Firm Overview
ALL ABOUT ARMSTRONGS
Armstrongs is the leading corporate and commercial law firm in Botswana. It is the only
law firm in Botswana Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers. Armstrongs provides its clients with innovative legal and business solutions of a global standard and we are recognised for our pioneering and developmental role in various commercial sectors within Botswana.
Established in 1983, the firm specialises in all aspects of corporate and commercial law including capital raisings, listings, competition law, M&A, debt and capital instruments, mining and resources, energy, privatisations and public private partnerships. The Commercial Department of Armstrongs has a compliment of five lawyers and is headed up by Partner Sipho Ziga.
The firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Department is exceptionally strong and undertakes commercial litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Industrial Court. In addition, the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Department are known as the leaders in the field of arbitration, particularly civil engineering and construction disputes arising from the FIDIC Suite of contracts. This department also has a complement of five lawyers, two of them being Partners John Carr-Hartley and Moemedi Tafa.
“One of the most established and highly respected firms in Botswana, Armstrongs receives abundant praise from all sources” – Chambers, the World’s Leading Lawyers
The departments within Armstrongs :
- The Commercial Department
- The Litigation & Arbitration Department
- The Property & Conveyancing Department
- The Debt Collection Department
- The Family Law & Estates Department
- Employment & Labour Law
Our Vision
With the aim of being Botswana’s preeminent legal firm, Armstrongs continually pushes the boundaries, combining our team’s renowned experience with current best practice techniques to deliver quality, timeous and dynamic legal services around the globe.
relationship Management
client care
Although each Attorney or professional member of staff is encouraged to form their own relationships with clients and key persons within client organizations, we endeavour to ensure that a relationship is maintained with all the professional staff of Armstrongs.
The focus at the firm is on delivery. Our Partners and professional staff pride themselves on being available when required, and making time available, to ensure that our client’s needs are attended to timeously. We regard each client as the most important and valued client. We accordingly ensure that sufficient resources are dedicated to each matter on behalf of a client so that each client is provided with a unique and inspired solution tailored to their individual matter.
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OUR VALUES
GROWTH
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”– Benjamin Franklin
EXPERIENCE
We value the combined knowledge, skill set, and level of professionalism displayed by our team of highly experienced partners and their continuous desire and need to mentor and shape the Armstrongs’ team into dynamic, multi-skilled, and results-driven Attorneys.
TRUST
We offer transparent, unprejudiced, and dependable legal advice.
EXCELLENCE
We don’t do mediocre… our highly skilled team of attorneys pride themselves on being able to provide our clients with only the best possible legal solutions to meet their needs and requirements.
DELIVERY
We are dedicated in our efforts to deliver accurate, professional, and timeous legal solutions to our clients.
CULTURE
Excellence, experience, delivery, growth, and trust are daily values that Armstrongs commits itself to. Creating a culture, rich in such success-oriented values produces a law firm worthy of our reputation.
We Fight For Our Clients
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
We pride ourselves in our ability to participate in initiatives that are aimed at providing assistance to Botswana and her people. The firm actively supports charitable, civic, and community projects with legal and general services.
Some of our most recent donations were made to these worthy initiatives and projects:
- The Lady Khama Charity Trust;
- The Journey of Hope Botswana (Cancer Awareness Programme).
Our Attorneys are also, individually and on behalf of Armstrongs, involved in a wide range of community projects and motivational lectures, an example being the Molaya Kgosi Leadership and Mentorship Program.
As briefly mentioned above Armstrongs is a long-standing sponsor of the breast cancer awareness organisation, Journey of Hope Botswana. This organisation has shown its value to literally thousands of women and men around the country.
Armstrongs’ Family Law attorney, Rita Keevil, devotes approximately 80 hours a year to the Trial Advocacy Programme which is aimed at developing the trial and courtroom skills of young attorneys in Botswana. She has assisted in the training of hundreds of lawyers for no financial gain.
PRO BONO
Work done pro bono publico is work done without payment or expectation of payment. It is a way in which legal professionals can give back to their community and, particularly, to persons of limited means who otherwise would not be able to achieve justice.
Armstrongs contributes significantly in pro bono work and especially through its Family Law Department which undertakes a large amount of pro bono work particularly where the rights of children are concerned.
Effective participation in pro bono work depends on the input of all professionals in the firm and it is gladly given by our various experts in their fields.
Rita Keevil - Armstrongs Family Law Attorney