Msiya Kindiano

Practice Areas

Corporate & Commercial

Insolvency & Restructuring

Dispute Resolution

Competition

Career

Msiya Kindiano is one of Botswana's leading corporate and commercial legal advisors, with the focal points of his practice being in corporate law, insolvency and restructuring, corporate and commercial risk management, commercial advisory, tax advisory, competition, conventional dispute resolution and alternative dispute resolution (local, cross-border, and international).

Msiya is a fierce competitor with a creative mind, who is highly experienced and active across the spectrum of corporate and commercial law, and has been described in Chambers as being "tough, but fair".

He has been a practicing attorney since 2006 and has years of experience in providing custom advice and bespoke solutions representing both creditors and debtors, with respect to complex commercial interests and concerns, which have spanned the length and breadth of industry, in the Southern African Development Community and the European Union. He has headed and been part of leading multi-disciplinary teams, which have provided tailormade solutions to complex commercial issues and disputes, drafting pleadings and petitions, providing and executing strategic advice, and appearing before judges, arbitrators, mediators, adjudicators, Boards of Tax Adjudication et cetera, in the interests of his clients.

He has acted for, advised, and assisted a broad international client base, which includes multinationals, non-government entities, governments, state-owned entities, insurance houses and financial institutions, over a wide range of matters, with local, cross-border and trans-national components.

In addition to his technical acumen, Msiya’s strength lies in his ability to leverage his experience across various corporate and commercial law disciplines to understand risk and provide strategic, tailormade creative solutions to complex multi-tiered issues, always with an eye on safeguarding clients’ reputations, short and long-term commercial interests, and resources.

Professional Memberships

2006 Law Society of Botswana

2006 Admitted as an attorney, conveyancer and notary public

2008 Fellow member of the Botswana Institute of Arbitrators

Publications

Conventional & Alternative Dispute Resolution in Botswana & The Experience of COVID-19 (15 December 2022)

The Role of Insolvency Practitioners in Botswana (15 March 2023)