Botswana Youth Chess Championships

The Botswana Chess Federation held the Botswana Youth Championships on the 25th March 2017 where Thuto Mpene, aged 8 (of the DLG Young Talent Sponsorship Programme) came in second with two silvers after battling seven rounds in the under 10 boys segment. Each game was played by Swiss System for 60 minutes per player without …

Lessons for Attorneys from the 2017 Oscars- Crisis Management

Caroline Desai, COO of Desai Law Group, drew upon her previous experience as an MBA lecturer and CEO of New Capitol Cinemas to provide an in house training seminar on crisis management. Using case studies ranging from the Johnson and Johnson Tylenol  Murders to #Deleteuber, the seminar explored the rapidly changing landscape for companies with …

Malwelwe Primary Shoe Campaign

DLG’s Graphic Designer, Deepali Dave, gave an In-House presentation to the DLG staff  introducing DLG’s collaboration with Operation Starfish for the Shoe Campaign for Malwelwe Primary School in Kwaneng District. The presentation used photography as a call to action. DLG staff will be participating in the shoe distribution in Malwelwe on April 8th. Deepali Dave …

Power Purchase Seminar

On 10 March 2017 Desai Law Group had its first in-house seminar on Power Purchase Agreements (“PPA”). The seminar was conducted by Angelica Bojosi, a partner in the Corporate/Commercial Department. The seminar provided a practical insight into the dynamics of a PPA and the components which make up the agreement, specifically looking at who are …

Desai Law Group Attends 2nd Annual BSE Listings & Investment Conference

On 9th March 2017, the Botswana Stock Exchange hosted its 2nd Annual Listings & Investment Conference themed: “The BSE As A Gateway To Raising Capital”. The overall objective of this conference was to open up the BSE to the business community including bringing together private companies (with the potential to list on the BSE), listed …

DLG Appoints a Business Development Manager:

Desai Law Group is pleased to announce that it has appointed Amanda Evans, Business Development Manager. Amanda previously held positions of Executive Assistant to the CEO and Client Relations Manager at EOH Consulting and Property and Asset Management (part of a real estate group) respectively. She holds a BCom in Marketing and Management from Monash …

Desai Law Group has joined the Africa Legal Network

We are pleased to announce that as of 1 March 2017, Desai Law Group has joined the Africa Legal Network (“ALN”)  as its Botswana member. ALN is an extensive alliance of Africa’s top tier and most dynamic, independent and ambitious law firms that have come together to change the future of legal services on the …

2017 Junior School Individual Chess Championships

The Botswana Chess Federation has  informed us that Thuto Mpene aged 8 (of the DLG Young Talent Sponsorship Programme) has qualified for the finals of the 2017 Junior School Individual Chess Championships as he has taken position one in the Country! The event is to be held in Letlhakane this year where DLG will be …

BIG WIN

Desai Law Group acted for Motor Centre Botswana (the largest Toyota dealer and distributer in Botswana) in a successful tax appeal against the Botswana Unified Revenue Service before the Court of Appeal of Botswana (Botswana’s highest court), that set aside a multi-million Pula additional tax assessment (January 2017).

BSE Listings Conference launch

On 9 February 2017, Desai Law Group attended the launch and media briefing of the 2nd Annual Botswana Stock Exchange Listing Conference which is to be held on 9 March 2017, with them theme “The BSE as a gateway to raising capital.” Desai Law Group is an associate sponsor of the conference and was represented …