Thenji Moyo

Expertise 

Thenji is a Partner and Head of the Employment practice at Gateley Middle East. She is an admitted UK employment solicitor who has been based in the UAE for 15 years, working predominantly on contentious and non-contentious employment matters within UAE local and international firms. 

Thenji is a ranked lawyer in Chambers and Partners with almost two decades’ experience working in employment and immigration law advising private clients and blue chip, multinational, regional, local from all industry sectors. 

Thenji advises on complex employment issues which include global mobility of employees, workplace investigations, cross-jurisdictional matters including temporary assignment, secondment, incentive schemes, cross border engagements. 

Thenji works closely with the employment local litigation counsel to file employment claims at the Dubai Courts via the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation and she is a legal practitioner registered with the DIFC and the ADGM Courts. 
 
Thenji is an adjunct  lecturer at the University of Middlesex (Dubai) and an active volunteer lawyer within various pro bono clinics, which includes the DIFC pro bono clinic and the DMCC Free Zone Mediation Centre clinic. 

Thenji is an appointed board member on the DIFC Employee Workplace Savings Scheme Supervisory Board.

Experience

1. Providing legal advice to various multinational blue-chip companies’ in-house HR and legal teams covering various issues, including recruitment, termination, employment disputes, workplace investigations, corporate reorganisation, mergers and acquisitions, terms and conditions, company policies and procedures.
2. Advising a multinational telecommunications company on the immigration and employment law aspects of global mobility arrangements arising from moving employees on secondment from Europe to various Middle East countries. 
3. Representing both employers and employees on a wide range of complex employment matters involving recruitment, performance issues, termination, discrimination, end-of-service benefit disputes, team moves and restrictive covenants.