We advise government entities and private clients on Kenya's climate change legal and governance framework, including the Climate Change Act, county-level climate legislation, and the country's Nationally Determined Contributions. We have worked directly with county governments to develop climate change laws that have been enacted into legislation.
We advise on the legal and regulatory dimensions of international climate finance, including donor and philanthropy-funded projects, carbon markets, and multilateral climate instruments. Our team has contributed to pan-African scholarship on Just Energy Transition and engaged with UNFCCC processes at the highest level.
We have led multidisciplinary teams, including lawyers, scientists, environmental experts, and gender specialists, on donor-funded projects reviewing Kenya's legal framework for short-lived climate pollutants and air quality. This cross-disciplinary experience gives us a practical understanding of how ESG obligations translate into regulatory and operational realities.
Our Principal Partner has participated in multiple Conferences of the Parties (COP 26 and COP 27), convening and leading side events on SLCP integration and the Paris Agreement implementation in the COMESA and EAC regions. We bring genuine international engagement to our climate advisory, not just a domestic perspective.
Our Climate Change and Sustainability practice covers domestic climate law, international climate finance, ESG compliance, and engagement with multilateral climate frameworks. We have led a government-commissioned legal review of Kenya's framework for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants involving multidisciplinary experts across law, science, health, and civil society. We have participated in and convened side events at COP 26 and COP 27, contributed to the Africa Climate Summit 2023, and provided input to the Katowice Committee of Experts under the UNFCCC. We advise county governments on climate legislation, assist clients in understanding the legal implications of carbon and transition finance, and contribute to Just Transition scholarship across the African continent. Our consulting arm, Trade & Economic Law Consultants, complements our legal advisory with practical project delivery capacity.
Climate change has moved from a niche area of practice to a critical dimension of how governments, investors, and corporations manage risk and obligation. Clients trust us in this space because our engagement is authentic — we have been in the rooms at COP 26 and COP 27, contributed to pan-African Just Transition principles, and helped a county government draft climate legislation that was signed into law. We are not repurposing generalist credentials for a trending topic. Our track record in international climate forums, donor-funded consultancies, and domestic legislation gives us a depth of context that enables genuinely useful advice in a rapidly evolving legal environment
Our Corporate and Commercial practice covers a broad range of transaction and advisory work that includes M&As, deal structuring, regulatory approvals from Capital Markets & Securities, Competition matters among others. We are able to combine our corporate and commercial expertise with our unique and deep understanding of the regulated environment thus giving our Clients ability to close
transactions seamlessly.
We have handled very novel, complex and high stakes contentious matters in various dispute resolution forums including Courts of Law, Statutory Tribunals, Arbitral Tribunals and Public Procurement and Review Board. The matters span the breadth and width of commercial
disputes such a property disputes, contract, land, environmental cases, tax matters, construction law, employment and labour relation disputes, intellectual property proceedings, aviation disputes, capital markets, public procurement, data protection, etc.
The Firm benefits from the experience of the principal Partner who is a member of the Kenyan Standards Tribunal where he hears disputes on compliance to the Kenyan Standards by industry in Kenya.
The Firm, through its multidisciplinary team, provides comprehensive legal support across the full spectrum of Intellectual Property (IP) matters. We assist clients in protecting, enforcing, and maximizing the value of their intellectual assets including trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and designs.
Our Data Protection practice helps clients navigate the complex and evolving landscape of privacy and data governance. We advise local and international organizations on compliance with Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019 and related regulations, aligning their practices with global standards (e.g. GDPR). Our team conducts privacy audits and data protection impact assessments, drafts comprehensive data governance and breach-response policies, and
provides training on privacy-by-design. We also represent clients in high-stakes litigation and
regulatory investigations involving personal data. For example, we acted for a government ministry in a landmark constitutional petition concerning data privacy rights. By combining legal insight with technical awareness, we help clients leverage data strategically while safeguarding individual privacy and meeting their compliance obligations.
