Moses Nkomo

DNM Attorneys (Zimbabwe)

A passionate, highly motivated law advocate and thought leader, a chronic possibility thinker and avid student of strategy, Moses Nkomo has twenty three years’ experience as a registered practising Investment, Corporate and Intellectual Property attorney in Zimbabwe, and over seventeen years’ experience as a consultant, researcher and resource person on various areas of law and policy. Currently he is the Senior Partner of DNM Attorneys, a commercial law firm with a special interest in corporate law, trade and investment, intellectual property law and strategy. He is also the Deputy General Secretary of the Africa Business & Law Experts (ABLE) Network, a pan-African Network of Business lawyers.

He has been a lecturer of Intellectual Property law and Insurance law at the University of Zimbabwe since 2007, also lectured Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights for the WIPO funded Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Law at Africa University from 2011 to 2013. He is a regular resource person for the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). 

He is the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Legal Support Centre at the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Law, and was recently appointed as a Councilor for the Council for Legal Education’s Continuous Professional Training program. He is the Founder and Lead Consultant of IPIQ Business Solutions (Private) Limited, a business consultancy company registered in 2012.

A 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow in the Business and Entrepreneurship Track, mentored by leading business Professors at Yale University and interned with Microsoft Corporation. He is an approved mentor for the Law Society of Zimbabwe and has mentored dozens of lawyers who wish to set up their own practices since 2020.

Moses is a holder of a Bachelor of Laws Honours Degree (LLBS), a Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property (MIP) and an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration (EMBA) and is working towards a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree with the University of South Africa.