Addington Chinake

Addington Chinake has been in practice since 1993, and has been with Kantor and Immerman legal practitioners since 1994. He became a Managing Partner in 2000, and is currently a Senior Partner. He has specialised in corporate and commercial law, including mining and competition law and all aspects of tax law and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and capital raising.

Addington Chinake is a former Non-Executive Director of four ZSE listed counters; and a trustee of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.  He is a resource person to the Law Society of Zimbabwe, and a recognised mediator. He is a published contributor to the Zimbabwe Independent Newspaper (Annual Quoted Companies Survey), and The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Hand Book. He has acted for a significant number of Fortune 100 Companies who have operations in Zimbabwe and the region. He was involved in a number of significant FDI transactions, including handling a bank merger on the ZSE, the biggest single FDI investment by an investment bank in a Zimbabwean company and a number of other multi-million dollar acquisitions, which included disposals by foreign companies of equity in ZSE listed entities and greenfield mining projects.

Addington is a sought after Zimbabwe counsel by certain international law firms who are involved in Zimbabwean transactions and thus he has continued to attract important corporate mandates in Zimbabwe and within the SADC region.