Bwalya Chilufya-Musonda

Career

Bwalya Chilufya-Musonda is a partner in Bowmans' Zambian practice.

She specialises in corporate and financial law and has considerable experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, syndicated lending, corporate financing, project financing, export credit financing and debt restructuring.

Bwalya’s expertise extends to tax and competition law, including representing clients (whether merging parties or third-party challengers) in relation to merger decisions made by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

She has a unique blend of private and public experience, having worked as State Advocate under the Ministry of Justice’s Department of Civil Litigation, where she advised and represented the Republic of Zambia in litigation both in and outside the country. She also has a well-rounded view of the insurance sector.

Bwalya is a member of the International Bar Association and the Law Association of Zambia and is an advocate of the Superior Courts of Zambia. She has an LLB from the University of Zambia, an LLM in International Business and Trade Law from the John Marshall Law School, Chicago, USA and a post-graduate diploma in Legislative Drafting from the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education.