Karabo Motsamai

Karabo Motsamai is a Senior Legal Advisor at Dentons, specializing in Health Care Law with a focus on the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry. He advises on advertising and marketing of medicines, anti‑counterfeit strategies and litigation, competition law, intellectual property (trademarks and patents), mergers and acquisitions, product liability, and regulatory compliance.

Karabo regularly advises on regulatory matters such as medicine pricing, supply and distribution of medicines, medical devices and cosmetics, and clinical trials. He has cross‑border experience across multiple African jurisdictions including Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Notable matters include advising a South African pharmaceutical company on raising expansion capital through senior debt; executing due diligence of Medipost Pty Ltd and its pharmaceutical wholesaler subsidiary on behalf of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC); advising Lorenz Life Sciences on market entry for pharmaceutical software; advising on trademark disputes and registrations; and briefing on compulsory licensing, product liability, and patent infringement matters.

He holds a BSc with a Physiology major (2001), a BSc Honours (2002), and an LL.B (2016) from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.