Scanlen & Holderness — Our people
SCANLEN & Holderness is a premier Zimbabwean law firm offering a full circle of legal services for a local, regional or international clients. Our quality of expertise consistently earns us and our lawyers top ranking in both local and international legal surveys.
Throughout history, Team Scanlen has proudly influenced jurisprudential development in Zimbabwe.
Our continued involvement in landmark cases sets precedents in many areas of law.
We have our hand on the pulse of the law in Zimbabwe and over the years a number of our lawyers have been elevated to the bench of the High Court and Supreme Court including, but not limited to Justice Nicholas McNally, Justice Anele Matika, Justice Joseph Mafusire and Justice Nicholas Mathonsi.
The partnership as at January 2021 consists of the following:
Moyo is the senior partner and chairman of the firm which he joined in 1981 after graduating cum laudi (with distinction) and being named by Butterworths as one of the most outstanding post-graduate law students in 1981.
He provides overall leadership in addition to taking special responsibility for mining, commercial and corporate law.
He is a former president of both the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Southern African Development Community Lawyers’ Association; co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association; former chairman of Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe Limited, a leading commercial bank in Zimbabwe which is a member of the Standard Bank group; chairman of Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited; former chairman of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, board member of Padenga Holdings, board chairman of Dallaglio Investments and board member of Alpha Media Holdings Limited, one of the largest and most diversified media companies and PPC Zimbabwe Limited, the largest cement company in Zimbabwe.
He is one of the leading corporate and commercial lawyers in southern Africa.
During the early days of his career, he taught corporate, commercial and constitutional law.
He successfully completed the Media Law Advocates training programme run by the University of Oxford.