The Current Managing Director, Tanzania International Arbitration Centre ( TIAC )

TIAC Managing Director, Mr. Alphonce Marandu Gura, has worked with the Tanganyika Law Society for 10 years prior to his appointment at TIAC. Key to his role at TLS, he served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer for more or less the entire 2014. Mr Gura has been an influential figure in the TLS Senior Management for the past 8 years, immensely contributing to the design and implementation of two generations of strategic plans, designing of programes that defined a new TLS image to its stakeholders and individually taking the key role in TLS fundraising and business development initiatives.

He has written, edited and contributed to hundreds of TLS publications. Mr. Gura has also been a key drafter of a major regulations for the regulation of the Law Society business notably the TLS Election Regulations and TLS Chapter Regulations among a handful of other regulations. Mr Gura posses a unique blend of knowledge in businesses development, policy and law reform programming, judicial accountability advocacy as well as regulations of legal professionals and Professional Associations.

Mr. Gura is a registered member of the Bar in Tanzania, as well as East Africa Law Society (EALS) and the Southern Africa Development Community Law Association (SADCLA). He has in the past taken an a leading role for the negotiation of the position of the TLS in Cross Border Legal Practice in East Africa from 2012 to 2015. Mr. Gura is particularly active in the SADCLA where he is currently serving in its various committees including the Pro bono Committee, Human Rights Committee, A special committee to popularize AFSA/SADC seat of Arbitration, and the SADCLA Young Lawyers Network.
Mr. Gura holds LL.M degree from University of Dar es Salaam, with a particular focus on public and private international legal practice,” Major regulations and rules for regulating conduct of Law Society Business

Meet the Guest Speaker For the Young ADR Professional Dialogue ( Adv. Asha Sabrina Ayoub )

Dear All

Kindly checkout an outstanding biography of our Guest speaker for the YAP Dialogue

Asha Sabrina Ayub (known as Sabrina) is a lawyer qualified in Mainland Tanzania (Advocate), Zanzibar (Advocate) and England & Wales (Solicitor) and arbitrator ( NCC / TiArb ), specializing in mining, petroleum, power and other regulated industries, local content, construction and projects, banking and finance, insolvency and restructuring, corporate/M&A

(including private equity, competition and joint ventures), employment and other areas of business and commercial law.
Sabrina was a Partner at Bowmans Tanzania, a full-service law firm in Dar es Salaam that won the prestigious IFLR1000 award of ‘Tanzania Law Firm of the Year’ for 2020. Prior to that, Sabrina trained and practiced as a Solicitor at Taylor Wessing in London City then worked as a lawyer at Clyde & Co’s offices in London, later on Tanzania and Anjarwalla & Khanna / ATZ Law Chambers ALN offices in Tanzania and Kenya.

Adv. Sabrina was a former Group Head of Legal for a pan-African construction group owned by a private equity house.
Legal directories (Chambers, IFLR1000 and Legal500) rank Sabrina a top-7 (within top 20) Tanzanian lawyer for business law in 2021. Sabrina was the only lawyer ranked as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ for 2020 by Legal500 in Tanzania.

In 2021, Sabrina was named one for Tanzanian ‘Women Leaders 2021’ by IFLR1000’s worldwide guide to leading female lawyers.
Sabrina is a recognized expert in Tanzanian business laws and her contributions include consulting for the Tanzanian President’s Delivery Bureau (PDB) and the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation TPSF on streamlining Tanzanian business laws as part of the Tanzania Development Vision 2025 ‘Big Results Now!’ (BRN) initiative. Given her expertise, Sabrina frequently moderates for investment facilitation at Government dialogues (including moderating the UK / Tanzanian Ministerial Dialogue and also the USA / Tanzanian Ministerial Dialogue in 2019) or speaks at keystone industry or regional conferences such as the Tanzanian Government’s SADC Industrialization Week conference when Tanzania took the SADC helm in 2019.

In 2020, Sabrina was invited by the Ministry of Minerals of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania to be the only private practice Tanzanian lawyer to speak at its February 2020 Tanzanian Mining Conference, and Sabrina spoke and moderated sessions at the 2019 Tanzania Oil Gas Congress organized by the Ministry of Energy and ATOGs.

Sabrina is regularly an expert presenter to lawyers and businesses across Africa, including for African national and international bar associations and trade groups in Tanzania.


Adv. Sabrina has a Bachelor of Laws degree (Hons.) from the University of Southampton, where she won an academic award and was President of the University Law Society, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law, London. Sabrina has also completed various specialist legal courses including oil and gas law at the renowned Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in Scotland, on project finance and PPPs with the International Project Finance Association (IPFA) and sections 1 to 3 of the Certified Public Secretary qualification in East Africa.

Dear Young Professionals don’t plan to miss this golden opportunity to meet with the prominent figures from various number of Professionals who will tremendously impact your career path

Time: From 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Host: Edith Michael Mtweve (Adv)

Fee: TZS. 30,000/=

Venue: TLS Wakili House

This Dialogue is open strictly to Young Lawyers and other young professionals from other fields.

Kindly find the below modality of payment and registration.

Bank Name: NMB Bank

Account No: 24810004193

Account Name: Tanzania International Arbitration Centre

Branch: Bandari

Please be informed that you will be required to show proof of payment by submitting deposit slip through email address: mmagoma@tls.or.tz

For assistance in payment and registration please contact:

Victor Mbuligwe +255 783 464 608

Email: vmbuligwe@tls.or.tz

Other professions are encouraged to participate.

For any query kindly contact Adv. Magreth Magoma through 0772 831483

CALL FOR TIAC MEMBERSHIP AND PANELS OF NEUTRALS APPLICATIONS

Please be informed that the Tanzania International Arbitration Centre (TIAC) is inviting all accredited ADR practitioners who wish to become members of the Tanzania International Arbitration Centre to apply for TIAC Membership and Panels of Neutrals.

All applications for being a Panelist shall be accompanied with the Curriculum Vitae and certificate of accreditation of the applicant for TIAC consideration.

Please send your application, together with your Curriculum Vitae, and Certificate of Accreditation via info@tiac.or.tz  or through agura@tiac.or.tz copying mmagoma@tls.or.tz

Kindly note that these applications are open until 31st December 2021.

Kindly find the attached Membership and Panels of Neutrals Regulations and Application Forms

For any Inquiry please call Magreth Magoma (Adv) through 0772-831483

Kindly download the attached document;

Young ADR Professional Dialogue ( YAP Dialogue )

Dear all

Kindly be informed that there will be a Young Alternative Dispute Resolution ( ADR ) Professional Dialogue scheduled on Saturday, 2nd of October 2021 which will be conducted by the Tanzania International Arbitration Centre (TIAC). This YAP Dialogue holds a theme “Arbitration practice opportunities for young professionals in Tanzania”

Objective: The dialogue aims at enlightening young professionals from various fields on the vast opportunities that can be harnessed from arbitration practice in Tanzania as a growing economy. The dialogue focuses on guiding young professionals on the viable ways to develop arbitration practice niches that have the potential of expanding the practice in their respective professions.

The Perks of Attending the Dialogue: Attendees will get the opportunity to become members of Young TIAC Network. This is a network of young practitioners in all professions who aspire to become national and international ADR practitioners mentored to become the best in the field by the most experienced practitioners in ADR.

Time: From 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Host: Edith Michael Mtweve (Adv)

Guest Speaker: Asha Sabrina Ayub (Adv)

Fee: TZS. 30,000/=

Venue: TLS Wakili House

This Dialogue is open strictly to Young Lawyers and other young professionals from other fields.

Kindly find the below modality of payment and registration.

Bank Name: NMB Bank

Account No: 24810004193

Account Name: Tanzania International Arbitration Centre

Branch: Bandari

Please be informed that you will be required to show  proof of payment by submitting deposit slip through email address: mmagoma@tls.or.tz

For assistance in payment and registration please contact:

Victor Mbuligwe +255 783 464 608 

Email: vmbuligwe@tls.or.tz

 Other professions are encouraged to participate.

For any query kindly contact Adv. Magreth  Magoma through 0772 831483.

PHYSICAL AND ONLINE MASTERCLASS ON PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ARBITRATION LAW IN DODOMA

There will a physical and online masterclass  scheduled on 23rd  to 28th August, 2021 by the Tanzania International Arbitration Centre (TIAC) in Dodoma.

Course Title: “PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ARBITRATION LAW”

Time: From 09:00 am – 04:00 pm

Presenters:

1.      Dr. Clement Julius Mashamba (Advocate, Former Solicitor

General of the United Republic of Tanzania)

3.      Ms Madeline Kimei (Principal Director at iResolve)

This training will be moderated by  Mr.Alphonce Gura (Advocate & Managing Director TIAC)

All participants will be awarded with a Certificate of Participation

Fee:

Physical :TZS. 500,000/=

Online :     TZS . 300,000/=

Venue:  Royal Village hotel

This training is open to lawyers and other professions.

We encourage all those who are interested in attending the training to register and make payments before 22nd August 2021.

Kindly find the below modality of payment and registration.

For TLS members kindly visit

https://wakili.tls.or.tz/login

For other Professions

Bank Name: NMB Bank

Account No: 20110048257

Account Name: Tanganyika Law Society

For assistance in payment and registration please contact:

Victor Mbuligwe +255 783 464608 email: vmbuligwe@tls.or.tz

For more details kindly contact Adv. Magreth  Magoma through 0772 831483