Africa Legal Network is a close association of law firms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Rwanda founded by Anjarwalla & Khanna Advocates.

The member firms include Anjarwalla & Khanna (Kenya), MMAKS (Uganda), Ringo & Associates (Tanzania), Musa Dudhia & Company (Zambia) and Kamanzi, Ntaganira & Associates (Rwanda).

Africa Legal Network was created with a view to providing seamless, high quality and efficient legal services to clients in the countries that Africa Legal Network is currently located as well as to those who may from time to time require legal advice in one or more jurisdiction. The association is structurally set up to operate as if it were one firm. It is the only association of its kind in East and Central Africa.

In this regard, the member firms of Africa Legal Network work very closely together. For example, the member firms:

• Share library and precedent resources;
• Operate similar accounting and time recording programmes;
• Undertake joint professional training and development and second staff to each other on a transactional as well as a longer-term basis;
• Operate common marketing and administrative systems; and
• Operate similar quality assurance methods.

Increasingly, the member firms of Africa Legal Network work together on multi-jurisdictional assignments which require the specialist skills in the country of one member firm of a lawyer in another member firm. The member firms also regularly work together on large transactions which require a team of professionals, for example, due diligence exercises and large mergers and acquisitions.

Each member firm of Africa legal Network aims to be a leading provider of corporate and commercial legal services in its country resulting in Africa Legal Network being the leading provider of corporate commercial services in East and Central Africa.