Eva V. Jhala
Managing Partner
LLB, LLM (Edinburgh)
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS & LEGISLATIVE DRAFTERS
Legal counsel.
Legislative expertise.
Advising businesses, governments and regional bodies on commercial matters, public policy and the laws that shape them.
Areas of practice
A Lusaka practice.
A regional perspective.
We work where business, government and the law meet.
Our practice brings together commercial legal advice and legislative drafting, supporting private sector transactions and public sector policy and institutional reform.
Areas of practice
Advice for the decisions, transactions and regulatory obligations that matter to your organisation.
Contact the firmBusiness, finance and investment
Corporate law
- Company registration and company secretarial services
- Corporate compliance and due diligence
- Corporate documents, shareholder agreements and governance documentation
- Procurement reviews and telecommunications law
- Project finance documentation
Energy
- Hydro and thermal project documentation: concession, EPC, power purchase, off-take, connection, operation and maintenance, direct and implementation agreements
- Shareholder, loan, escrow and security documentation for energy projects
- Review of feasibility, power evacuation, environmental and social impact studies
- Generation, supply and distribution licensing and permits
Infrastructure and public private partnerships
- Concessions and operational agreements
- Structuring, negotiating and drafting PPP agreements, including build own operate and build own transfer models
- Legal due diligence for infrastructure projects
Mining and commercial law
- Mining rights applications, prospecting and exploration licences, and acquisition of mining rights
- Mining development and implementation agreements
- Investment promotion and protection agreements
- Commercial drafting, from single contracts to inter-related agreement suites
Banking, property and fiduciary services
- Conveyancing, leases and contracts of sale
- Banking and financial services advisory, acquisitions, mergers and restructuring
- Security documents: mortgages, debentures, floating charges and assignments
- Administration of deceased estates, executorships and testamentary trusts
- Corporate trustee services, including employee share trusts
Insolvency, receivership and business rescue
- Business rescue, liquidation and winding up
- Receiverships and administration of insolvent estates
- Creditor meetings, creditor disputes and related labour matters
Employment and workplace
- Employment contracts, restraint of trade, secondment, consultancy and agency agreements
- Workplace policies, codes of ethics and conduct, disciplinary codes and complaints procedures
- Disciplinary inquiries, restructuring, redundancy and retrenchment
- Forensic and special investigations, in support of forensic audit firms
Intellectual property
- Registration of patents, trade marks and designs
- Licence, franchise, confidentiality and technology transfer agreements
Disputes
- Litigation in the Subordinate Court, High Court, Industrial Relations Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court
- Arbitration, mediation and conciliation
- Debt collection and labour disputes
Government, regional and public bodies
Legislative drafting
- Bills, amending legislation and subsidiary legislation: regulations, rules and by-laws
- Constitutions and constitutional amendments
- Domestication of international and regional treaties
- Model laws and harmonisation of laws for regional integration
- Bill analysis and legislative critique
Policy and regulatory reform
- Regulatory impact assessments and legislative gap analyses
- Policy development, including cross-cutting issues of gender, climate change, youth and disability
- Institutional and parliamentary reform
- Administrative and public law advice to national and local government and public entities
Environment and water
- Environmental and water regulatory compliance
- Environmental impact assessments and statements
- Water rights, impoundment and dam permitting
- Forestry, wildlife, air quality and conservation law
International and regional law
- Drafting and review of international agreements
- Trade, investment, competition and consumer protection law
- Public procurement systems and law
- Aviation law
- Data protection law
Training in legislative drafting
- Courses in legislative drafting, regulatory impact assessment and instructions for legislation
- Law in development and contemporary issues in legislation
- Parliamentary procedure and practice
Select an area to explore our services.
A CORE AREA OF OUR PRACTICE
Legislative drafting
From policy intention
to workable legislation.
The firm’s practitioners draft primary and subsidiary legislation across most areas of economic and social regulation.
National legislation
Bills, amendments, regulations, rules, by-laws and constitutional instruments.
Regional integration
Model laws, harmonisation and the domestication of international and regional treaties.
Policy & institutions
Regulatory impact assessments, legislative gap analyses and parliamentary reform.
Professional training
Legislative drafting, instructions for legislation and parliamentary procedure and practice.
Explore legislative subject areas
companies and corporate insolvency; banking, securities and commodities exchanges; credit and secured transactions; public procurement; civil aviation and air navigation; water resources, water supply and sanitation; energy regulation and electricity licensing; solid waste; tourism, hospitality and wildlife; trade marks, patents and designs; health services and medicines; statistics; agricultural marketing and commodity trading; persons with disabilities; gender-based violence; constitution making; and parliamentary services.
Practitioners
A practice grounded in legal scholarship and experience.
Our partners hold the designations AHCZ and AHSZ.
Richard Jere
Partner
LLB, LLM, Dip. Legislative Drafting, Dip. Ed.
Peggy Hlazo
Partner
LLB, Dip. Legislative Drafting, Dip. Library Studies
Chama Mutambalilo
Partner
LLB, LLM, Dip. Accounts
Martin Lukwasa
Partner
LLB, LLM, MA Philosophy
MANAGING PARTNER
Eva V. Jhala
AHCZ, AHSZ, LLB,
LLM (Edinburgh)
Eva Jhala joined the drafting department of the then Ministry of Legal Affairs in 1981 and later served as Chief Parliamentary Draftsman and as Permanent Secretary of that Ministry. She has practised as legal consultant and legislative drafting counsel at BEMVI Associates since 2006.
She has served as Member and Chairperson of the African Legal Support Facility, hosted by the African Development Bank, and is an accredited insolvency practitioner with the Patents and Companies Registration Agency. She has taught legislative drafting, parliamentary procedure and law in development across eastern and southern Africa, including as Director of Faculty at the International Law Institute.
She has undertaken legislative and advisory assignments in Botswana, Egypt, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Sudan and Uganda.
Career & qualifications
- 1978
LLB with Merit, University of Zambia
- 1979
Legal Practitioners Qualifying Examination, Law Practice Institute. Member of the Law Association of Zambia since 1979
- 1981
Senior Fellow Certificate in Legislative Drafting, Legislative Drafting Institute, Canberra. Joins the drafting department, Ministry of Legal Affairs
- 1984
Fellow, Government Legal Advisers programme, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
- 1987
LLM with honours, Legislative Drafting, University of Edinburgh
- 1989 to 1996
Chief Parliamentary Draftsman, Ministry of Legal Affairs; in charge of the revision of the Laws of Zambia (1995 edition)
- 1996 to 2001
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Legal Affairs
- 2001 to 2002
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training
- 1998 to 2007
Director of Faculty, International Law Institute (Uganda) and the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education
- 2006 to date
Managing Partner, BEMVI Associates Legal Practitioners
Professional memberships
Law Association of Zambia; International Bar Association; SADC Lawyers Association; Commonwealth Legislative Draftspersons Association.
Contact the firm
For enquiries about our practice or a legal matter,
please contact our Lusaka office.
Visit
BEMVI Associates Legal Practitioners5225/M Musikili Road
New Kasama, Lusaka
P.O. Box 50603, Lusaka, ZambiaFind our office
Office hours
8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Language of practice: English.