We serve corporations, financial institutions, parastatals, and governments by offering expert and timely legal advice that is needed in order to achieve our clients’ commercial objectives. Our legal team has tremendous experience in banking and finance practice that enables them to provide sound advice in relation to the full range of banking and finance transactions.

• Specific areas of practice within the firm’s Banking and Finance department include;
• Advising on financial promotion issues to maximize marketing opportunities;
• Acting for regulators and governments in developing new regulations and/or reviewing existing legal and regulatory frameworks
• Advising on anti-money laundering legislation and related policies and procedures
• Negotiating, drafting, preparing, and concluding legal charges, mortgages, debentures, guarantees and all types of security documents, including conducting due diligence
• Advising corporations, banks, financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, and government departments on major projects to include project finance
• The establishment and restructuring of businesses to comply with the relevant financial services regulations
• Outsourcing in the financial services sector.

We provide a wide range of services for owners, investors, developers, landlords, property fund managers, and listed property trusts. Our key areas of expertise include property developments, licensing, commercial and retail leasing, option agreements, acquisition and subdivision of residential, commercial, and industrial properties, due diligence, community and private development management, among others.

Our clients range from home buyers, to property investors, large residential and commercial developers. We also assist a variety of retail shop landlords and shop owners in negotiating the best terms for their leases and many licensed venue owners to buy and sell their properties and negotiate leases with landlords.

We deal with matters of all commercial property from drafting and syndication of agreements to joint ventures. We also offer legal services on corporate issues, insurance, banking and financial arrangements, floatation of shares, mergers, takeovers and foreign investments amongst others. We undertake the preparation and registration of securities (charges, preparation of debentures and guarantees, chattels, mortgages and leases) including security realizations and related debt collections.

We support and provide sound advice to companies on several matters such as choosing the legal form of a company, registration of companies, partnerships, subsidiaries, branches, representative offices of local and foreign entities; drawing up the necessary documents for the registration or changes in organizational structure of companies, change of the registered address, shareholders, directors; drafting and registration of company resolutions; liquidation of companies, individual insolvency; legal aspects of corporate finance amongst other areas of corporate law. At all times, we aim to provide easily accessible, professional, quality, timely, and practical legal counsel.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial agreements. Our commercial law practice deals with a wide variety of legal services, including international trade (sale of goods, agency, distribution and franchise); drafting commercial agreements; representing clients in business transactions and negotiations; consumer protection; product liability issues; registration issues connected with trademarks and company names; drafting empowering documents such as commercial powers of attorney; licenses, permits, registration with tax and other relevant governmental organizations amongst others.

The firm is fully computerized and this has greatly contributed to increasing our efficiency and responsiveness to our clients’ needs. We endeavor to be on the cutting edge of technology for good service delivery to our clients.

Our team of advocates has extensive experience and solid track record in insurance practice. We advise on the intricacies and technicalities associated with insurance contracts. Our team of insurance lawyers is dedicated in providing quality insurance advice to insurers, financial institutions, brokers and businesses on transactions in the insurance sector as well as insurance regulatory matters.

Our team of advocates has extensive and reputable litigation experience acquired over many years of handling a wide array of cases-be it civil, criminal, or commercial- and involving different clientele. Our team is actively involved in the provision of legal counsel and representation in various matters that are pending before various subordinate and superior courts across Kenya. The matters are in respect of crimes committed under various laws of Kenya to include the Penal Code, Traffic Act, the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Act,among others.

Our lawyers are keen to have clients restore healthy trading relationships and create certainty where bargains are struck, and as such, we have maintained a team qualified to deal with all forms of ADR mechanisms aimed at achieving a speedy, timely resolution of any commercial disputes our clients may find themselves engaged in. We facilitate resolution of disputes using any form of ADR mechanisms with the overriding objective being to save on time and costs and resolve any outstanding matters expeditiously, fairly and, where possible, restore business, thereby leaving little or no room for further acrimony. Our team is always widely engaged in arbitration, mediation, negotiation, enquiry, conciliation, and judicial settlement.

Our team of lawyers provides different stakeholders with legal counsel on the proposed economic or financial policies, providing them with a detailed opinion of the pros, cons, and the likely effects of implementing each policy on society. We always assist our clients in the formulation of such policies and guide them through their implementation, whilst reviewing the policies to incorporate social changes. Presently, our team is actively involved in providing legal counsel to the various stakeholders on the implications of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) to the country.