Sadock D Magai

Practice Areas

Sadock Magai is Managing Partner and Head of the Banking and Finance Practice at the firm. He brings over 35 years of experience in the financial services sector. He is widely regarded for his depth of expertise across transactional banking, corporate finance, debt capital markets, restructuring and insolvency, receiverships, and banking regulatory compliance.

Sadock regularly advises and represents domestic and international banking and financial institutions on complex secured and unsecured lending transactions. His experience spans syndicated lending, project finance, personal property security structures, derivatives, and equity finance. He is particularly valued for his ability to structure bankable, risk-aligned financing solutions in regulated and high-value transactions.

He has extensive experience advising both local and international clients on cross-border project finance, syndicated lending, public-private partnerships, and regulatory compliance matters. Sadock has led numerous transactions involving multi-jurisdictional legal frameworks, where he oversees legal structuring, due diligence, and the negotiation of sophisticated finance documentation. His role often includes coordinating local and international counsel, managing conditions precedent, and delivering robust legal opinions under both Tanzanian and English law. Clients consistently rely on his strategic oversight, technical precision, and ability to drive transactions to timely and commercially effective close.

Career

Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and all courts subordinate thereto (except primary courts)

Professional Memberships

Tanganyika Law Society

East Africa Law Society

Work Highlights

• The Ghanaian government with respect to the provision of legal advisory services related to the Ghana roads public-private partnership (PPP) capacity-building project;

• The Somalian government with respect to the provision of legal advisory services related to the Somalia Production Sharing Agreement Toolkit project;

• The Tanzanian government through the Electricity Water Utility Regulatory Authority, on a transactional, legislative and practical approach to PPPs and the development of an energy toolkit;

• The Tanzanian government for the Bagamoyo Port and Export Processing Zones (EPZ) project;

• As project counsel for the Bagamoyo Eco-Energy project, in the development of sugarcane plantations;

• As project counsel, the sponsors of a USD300 million cement plant in Tanzania; and

• A local bank in the restructuring of a USD55 million trade finance facility involving a local commodities company.

Languages Spoken

• English

• Swahili

Experience

• The Ghanaian government with respect to the provision of legal advisory services related to the Ghana roads public-private partnership (PPP) capacity-building project;

• The Somalian government with respect to the provision of legal advisory services related to the Somalia Production Sharing Agreement Toolkit project;

• The Tanzanian government through the Electricity Water Utility Regulatory Authority, on a transactional, legislative and practical approach to PPPs and the development of an energy toolkit;

• The Tanzanian government for the Bagamoyo Port and Export Processing Zones (EPZ) project;

• As project counsel for the Bagamoyo Eco-Energy project, in the development of sugarcane plantations;

• As project counsel, the sponsors of a USD300 million cement plant in Tanzania; and

• A local bank in the restructuring of a USD55 million trade finance facility involving a local commodities company.

Education