Notable Transactions

Our team brings a wealth of top-tier legal experience to every mandate.

Below are some of the notable transactions and complex matters successfully handled by our partners.

Dispute Resolution

  • Commercial Arbitration: Represented a leading construction company in a high-stakes specification fit-out arbitration against an international firm, successfully managing a USD 1.54 Million exposure and a USD 2.15 Million counterclaim.
  • Fintech Litigation: Acted for a major African fintech and telecommunications company in a USD 1.9 Million contractual dispute with a software developer involving mobile app misconfiguration errors.
  • Strategic Settlements: Negotiated a highly complex settlement for a prominent corporate client, minimizing their financial exposure to KES 16.7 Million following an aggressive arbitration claim.
  • Debt Recovery: Executed comprehensive debt recovery strategies for a diversified international engineering and construction group.
  • Property & Tenancy Disputes: Managed contentious commercial property disputes before the Business Premises Rent Tribunal (BPRT) and Rent Restriction Tribunal, protecting statutory tenancies, preventing unlawful evictions, and recovering unlawful landlord deductions.
  • Appellate Criminal Litigation: Secured a full acquittal for a capital offense and successfully commuted a life sentence to a 15-year term in separate, high-stakes proceedings before the Court of Appeal of Kenya.
  • Judicial Review: Halted procedurally irregular criminal proceedings against a client by securing stay orders through a successful Judicial Review application at the High Court.
  • Constitutional Litigation: Enforced statutory land-use compliance via a Constitutional Petition, securing a permanent injunction against illegal development under the Physical and Land Use Planning Act.

Tax Advisory and Planning

  • KRA Dispute Resolution: Successfully salvaged a lost tax objection by driving the matter into Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), negotiating a massive downward review of a combined Income and VAT assessment from KES 77 Million to KES 16 Million.
  • High-Value Tax Mitigation: Represented a corporate client in a major Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) dispute, successfully negotiating a downward assessment review from KES 32 Million to just KES 2 Million.
  • Appellate Tax Litigation: Co-represented a leading multinational beverage company at the High Court, appealing a Tax Appeals Tribunal decision concerning a KES 58.8 Million withholding tax refund on technical fees.
  • EAC Tariff Disputes: Acted as lead counsel for agribusiness and animal nutrition clients in complex High Court Tax Appeals, successfully defending favorable judgments regarding HS Code classifications under the EAC Common External Tariff.
  • Tax Structuring & Deregistration: Guided a multi-specialty hospital through the tax implications of a corporate restructuring and expansion program, including the tax-efficient conversion of KES 100 Million in shareholder loans to equity. Further managed KRA tax demands and successfully navigated statutory requirements for corporate tax deregistration.
  • Legislative Advisory: Advised corporate clients on the impacts of the Finance Bill, Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill, and Tax Procedures (Amendment) Bill, drafting submissions to the National Assembly and assisting in public participation proceedings.

Employment & Labour

  • Executive Separations & Claims: Defended a leading corporation against a high-profile KES 85 Million terminal benefits claim filed by its former CEO. Separately, managed complex mutual separation negotiations for another corporate CEO, handling everything from show-cause notices to the disciplinary hearing to mitigate litigation risk.
  • Wrongful Termination Defense: Defended a global software producer against a KES 21.5 Million wrongful termination suit, and successfully represented a major Kenyan telecommunications company against unfair termination claims following a summary dismissal for unauthorized data access.
  • Corporate Restructuring: Advised a global medical technology company on a complex restructuring exercise resulting in the redundancy of its continental head, successfully defending the subsequent USD 300,000 unfair termination claim.
  • Workforce Realignment: Led an employment restructuring mandate for a private entity, realigning workforce structures while ensuring strict compliance with Kenyan employment legislation to preempt litigation.

Commercial Transactions

  • Cross-Border M&A Due Diligence: Conducted comprehensive dispute resolution due diligence for a multinational telecommunications company in its acquisition of a 99.63% stake in a major East African entity, successfully assessing complex contingent liabilities across Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Education Sector Acquisition: Advised, represented, and drafted comprehensive due diligence reports for a corporate client regarding the acquisition of sixty-five percent (65%) of the share capital and voting rights (on a fully diluted basis) of a leading group of schools from a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and an individual shareholder.

Corporate Advisory & Governance

  • Strategic Restructuring: Advised a top engineering firm and a chain of Kenyan companies on corporate restructuring to streamline operations, optimize transfer pricing, and deliberately engineer operations to minimize future tax and litigation exposure.

Real Estate & Conveyancing

  • Large-Scale Land Acquisition: Represented a leading Kenyan manufacturing company in the complex acquisition of a 110-acre property. This high-value transaction required subdividing the parent title and changing the property’s use from agricultural to commercial for a non-citizen entity.
  • Commercial Leasing: Spearheaded complex lease negotiations on behalf of a leading footwear manufacturer to secure highly favorable terms for a prime retail location while actively mitigating future lease disputes.
  • Community Land Structuring: Directed negotiations with County Attorneys and stakeholders regarding community land ownership, ensuring statutory compliance and structuring agreements to avert regulatory disputes.
  • Collateral Asset Disposal: Advised a Kenyan holding company on the structured sale of a 28-apartment serviced building offered as collateral, navigating a blended share-acquisition structure to resolve potential lending disputes.
  • Government Land Transactions: Structured and concluded a strategic land transaction involving the sale and transfer of property to a County Government, overseeing all due diligence and regulatory approvals.

Wealth Management & Probate

  • High-Net-Worth Succession: Protected beneficiary interests in a highly contested, complex succession dispute involving an estate valued at approximately KES 1 Billion.
  • Estate Planning & Trust Formation: Advised High-Net-Worth Individuals on comprehensive estate planning, including the drafting of complex wills and the registration and incorporation of private trusts to ensure seamless intergenerational wealth transfer.

Regulatory Compliance & Legal Risk Audit

  • Corporate Risk Audits: Conducted a comprehensive legal risk audit for a multinational company, meticulously reviewing commercial contracts and employment agreements to identify legal vulnerabilities and implement robust risk mitigation strategies.
  • Data Protection Compliance & Registration: Advised corporate clients on statutory data protection requirements, successfully managing their applications and securing registration as Data Controllers and Data Processors with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC).
  • Data Protection Enforcement: Formulated legal strategies and opinions for enforcement actions before the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) concerning unauthorized data processing and the statutory Right to Erasure under the Data Protection Act.

Intellectual Property, Media & Technology

  • Trademark & Copyright Registration: Managed the end-to-end registration process for multiple trademarks and copyrights on behalf of corporate clients, providing comprehensive advisory from initial filing and transaction oversight through to post-registration compliance and IP protection.

Family Law

  • Adoption & Custody Matters: Successfully navigated the legal and regulatory frameworks to conclude delicate child adoption proceedings, and negotiated comprehensive Parental Responsibility Agreements to firmly safeguard the welfare and interests of minors.

Immigration & Global Mobility

  • Visa Processing & Compliance: Secured various classes of visas for international clients, facilitating cross-border mobility while ensuring full compliance with Kenyan immigration regulations.
  • Cross-Border Document Legalization: Drafted and executed complex Powers of Attorney for international use, successfully navigating the rigorous, multi-tiered authentication process through the Judiciary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and relevant foreign embassies to ensure validity abroad.
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