Corporate & Commercial Law
We practice in among others the following areas of specialization in corporate and commercial law practice:
Corporate & Commercial Law Areas
We offer legally sensitive advice and contractual documentation on diverse forms of financial and capital flows to local and regional financial institutions. As their advisers, we support them in their legal needs in order to organize robust strategies to enforce rights, recover money and assets or defend financial and reputational claims on behalf of our clients.
We have vast and varied experience in the following areas: asset finance, asset management, banking, finance and securities disputes, financial services regulation, general lending, leveraged finance, real estate finance and work-outs, micro-finance and social investments, restructurings and securitizations.
Additionally, we advise on complex corporate finance, syndicated and project finance transactions and have acted for several large, local and international banks on all types of finance transactions. The firm also undertakes a great deal of complex litigation arising out of banking and finance work. We also have significant expertise in providing general regulatory advice to local and international banks and financial institutions.
The legal team possesses extensive regulatory experience and regularly advises clients on banking regulation, insurance regulation, capital markets regulation, securities exchange regulation, capital and liquidity requirements, custody and prime brokerage, as well as marketing and selling restrictions
We have capacity to advise on all aspects of the employment relationship including minimum requirements under the Employment Act, drafting senior to junior level contracts, drafting consultancy contracts, the procedure for termination of contracts and carrying out redundancies, compliance with applicable laws and regulations relating to immigration laws, drafting human resource policy guidelines, restructuring, compensation and benefits issues, confidentiality and restraint of trade clauses in employment contracts as well as advice on immigration aspects of cross-border transfers and hiring.
We advise on the registration of copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial designs andintellectual property assignments for numerous multinational and local clients and also actas local agents to ensure the protection of the intellectual; property rights in accordance with the global WIPO guidelines and Kenyan laws.
We have a dynamic team experienced in handling complex mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, joint ventures and buy-outs of a domestic and cross-border nature with a practical understanding of the legal hurdles that often arise in navigating the regulatory landscape of cross-border transactions. The team engages with specialist technical and industry expertise in the market in order to ensure that
The firm is well equipped to handle competition and merger control applications, abuse of dominance, restrictive trade practices, cartels and other anti-competitive agreements, antitrust investigations and disputes, public procurement and all matters regarding competitive tendering both under Kenyan law and the COMESA Competition Regulations.
When restructuring, insolvency or bankruptcy appears and financial distress threatens a business, rapidly maximizing values is key. Wherever the challenge appears today’s marketplace presents the decision-maker with a complex web of possible outcomes and legal strategies. The firm has tailor made solutions and advice on rescue securitizations, rescheduling of debts and debt to equity swaps and insolvency proceedings.