Benedict Ishabakaki

Benedict Alex Ishabakaki is an Executive Partner and an Advocate of the High Court and Subordinate Courts thereto. B (Hons) of the University of Dar es Salaam and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice of the Law School of Tanzania, he attended several short causes in project management and human rights in USA, Netherlands and Sweden. Ishabakaki is a vibrant and strategically calculating lawyer, carrying with him an aura of aggressiveness and tactical solutions to complex issues.

He brings to the firm a large clientele of International and Local Corporations. He has consulted Large Multinational Corporations in the energy, tourism and the ICT and Telecoms sectors on enormous capital investment ventures. He is renowned for providing solutions to salvage corporations from their legal ordeals.

Ishabakaki has broad experience on contemporary corporate and commercial issues revolving around Mergers &Acquisitions, Tax compliance and Transfer Pricing, Corporate Management and Restructuring, Project Facilitation & Business Planning, Corporate Real Estate, Insolvency Management and Dissolution of Companies. Benedict has facilitated most of these undertakings on behalf of some of the key players in the tourism and telecoms sectors in the country. He possesses undoubtable influence over majority of the International and Local Non-Governmental Organizations, Societies, Trusts and Clubs, in the country, in regard to legal compliance, litigation, general consultancy and property management.

He has been recommended by majority of these institutions, due to his agility in legally restructuring them amidst the 2019 changes in the law, which affected the being of these institutions. Ishabakaki has successfully litigated and appeared for arbitration on behalf of companies and individuals, on several commercial, economic and general criminal cases in the ICT & Telecoms, Tourism and Extractives sectors amongst others. He has facilitated major plea bargaining deals on behalf of clients facing criminal charges on financial and economic crimes, the major being money laundering.

Having an impeccable ability to pay meticulous attention to detail, capability to decipher issues beyond the horizon and promptness in responding to clients’ needs, has gained him several recommendations and clients in his areas of practice.