Biography

Gonjetso is an ardent telecommunications lawyer but he also has vast general litigation experience and expertise. His main areas of interest are telecommunications transaction services, telecommunications mergers and acquisitions, spectrum access and use, authorizations and licensing, foreign ownership approvals, regulatory compliance, content provision, infrastructure deployment, and outsourcing of mobile network management.

Gonjetso has experience in several advice areas and dispute resolution in telecommunications contracts, drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, litigation, mediation, arbitration, regulatory compliance, and general consultancy services.

Gonjetso graduated from the University of Malawi in 2018. He was subsequently admitted to practice law in the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, the High Court of Malawi and all Courts subordinate thereto, in the same year. He has currently finished his postgraduate LLM studies in Information and Communications law at the University of the Witwatersrand. His LLM focused on aspects of Telecommunications Law, Privacy Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, and Cyberlaw. Aside from these qualifications, he has also attended continuous development training with the Link Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was awarded a certificate of competence in Broadcasting and Digital Media Policy Regulatory Trends. He has also attended training at the University of Capetown in Effective Legal Writing.

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Experience

Gonjetso is a Communications Law Specialist demonstrated by his training and his actual hands-on skillset as below:

SITA

- Offered advice on regulatory requirements for registration of radiofrequency licences for Chileka Airport.

Afrimax Limited

Advisory services to Afrimax on telecommunications contracts employment, and regulatory compliance.

Timveni Radio

Litigation services in relation to frequency spectrum allocation disputes.

Access Communications Limited

Litigation services for disputes arising out of telecommunications infrastructure services contracts.

FDH Financial Holdings Limited

Rendering advisory, debt collection, and dispute settlement services.

MyBucks Banking Corporation Limited

Providing debt collection services and enforcement of bank loan guarantee schemes.

Malawi Fertilizer Company Limited [MFC]:

Drafting and advising on construction and financing contracts between MFC [Employer] and SR Nicholas Limited [the Contractor] and a project engineer for a fertilizer loading bay in Liwonde in Malawi with a total value of over USD 6 million.

Cement Products Ltd:

Challenging the registration of an arbitral award in the following arbitration conducted in London.

Transglobe Produce Exports Limited [TPE]

Advising on banking and finance transactions of TPE together with its subsidiaries/associated companies including but not limited to Tayub Corporation Limited, Afri-Brands Limited, Tayub’s Furniture, and Mbabzi Estates Limited on off-shore borrowing, local loans structuring and venture equity finance.

Anchor Industries:

Legal advisory and debt collection services.

Blue Deebaj FZ Company and Africa Fertilizers Ltd:

Litigation services over contractual disputes.

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Practice Area

• Cpmmunication Law

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Membership

 Member, Malawi Law Society
 Member, International Bar Association
 Prospective member, International Institute of Communications

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Prior and Present Employment

 Public Relations Officer- Ritz Attorneys at Law
 Heal of Legal-Dispute Settlement Services-Ritz Attorneys at Law

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Education

Law Degree from the University of Malawi, 2018
LLM in Information and Communications law

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Languages

• English
• Chichewa