The rise and rise of Moyo
STERNFORD Moyo is the Senior partner and chairman of Scanlen and Holderness which he joined in 1981.
He provides overall leadership in addition to taking special responsibility for mining, commercial and corporate law. He coordinates all activities in the firm and looks after unallocated functions such as responsibility for non professional staff.
His practice is mostly mining, commercial and corporate law related. He has advised financial institutions and loan underwriters in most of the large infrastructure projects that have taken place in post independent Zimbabwe in areas such as forestry, energy, water supply and telecommunications. Sternford has provided advice on navigating Zimbabwe's empowerment laws and has been actively involved in most of the empowerment transactions which have been publicised so far.
Last year he was elected president of the International Bar Association (IBA) . He became the first IBA president of African descent in the history of the 74-year-old organisation.
He succeeded Brazil’s Horacio Bernardes Neto with a two-year tenure through to 31 December 2022.
Moyo has held numerous senior IBA roles, including: council member, management board member, advisory board member and chair of the African Regional Forum, deputy secretarygeneral for Southern Africa, co-chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Trustee of IBA-established entities, such as the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and eyeWitness to Atrocities, and member of the Task Force on Illicit Financial Flows.
Locally he is a former president of both the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Southern African Development Community Lawyers' Association, chairperson of Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe Limited — a leading commercial bank in Zimbabwe which is a member of the Standard Bank group, chairperson of Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited, former chairperson of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and director of Alpha Media Holdings Limited, one of the largest and most diversified media companies, and Portland Holdings Limited, one of the largest cement companies in Zimbabwe.
He is one of the leading corporate and commercial lawyers in Southern Africa. During the early part 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.
He graduated with distinction and was named by Butterworths as one of the most outstanding postgraduate law students in 1981.
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