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D.M Ambao Advocates is a niche practice law firm based in Nairobi with a branch in  Kajiado with an excellent reputation in conveyancing ,human rights,labour laws and consultancy circles for its high quality work, integrity, and responsiveness to clients’ needs.

Our practice aspires to offer efficient and cost-effective legal solutions that meet our esteemed clients’ needs in timely and competent manner.

The firm is also big in legal aid and probono work .

 

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IKM has been providing commercial legal services in Kenya for the last twenty five (25) years and has represented a wide variety of clients including: local companies, some of the largest multinational corporations operating in Kenya and abroad, NGOs, banks (local and international), Fortune 500 companies, listed companies , high net worth individuals, hotels, mining and exploration companies and telecommunication companies in diverse sectors in various practice areas particularly in the fields of commercial and corporate law, employment, immigration, tax, real property matters, venture capital, privatization, project financing, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, bank securities, technology and intellectual property.

IKM is a member of the DLA Piper Group, an alliance of legal practices, which includes firms with offices around the globe that are affiliated to members of the DLA Piper Practice but are not themselves members.

We are also a member of Juris East Africa, an alliance of law firms in Uganda (Sebalu & Lule Advocates), Tanzania (Ishengoma, Karume, Masha & Magai (IMMMA) Advocates), Rwanda (Equity Juris Chambers) and Burundi (Rubeya & Company Advocates). IKM has also identified a law firm in South Sudan, Lomoro & Co. Advocates through which it has been channeling its South Sudan assignments.

Our firm also has a well-established network of corresponding law firms in many countries in Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America. Through this network, IKM has access to information and materials on the latest developments in the law throughout the world. The network also provides IKM with the ability to easily serve those of its clients who have multi-jurisdictional issues.

Iseme, Kamau and Maema Advocates

With over 45 lawyers, Anjarwalla & Khanna is Kenya’s largest corporate law firm.
The firm has offices in both Nairobi and Mombasa and is unique in providing a broad range of legal and advisory services in Kenya’s main commercial centres. Numerous Anjarwalla & Khanna lawyers are recognised as leading lawyers in various international legal directories.

The team includes consultants, associates and trainee advocates, some of whom are solicitors of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. A number of partners have been trained in, and have practised with, leading London firms. Anjarwalla & Khanna‘s client base includes banking and financial institutions, private equity funds, venture capital and institutional equity investors, real estate developers, telecommunication companies, project developers and financiers, multilateral lenders, industrial and commercial companies, professional firms as well as government and public organizations both locally and internationally.

The firm continues to be praised for its ability to handle complex transactions and its reputation for exceptional client service. Anjarwalla & Khanna is ranked first in Kenya by various legal guides, including Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers. According to the 2011 edition of IFLR 1000, “It might share the top tier, but Anjarwalla & Khanna is close to becoming Kenya’s sole leading firm.”

Anjarwalla & Khanna was nominated for the award of “Law Firm of the Year” in the Middle East and Africa in the 2010 and 2011 British Legal Awards.

Anjarwalla & Khanna

Mohammed Muigai is a leading law firm based in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Comprising 6 Partners, 5 Associates and with the finest legal and administrative support staff, the firm’s reputation as a market leader derives from a tradition of excellence that spans over two decades. Our areas of practice are wide-ranging divided into four principal departments, namely: Litigation and Arbitration, Conveyancing and Property Law, Commercial Transactions, and Legal Advisory and Consultancy, under which there are several specialist sub-categories.

Our client base is as diverse as it is large involving individuals and corporate entities- both local and international. We understand our clients’ needs and work relentlessly to ensure delivery of innovative solutions, sound representation and pragmatic commercial advice based on our knowledge and experience cutting across business and legal practices.

Our heritage is the consistency and efficiency we have upheld in delivering quality legal services. We take pride in our unwavering commitment to excellence and giving quality personalized services in all matters legal. These are the values that continue to sustain the growth of the firm to achieve even greater heights.

Mohammed Muigai Advocates continues to deliver high quality services to all the clients for whom it is retained. This has received recognitionin a number of respectable international directories including Chambers and Partners Global and Legal500 as well as local publications.

Mohammed Muigai

Kaplan & Stratton is a premier law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services and solutions for domestic and international clients.  The firm has a reputation as one of the leading law firms in the East African region.  International and cross-border work forms an important part of our business.

The firm was established in 1927.  The firm comprises 16 partners, all of whom are Kenyan citizens. Ten partners form the Commercial Department and six partners practice in our dispute resolution department, supported by a team of  over 30 associates.  A number of trainees and para-legal staff make up our full complement.  This makes us the largest legal practice in East Africa.

Our clients are private and public companies from Kenya and abroad, local and international banks, development finance agencies and non-government organisations in all sectors of the economy.  We advise on business law, corporate finance and capital markets, project finance, financial services, banking, power, telecommunications law, infrastructure, transport, manufacturing, tourism, agriculture and horticulture.  We represent clients in litigation and provide dispute resolution advice in all of these areas.  The firm also works as Kenyan counsel for many international law firms and their clients mainly from Europe, North America, Asia and South Africa.

To meet the expectations of our clients we have arranged our practice so as to provide teams of lawyers for large-scale transactions, when needed.  Our transaction teams are led by experienced partners who stay closely involved in all aspects of the matter. In addition to being Kenyan advocates, Kaplan & Stratton provides notary and commissioner services.  A number of our lawyers are English trained, having gained experience as barristers or solicitors before coming to Kenya.  With Kenya’s commercial laws drawing on laws from Commonwealth jurisdictions, and particularly the English system, there is a distinct advantage in having dual-qualified partners and associates in the practice.

Kaplan & Stratton is a founder member of Lex-Africa, a leading network of independent law firms spanning 28 African countries.

Our objective is to provide high quality legal and commercial advice through an efficiently managed professional practice that will facilitate our clients’ business dealings in Kenya and elsewhere in the East African region.

Kaplan & Stratton

Nungo Oduor & Waigwa (NOW) Advocates is a contemporary law firm that is client-centered and epitomizes utmost responsiveness to vast legal issues that affect the economic, social, political and cultural environment of all natural and legal persons.

The firm is keen on offering its clientele opportunity to enjoy proficient legal services that support and provide value to their respective core businesses.

NOW Advocates prides itself with a competent and resourceful workforce that exudes camaraderie spirit styled to provide personalized quality professional services to the Client.

Our offices are located about 3km from Nairobi Central Business District in a quiet serene area of lower hill with ample parking. We have great proximity to most Law Courts and Tribunals.

We occupy two maisonettes that are fully equipped with state of the art facilities including a library and a board room that can host about 20 people.

Our green corporate colour symbolises balanced people who are in harmony with their clientele.

Nungo Oduor and Waigwa (NOW) Advocates

Oraro & Company Advocates, is a top-tier, full service Kenyan law firm. The firm’s areas of strength include Corporate and Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Conveyancing & Securities and Tax. Its partnership includes some of Kenya’s best legal minds and its lawyers are recognized by several international leading legal directories such as Chambers Global, IFLR 1000 and Legal 500.

The firm is well-recognized for its contribution to Kenyan jurisprudence(through its formidable dispute resolution team), work on some of Kenya’s largest deals and its significant contributions to Kenya’s legal profession.  Established 40 years ago, by George Oraro SC (one of Kenya’s top litigators), the firm offers clients on-the-ground insights and a door to the strong business connections it has built locally, regionally and globally.

Oraro & Company Advocates

Hamilton Harrison & Mathews is one of Kenya’s highly acclaimed law firms, with a tradition of excellence dating back to 1902. HH&M has built up a reputation as an innovative, experienced, responsive and highly-skilled firm with the capacity and technical expertise to offer practical legal solutions to both corporate and individual clients.
HH&M has consistently been rated as top tier dispute resolution, corporate and commercial law firm in Kenya by various international legal directories including Chambers Global, IFLR 1000 and Legal 500.
The firm is one of Kenya’s largest law firms with a dedicated team comprised of 14 Partners and 24 Associates who are supported by a team of over 40 legal assistants, administrative and paralegal staff. We offer legal services to clients all over Kenya and have our primary office in Nairobi and a second office in Mombasa.
HH&M provides a full range of legal services to an extensive client base which includes local and foreign companies, individuals, state corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations.

Hamilton Harrison & Mathews

Founded in 1899, Daly & Figgis (‘D&F’) is the oldest law firm in Kenya and a leading full service legal pracitce based in Nairobi, specializing in corporate and commercial law, property law and dispute resolution.

D&F has achieved the reputation of being a solid professional reliable firm with a dynamic set of innovative lawyers who think commercially about legal issues and advise accordingly. The firm has been consistently ranked among the country’s leading law firms by various international legal ranking organizations and publications.

Whilst the firm does not maintain any office outside Nairobi, it has, over the years, developed good contacts and working relationships with leading law firms located in other jurisdictions both within the East African region, the African continent and the rest of the world.

Throughout our history, we have been at the leading edge of Kenyan law, having worked on many of the large and high profile transactions in the region. As a result, we have developed an understanding of the opportunities as well as the issues and challenges facing those doing business in Kenya and how these may be overcome.

In terms of the quality and scope of our legal and commercial expertise, we have particular strengths in a number of fields, including corporate commercial work, involving capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, financing and securities as well as dispute resolution, property, immigration, employment and private client work. We would refer you to our Firm Profile for further details about the firm, the scope of legal services that we provide and our team of lawyers that are dedicated to delivering the very highest standards of service across all our practice areas.

Daly & Figgis

Coulson Harney is a Kenyan corporate and commercial law firm providing legal advice and transaction services to a wide range of international clients and local Kenyan clients. At Coulson Harney our aim is to assist our clients in achieving their objectives as smoothly and efficiently as possible whilst minimising the legal and regulatory risks, both within Kenya and further afield around Africa.

The Firm is ranked in international legal directories such as Chambers & Partners (Tier 1 in 2013 & 2014), Legal 500 (Tier 1), and International Financial Law Review. Coulson Harney is the only law firm in Kenya with three lawyers in Band 1 of Chambers & Partners for Corporate Commercial. We have also earned several accolades such as: Gold Category, World Trademark Review (2015 and 2014), Deal of the year 2012 (Africa Investor), and Cross-Border Law Firm of the Year in Kenya (Global Law Experts 2012).

We have 16 partners and partner equivalent lawyers and a total complement of more than 30 qualified lawyers with work experience in Kenya, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere, drawn from private legal practice, as well as the public and private sectors. We work on Kenyan domestic matters and transactions, and on international and cross-border advisory mandates for a wide range of clients.

The main areas of practice are in corporate and commercial, banking and finance, capital markets, energy and resources, real estate, intellectual property and dispute resolution.

Coulson Harney has sixteen partners, a Director and a wealth of talented senior lawyers and associates with qualifications and work experience in Kenya, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Australia. Our lawyers are diverse and multi-talented  and work on Kenyan domestic matters and transactions, and on international and cross-border advisory mandates for a wide range of clients.

The staff at Coulson Harney are an energetic and enthusiastic group of people who enjoy their work and the clients they work for.  Good humour and a determination to deliver high-quality advice makes for a positive working atmosphere.  We are a modern firm made of seasoned lawyers and eager young professionals.  We are not hidebound by the past but are also wise enough to know that what clients want from their law firm is excellence, efficiency, creativity and integrity.

Our partners are knowledgeable and well-versed in the local legal and business environment.  Through our association with Bowman Gilfillan and the other members of the Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group we seek to expand our ambitions beyond Kenya’s borders – to the East African region and the continent beyond.  We have worked on projects in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroon.

At Coulson Harney our aim is to ensure that the legal advice and services we provide to our clients is not only accurate and relevant but is also delivered in a friendly and client-oriented manner.  Our advice seeks to be:

• pragmatic in the sense that it needs to fit in with the solutions you are looking for.  Thus we aim to develop creative approaches to protect, and enhance, your interests
• accurate  in so far as it must be based on a sound legal footing – in order to ensure that the arrangements you enter into are legally correct and accurately reflect the commercial position you are seeking
• results-driven – through finding the right answers and structures to meet your requirements even when the solution is not obvious
• efficient – by ensuring that you are kept informed of how the matter is progressing
• modern in the sense that we review our service delivery against the benchmark of the expectations of multinational clients and the standards of major international law firms cost effective.

Our size, resources, combination of breadth of skills, communications, facilities and geographic spread enable us to handle the largest and most time-critical transactions when required.  We are fully aware of the need for legal advice and legal structures to be compatible with the needs of modern commerce, industry and finance.

Coulson Harney