Profile

Tafadzwa Pasipanodya is a partner in Foley Hoag LLP's international litigation and arbitration department and chair of its Africa practice. She has represented sovereign States from all over the world before international courts and arbitral tribunals in State-to-State and investor-State disputes concerning a broad variety of issues, including mining, hydrocarbons, the environment, human rights, infrastructure, the law of the sea, and territorial boundaries. She also represents foreign States in U.S. federal court proceedings.

Tafadzwa was named to Africa's 30 Arbitration Powerlist by Africa Arbitration Academy, Africa Arbitration and the Association of Young Arbitrators, and has been ranked by Latinvex as one of the top 100 female lawyers working on Latin American matters. She is also recognised by Who's Who Legal: Arbitration and The Legal 500: USA and Latin America.

Tafadzwa currently serves a member of the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") Court of Arbitration, Vice President of the African Society of International Law, and a member of the American Society of International Law Executive Council.

Bars and Court Admissions

• New York
• Washington DC

Languages

Shona, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese.