania, 2017, being a dissertation submitted in partial fulfilments of the requirements for an LLM degree with Nottingham Trent University.

3. Radical Reforms to Zimbabwe’s investment laws. Will this Charm the World? - http://www.mushoriwapasi.co.zw/2020/03/14/radical-reforms-to-zimbabwes-investment-laws-will-this-charm-the-world/

4. New company law legislation in Zimbabwe. what you need to know about the changes brought by the Companies and other business Act [CHAPTER 24:31] - http://www.mushoriwapasi.co.zw/2020/03/14/new-company-law-legiclation-in-zimbabwe-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-changes-brought-by-companies-and-other-business-act-chapter-2431/

5. Improving the investment climate – suggestions on legal aspects of public debt management 2019

A case for independence of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe 2019 - http://www.mushoriwapasi.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/A-call-for-the-independence-of-the-Reserve-Bank-Zimbabwe-article.pdf