Mohammed Muigai LLP

Managing Partner: Geoffrey Imende

Deputy Managing Partner: Emmanuel Wetang’ula

Senior Partners: Mohammed Nyaoga, Professor Githu Muigai, S.C

Partners: Guto Mogere, Georgiadis Khaseke, Wanjirũ Ngige, Naomi Wangari, Gabriel Mwangi, David Angwenyi, Muigai Githu

Associates: Sharon Buyanzi, Bella Onyango, Dennis Mungai, Wambui Githu, Ronald Makokha, Batula Abdi, Biko Angwenyi, Dennis Nkarichia, Carolyne Kaunda, Eva Aremo, Patrick Nguri, Husnah Julius, Aluoch Owuora, Nimo Adan, Michael Maina

Languages: English, Kiswahili

Firm Overview:

With over thirty five years experience, Mohammed Muigai LLP has grown to be known as a leading law firm in Kenya. Progressively, the Firm has gained an exceptional understanding of the Kenyan legal, commercial and regulatory environment that has enabled it to anticipate client needs, make provision for them and ultimately serve them better.

The Firm has four complementary practice groups; Dispute Resolution, Corporate Advisory & Commercial Transactions, Consultancy & Legal Advisory, and Banking, Finance & Real Estate. Through the collective expertise and experience of the staff across the board, the Firm is able to successfully complete assignments and transactions.

Drawing on its industry experience, commitment to excellence as well as understanding of the Kenyan market, the Firm is devout in providing quality and innovative legal solutions. For this reason, the Firm as well as members of the team have gained recognition by international legal directories such as Chambers and Partners Global.

Today Mohammed Muigai LLP has eleven partners, twelve associates, seven legal assistants and a dedicated team of thirteen administrative and support staff that ensure value is delivered to clients. The team has varied educational and professional backgrounds with exposure to different legal systems that helps the Firm find innovative and efficient solutions to client

challenges.

Main Areas of Practice

1. Dispute Resolution Practice:



As many of our clients are seeking to maximize opportunities in an increasingly competitive market place, civil disputes are inescapable. In addition, with evolving regulatory requirements, increased corporate scrutiny as well as an expanding scope of transactions these disputes are progressively becoming more difficult.

We offer seamless, efficient and professional legal service in litigation and arbitration before both domestic and international courts and tribunals. With a hard-to-rival success rate, we remain the firm to consult in respect of complex litigation and arbitration matters within the East African region.

Our partners are recognized authorities in public procurement law, constitutional and administrative actions, security realization, media law, tax law and intellectual property law. This practice group has been involved in the first ever dispute referred to the Petition Committee under the Public Private Partnership Act of 2013, arising out of the 960MW Coal project in Lamu.

Commercial & Corporate Transactions:

Mohammed Muigai LLP offers a wide range of commercial transactional and advisory services including undertaking due diligence, negotiating restructurings, advising on public listing, rights issues, asset sales and financing through single lender or syndicate loans.

Our diverse involvement in various transactions has enabled us to develop expertise in Corporate Governance and Compliance, Corporate Restructurings and Privatizations, Energy and Infrastructure, legal due Diligence of Private and

Public Entities, Banking Law and Financial Services and Media, Communications and Technology Law.

We also provide ongoing and updated compliance advice to our corporate clients to help them minimize operational and regulatory risks. As such, our approach has always been to have an acute understanding of our regulatory environment so that we may provide the best practice codes relevant to corporate governance and responsibility.

Our clients rely on our advice to help understand, assess and execute the most complex transactions. As a result, they value our adaptive and collaborative approach as well as our goal to deliver upper-level service. This enables us to earn their trust and build a lasting relationship.

Banking Securities & Real Estate:

The Firm offers market-leading advice that helps our clients take advantage of growth opportunities in the real estate industry. We lead our clients through the property life process from undertaking due diligence, advising on development conveyancing, preparation and perfection of commercial and residential leases, security documentation, procuring completion documents, registration formalities and ancillary services. We also advise on the settlement of Trusts for various charitable purposes.

Relied upon by developers, owners, private and institutional investors, corporates, lenders and underwriters across the region, clients utilize our team’s knowledge to develop intricate structures and innovative solutions for their transactions and disputes that ultimately translate into successful outcomes.

Legal Advisory & Consultancy:

Mohammed Muigai LLP's long-standing industry experience as well as the diverse clientele has enabled us to acquire knowledge and acute understanding of our commercial environment to provide our clients with legal advisory and consultancy services across a variety of sectors.

We understand that legal and institutional reform is an important component of any government agenda especially in remodeling and integrating legislation in order to promote the development of a sector. In addition, the private sector will often seek to understand or participate in the legislative process and require legal advice to achieve this. We meet these needs by advising government, donors and private organisations.

We also provide substantive and exhaustive Legal Audits that yield practical proposals and solutions to an array of clients operating in different sectors. We have had experience in conducting Audits for a wide range of entities including; State Corporations, Regulatory Authorities, Financial Institutions and Telecommunication Companies.

We have adopted a classical approach that ensures we have clear understanding of the policy behind proposed reforms and its translation into legislation. By appreciating the interests at play, identifying relevant stakeholders and allocating appropriate resources to the project we find that our approach assists us to attain project objectives effectively and

efficiently.