The firm has extensive experience in a wide range of conveyancing and real estate related transactions that include but are not limited to:
- Structuring, preparing and registering (where applicable) of property purchase and sale transactions, charges, leases, licences, restrictive covenants, sectional property transactions, subdivision and amalgamation of land, change of user, extension of leasehold titles, construction projects, powers of attorney, caveats and cautions, amongst other.
- Undertaking due diligence inquiries such as official searches and site visits in order to verify the validity of title and any encumbrances on the property.
Procuring exemption from payment of stamp duty for transfers of property to family owned companies. - Negotiating and drafting leases, facility management agreements, service charge agreements, car park agreements, leases and tenancy agreements, amongst others,
for the management of property.Advising clients on the use of professionals such as surveyors, physical planners and engineers, and make recommendations based on previous work experiences with such professionals.
In the real estate field:
- We advise real property developers on the legal, regulatory and compliance requirements incidental to their ventures.
- We have previously acted for several real estate developers in negotiating purchase of land for construction of housing estates, negotiated and prepared joint ventures between land owners and developers/financiers, advised developers on acquisition of finances from financing institutions and prepared relevant documents to facilitate the financing, incorporated development and management companies for the housing estates and undertaken the conveyance procedures for sale of the resultant housing units to end users.
The firm provides its local and international clients with a broad array of services relating to extractive industries (mining, oil and gas) ventures that include:
- Negotiating, preparing and reviewing exploration and extraction agreements for mining, oil and gas companies.
- Advising mining, oil and gas companies on various legal, regulatory and compliance requirements that govern their operations.
- Negotiating, preparing and reviewing property and conveyance transactions for mining, oil and gas companies such as purchases, transfers and leases.
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing technical services and financing agreements.
- Preparing and reviewing marketing, sales, storage and transportation agreements.
- Preparing and processing work permits and passes for the employees and contractors of the mining, oil and gas companies.
The firm offers legal services solutions in a variety of commercial and corporate matters that include;
- Incorporating or registering various business and non-business entities such as private or public companies limited by shares, companies limited by guarantee with or without a share capital, business names, partnerships, limited liability partnerships (LLPS), non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), co-operative societies, social welfare associations, trusts and foundations.
- Offering guidance to business and nonbusiness entities n legal, regulatory and compliance requirements in relation to their operations.
- Undertaking due diligence through official searched on business and nonbusiness entities.
- Preparing and reviewing commercial agreements relating to diverse business transactions and activities such as licensing, provision of goods and services, company restructuring, share purchase, joint ventures agreements, distribution and agency.
- Advising clients on mergers and acquisition transactions and corporate restructuring.
- Providing company secretarial services to corporations.
- Advising business entities on the best practices in corporate governance, amongst others.
The firm provides legal advisory services relating to the incorporation and management of pension schemes and provident funds in order to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and regulations.
The firm provides diverse legal services relating to family, succession and probate matters such as:
- Advising on the legal and regulatory framework relating to the various types of marriages in Kenya.
- Assisting clients in proceedings for grant of letters of administration and probate.
- Drafting wills and other testamentary instruments and bequests.
- Advising clients on the legal and regulatory framework relating to property inheritance and succession.
The firms provides its local and international clients with various legal services relating to employment and industrial relations issues such as:
- Drafting employment contracts and negotiating and drafting collective bargain agreements. • advising on domestic and international employment laws, rights and obligations.
- Preparing staff policy handbook and human resource manuals, advising on recruitment, dismissal, retrenchment and redundancy, advising on compliance with health and safety requirements at the work place and advising on trade unions and labour relations.
- Guiding clients on the immigration processes in kenya including but not limited to: acquisition of dual citizenship, acquisition of work permits, acquisition of alien cards and personal identification number (pin) certificates by foreigners, amongst others.
- Advising and representing clients in employment litigation and alternative dispute resolution, amongst others.
The firm provides a wide range of legal services and solutions that have the objective of protecting, safeguarding and ascertaining the intellectual property rights of their international and local clients that include:
- Preparing applications and registering trademarks, patents, industrial designs, utility models and copyrights.
- Advising on and preparing intellectual property rights related agreements such as licences and contracts relating to assignment, distribution, sponsorship, agency, branding, endorsement and payment of royalties.
- Advising on the protection of trade secrets and drafting and reviewing nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements.
- Advising clients on plant breeders’ rights and preparing and filing applications for the grant of such rights on their behalf.
- Advising clients on diverse issues relating to emerging legal, regulatory and compliance requirements under information and communication (ict) law, media law, entertainment law and sports law.
- Advising clients on issues relating to e-commerce, cyber-crime and other internet related aspects of intellectual property rights.
- Advising on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights at both the national and international levels and representing clients in tribunals and courts.
- Advising clients on diverse forms of intellectual property and ict rights and obligations under regional and global legal instruments such as the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (trips).
The firm has the objective of resolving clients’ disputes in the most efficient, timely and cost-effective manner. It is committed to competently providing the following services to corporate and individual clients;
- Prosecuting and defending legal proceedings of all forms of commercial and civil disputes and claims in courts and administrative and statutory tribunals.
- Brokering negotiated and out-of court settlements in order to circumvent unnecessary litigation and minimize costs and disruptions to business and commercial operations of clients.
- Representing clients in arbitration and mediation proceedings and providing negotiating and conciliation services in order to promoted timely, efficient and cost-effective settlement of disputes.
The firm offers tax law related services that are incidental to various commercial and business ventures such as:
- Advising both corporate and individual clients on tax implications of various transactions and compliance requirements.
- Guiding clients on the appropriate investment or transaction to achieve tax efficiency;
- Handling of clients’ tax disputes in tribunals and courts
The firm provides a variety of legal consultancy and advisory services relating to public law, rights and obligations to state corporations, agencies and institutions, county governments, civil society organizations and governmental organizations. The services include but are not limited to:
- Drafting and review of legislation.
- Advising on the international and domestic legal regime relating to human rights, constitutional rights and good governance.
- Conducting compliance and legal audits on state corporations, agencies, institutions, non-governmental organizations and county governments.
The firm offers banking and financial services to banks, financial institutions and saccos. The services include, but are not limited to:
- Structuring, drafting and reviewing loan and credit agreements and security documentation in the form of charges, debentures, deeds of guarantees and indemnities, and discharge of charges.
- Debt collection and recovery services.
- Advising banks and financial institutions on various legal, regulatory and compliance requirements that govern their operations.
Our lawyers have extensive knowledge in the drafting of concession agreements, licences, leases, facility management agreement, interalia under the public private partnership legal regime in Kenya.