Mulenga Mundashi Legal Practitioners

Mulenga Mundashi Legal Practitioners

Managing Partner

Michael graduated from the University of Zambia in 1984, top of his class (Professor Bentsi-Etchil Award as Best Graduating Law Student). He has over 30 years post qualifying experience in both the private and public sector. After being admitted to the Zambian bar in 1985, he joined the then Mwanawasa & Company in Ndola, a private law firm as an Advocate handling both civil and criminal litigation.

Between 1988 and 1991 served as part time tutor, University of Zambia Law School. In 1988, he joined the Zambia State Insurance Corporation Limited as in-house counsel where he worked up to 1994. In 1994, he moved to the newly established Zambia Revenue Authority as Head of the Legal Division and was instrumental in the setting up of the Revenue Appeals Tribunal (now the Tax Appeals Tribunal). In that position, he was part of the Authority’s team that advised the Zambian Government on fiscal legislation, including the migration from the Sales Tax regime to Value Added Tax in 1995.  He also participated in the negotiation and drafting of double taxation agreements between the Zambian Government and other states.

Between 1998 and 2003, he served as the first Non-Executive Chairman of the Zambian Revenue Appeals Tribunal, a quasi-judicial tribunal handling tax appeals from taxpayers challenging tax assessments of the Zambia Revenue Authority. Between 2002 and 2005, he was part of a legal team that successfully defended the then President of the Republic of Zambia in the Supreme Court of Zambia in a high-profile case where the results of the 2001 Zambian presidential elections were challenged in court. In 2008, he was honoured with the rank and dignity of State Counsel.

He is past Chairman of Sanlam Life Assurance Zambia Limited, Non-Executive Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank Zambia Plc and British American Tobacco Plc and has also served on the Advisory Board of Konkola Copper Mines Plc. He is currently Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Zambeef Products Plc, Non-Executive Director of Nico Insurance Zambia Limited and Chairman of Lusaka Trust Hospital.

Between 1992 and 1997, he served as Legal Advisor and Vice-President of the Zambia Red Cross Society. Between 1994 and 1997, he served as Honorary Secretary of the Law Association of Zambia. He is also an Alumni of the United States International Visitor Leadership Program.

He is still in practice and Managing Partner at Mulenga Mundashi  Legal Practitioners (MMLP), a firm he co-founded in 1998 after leaving the public sector. Through his firm, he has conducted high level litigation cases before Zambian courts. He has also conducted International Arbitration on behalf of clients before the London Court of International Arbitration, The Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce. Through his firm, he also offers corporate advice to several Zambian corporates and multinationals on a wide range of commercial issues.

English, Bemba

Law Association of Zambia - Member

University of Zambia - 1984

Zambia Institute for Advanced Legal Education formerly, Law Practicing Institute - 1985