Our Services

CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL PRACTICE

We advise on a wide range of company affairs and advise on diverse corporate needs such as structuring special purpose vehicles, project finance, corporate restructuring, registration, registering foreign companies, structuring limited liability partnerships, franchising, cross border transactions and joint ventures among others.
We also draft a composite range of commercial contracts and also include advise on the tax and other implications of commercial transactions, conducting due diligence investigations and assisting with the implementation of commercial transactions.

COMPLIANCE & LEGAL AUDIT

We advise corporates on regulatory and statutory requirements. We conduct Legal Audits to ensure compliance as well review key documents and records and analyse and identify the clients current and their projected legal needs.
We lay the groundwork for the establishment of an ongoing legal compliance and Legal risk prevention program in order to ensure that the company’s goals, structure and ongoing operations are consistent with any statutory and regulatory requirements for any existing and new and emerging laws.
We also identify the legal issues triggered by changes in strategies, goals or objectives.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

We assess your organization’s governance processes, measure them against best practice, and ensure they meet the needs of the business. Our corporate governance services include Continuing board or board committee Education, Governance and risk oversight, Assessment of corporate governance, Development of corporate governance.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES

We also provide a full range of company secretarial services to ensure that your company is fully compliant with an ever increasing corporate statutory and regulatory compliance regime. The proper maintenance and filing of company records are key in ensuring such compliance.
Whilst our formal responsibility as a Company Secretary under the Companies Act (Cap 486) (the “Act”) is to maintain and keep a company’s statutory records up to date, we, also provide our clients with wide-ranging secretarial services over and above the minimum requirements under the Act, tailor made to meet each company’s particular needs.

The company secretarial services, include but are not limited to: Company formation, Corporate health checks, Management of meetings (board and shareholder meetings), Board Management, Provision of a registered office Address, Provision of requisite Kenyan resident service of process agent and advising on and attending to the registration
of foreign corporations.

In accordance with the requirements of the Act, we make available for appointment as technical Company Secretary, one of our licensed and practicing Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya.
To compliment the company secretarial services provided we provide expert legal advice and practical assistance to companies and their boards of directors on company law issues, corporate practice and other compliance matters.

PROPERTY LAW

We further ensure proper conduct of due diligence, prepare sale and purchase Agreements, Transfers and Securities and offer legal opinions on debentures, mortgages, charges and loan agreements.

EMPLOYMENT /LABOUR RELATIONS

We advise on the complex regulatory and legal aspects of employment and labor law in order to enable full compliance with all the
applicable laws and provisions. The firm is actively involved in drafting and reviewing of employment documentation and advising on a wide range of labor law related queries including;

– General Employment Law;
– Collective Bargaining Issues and Strike Management;
– Disciplinary investigations and inquiries;
– Employment Contracts, Discrimination;
– Legislation;
– Employment Litigation (Labor and High Court litigation);
– Policy development and drafting; Public law employment issues;
– Restructuring and retrenchment planning;
– Pension Law and Employee Benefits;

We file and defend claims in the Employment and Labour relations court.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We provide quality and expert advice on registration and protection of intellectual property in the region and worldwide. This is with respect to due diligence, IP valuation, acquisition of IP and related agreements and partnerships/ joint ventures with an aim to transfer/ share/ development of IP.
We have rendered services to several local and multinational companies across a broad range of sectors and industries including large technology companies, start-ups, telecommunications, etc. on issues pertaining to registered and unregistered IP rights including trade mark, copyright, designs, domain name registration, patent, licensing, and technology transfer matters, and management of IP portfolios.
We also advise and assist clients on: Protection and prosecution of IP rights (including patents, trademarks, design rights, copyrights, domain names, proprietary know how and business processes)

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND RECOVERIES

We provide both Civil and Criminal Litigation services. Also, we encourage our clients to employ alternative dispute resolution Mechanisms i.e. Mediation in Solving disputes being the most efficient and cost- effective ways. We are committed to resolving disputes as
efficiently as possible.
Our main priority is to resolve disputes quickly and effectively with as little disruption to business as possible.

We advise on a wide range of contentious matters, including Shareholder disputes, Contractual disputes and claims, Commercial Disputes, Debt Collection, general disputes around insolvency, Insurance, Personal Injury, Family, Defamation, Land, Employment and Labour, Intellectual Property, Fraud, Probate and administration of estates, LandLord/
tenants, Trademark and copyright Disputes, Regulatory compliance, among others.
We are always geared for rapid response and can be called upon at short notice to resolve large-scale and complex litigation matters.

BANKING, SECURITIZATION & DOCUMENTATION

We act for lenders, borrowers, sponsors and other transactional participants. We give legal advice in the financial sector such as advising on secure lending, security perfection and asset financing and conduct due diligence on securities.
We cover all aspects of transactional finance including term loans, corporate finance, development finance, leveraged finance, preference shares, project finance, trade finance, securitizations and debt restructurings.

CONVEYANCING

We are experienced in handling all aspects conveyancing transactions for individuals, banking institutions, Saccos and Government corporations. We undertake all property related matters ranging from structured property transactions, leases, licences, mortgages
and charges, sales and purchases of land, to more technical areas of Land Law including sub-divisions, amalgamations, exchanges of land, change of User.
We further ensure proper conduct of due diligence, prepare sale and purchase Agreements, Transfers and Securities and offer legal opinions on debentures, mortgages, charges and loan agreements.