Sadock Dotto Magai ( Magai) is the Managing and founding Partner of DLA Piper Africa, Tanzania (IMMMA Advocates). Magai heads the Banking and Finance department at the firm. Sadock garners praise for his unrivalled track record in providing legal advisory services to clients in the banking and finance practice in Tanzania. Prior to founding IMMMA Advocates, he worked within the legal department of the Central Bank of Tanzania (BOT) for eight years as one of its legal advisers.

Apart from advising clients on Tanzania laws, Sadock continues his extensive cross-border practice, whereby he advises clients on transactions related to project finance, oil and gas, and public-private partnerships. Sadock has successfully advised numerous mining companies on financing, and legal and regulatory aspects of their mining operations in Tanzania. As one of the founding partners of IMMMA Advocates, Magai duties and responsibilities include among others, training and mentoring young lawyers joining the Firm. This is well embedded in IMMMA Advocates philosophy of creating best and excellent lawyers in the Tanzanian market.

It is also well within the philosophy of IMMMA Advocates to have a well -organized succession plan for the Firm. Together with other partners, IMMMA advocates have trained and mentored more than one hundred lawyers from Tanzania and offshore from 1997 when it was founded till today. These lawyers have found their places as partners and associates within the Firm, formed owner firms, employed in government offices, in the judiciary and in house legal counsel to companies in Tanzania and offshore.

Sadock has been consistently ranked by the Chambers and Partners, IFLR1000 and Legal 500 as Eminent Practitioner and leading individual. Sadock is also a regular contributor to the “Chambers Global Practice Guide”, a Banking and Finance guide which covers over 200 jurisdictions across the world. Sadock is a member of Tanganyika Law Society, Zanzibar Law Society and East African Law society.