Expertise

Cross-border Commercial Advisory

The firm advises businesses, investors, and institutions on commercial activity that spans multiple jurisdictions, with a particular focus on East African regulatory and operational environments. Work in this area covers transaction structuring, legal risk identification, governance analysis, and advisory support for cross-border commercial activity involving Kenyan, regional and international counterparties. Clients include corporates, financial institutions, family offices and private investors operating regionally.

Regulatory and Legislative Advisory

The firm advises on regulatory frameworks, legislative compliance, sector-specific regulation, and the governance questions arising from institutional and policy change. The practice operates across the energy, telecommunications, financial services, and technology sectors, among others. Modern regulatory environments increasingly require legal analysis that integrates commercial, institutional and operational dimensions and the firm is equipped to provide it.

Projects and Infrastructure

The firm supports infrastructure, development, and investment engagements on transaction documentation, lender-side due diligence, regulatory coordination, and project-related legal risk. Experience in this area includes work on secured financing structures for infrastructure projects, contractual risk arising from energy and development agreements and legal analysis for cross-border project structures involving parties from multiple jurisdictions.

Dispute and Risk Strategy

The firm provides strategic legal analysis on disputes, institutional exposure, reputational risk and commercially sensitive disagreements. The practice operates at the pre-dispute, advisory, and strategic resolution stages. The focus is not reactive litigation, but structured legal positioning: identifying exposure early, managing risk before it crystallises and advising on institutional protection and decision-making under uncertainty.

AI and Technology Advisory

The firm advises on the legal and regulatory questions arising from artificial intelligence, digital platforms, technology governance, data systems and evolving digital regulatory frameworks. The practice draws on work experience at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, bringing analytical rigour to questions at the intersection of technology, law, and institutional accountability. Work in this area includes AI liability frameworks, platform governance, data protection compliance and regulatory risk for technology-driven businesses.

Private Client

The firm advises individuals, families, and private wealth holders on legal structuring relating to trusts, asset protection, succession, and the organisation of private interests across generations. This work is conducted with discretion, precision, and an understanding that private client matters frequently carry both legal and institutional dimensions that require discretion.

Real Estate and Property Transactions

The firm advises on land transactions, real estate development and property-related legal risk. Work in this area includes transaction documentation, security arrangements, lender-side due diligence on title, and legal analysis for residential, commercial and mixed-use development projects. The firm has advised lenders, developers, and private buyers on property matters in Kenya, including work on large-scale residential developments.

Private Capital and Investment

The firm provides legal support on private equity transactions, investment structuring, and capital deployment in East African markets. This covers legal risk analysis, market entry structuring, transaction due diligence, and regulatory positioning for private investors and fund managers operating within or entering the region. The firm is familiar with the commercial and institutional dynamics that affect investment structures in emerging markets.