Trust Law Chambers

Firm Details:
Managing Partner: Apollo M Nkunda
Number of partners: 5
Number of lawyers: 7
Languages: English, French, Kinyarwanda

Firm Overview:
Trust Law Chambers is considered to be Rwanda’s leading business law firm. It provides world-class legal advice and transaction services to a wide range of international and local clients since 2004. Trust Law Chambers has a track record of providing practical, quality advisory and dispute resolution support to a variety of large high-profile, domestic, regional and international clients. The firm has a team of 12 lawyers whose qualifications and work experience is drawn from both the public and private sectors.

Trust Law Chambers is cited by Chambers Global as “a tier one firm in Rwanda that has transformed Rwanda’s legal landscape,” and for “its extensive contacts within the East African community.”

Four of the firm’s partners have won several professional accolades and are categorised as leading lawyers by Chambers Global. Richard Mugisha is hailed as a Band 1 “ go-to lawyer and a great negotiator.” Sources say he is “revered in the legal community and just knows the solutions to matters” while Apollo M Nkunda is a Band 1 lawyer who acts on a variety of finance transactions and clients praise him as a “practical, flexible and reactive” lawyer. Richard Balenzi is a Band 2 lawyer who draws praise from sources for his “quality of work and understanding of complex situations.” While Moise Nkundabarashi who is also the President of the Rwanda Bar Association is recognized as an "up and coming" lawyer by Chambers Global.

Main Areas of Practice:
The expertise of the firm ranges from corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, capital markets, energy and natural resources, labour and employment, taxation, investment, intellectual property and technology, project finance and litigation.