US$1.2bn
Tender offer for a listed regional telecoms operator
A pan-African telecoms group
Advised the bidder on a recommended cash offer, including dual-jurisdiction takeover approvals and the delisting that followed.
Est. 1987 · Six offices · Twelve jurisdictions
Counsel for the decisions that define decades.
A pan-African partnership advising governments, global corporations and founding families on the matters that shape their future.
39
Years of practice since our founding in Nairobi
180+
Advocates across six offices and twelve jurisdictions
US$48bn
In transactions advised since 2015
94%
Of clients have instructed us for five years or more
The Firm
For nearly four decades, the region’s boards, governments and founding families have trusted us with the matters they cannot afford to get wrong. We remain a partnership of advocates first: deliberately focused, quietly decisive, and present wherever our clients’ ambitions take them.
Wanjiru Kamau-Ochieng
Managing Partner
Expertise
Depth in every discipline.
Fluency across every border.
- 01 Corporate & M&A Acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures that reshape markets.
- 02 Banking & Finance Capital for the companies and projects building the region.
- 03 Disputes & Arbitration When the outcome matters most, in court or before a tribunal.
- 04 Energy, Infrastructure & Projects Power, ports and roads, from concession to commissioning.
- 05 Tax Structuring, controversy and policy, with no surprises.
- 06 Capital Markets Listings, bonds and the region’s landmark issuances.
- 07 Real Estate & Land Title you can build a generation on.
- 08 Employment & Pensions People strategy, protected by sound law.
- 09 Technology, Media & Data Digital markets, fintech and the rules that govern them.
- 10 Competition & Regulatory Merger control and market conduct across COMESA and the EAC.
- 11 Investigations & White-Collar Quiet, decisive counsel when integrity is in question.
- 12 Private Wealth & Family Continuity for families and the enterprises they built.
- 01 Financial Institutions Banks, insurers, asset managers and the fintechs disrupting them.
- 02 Energy & Natural Resources Geothermal, solar, wind, oil, gas and critical minerals.
- 03 Infrastructure & Transport The corridors that move goods and people across the region.
- 04 Technology & Telecoms Networks, platforms and the data that flows between them.
- 05 Agribusiness From smallholder supply chains to global commodity trade.
- 06 Healthcare & Life Sciences Hospitals, pharmaceuticals and the regulation of care.
Selected experience
Matters that moved markets.
US$420m
Financing of a 310 MW geothermal complex
A consortium of development finance institutions
Counsel to the lenders on a senior and mezzanine financing with political risk cover, the largest geothermal financing in the region to date.
US$210m
LCIA award for an EPC contractor
An international engineering contractor
Secured an award, including interest and costs, after a 14-day hearing on delay and disruption claims arising from a highway project.
US$2bn
COMESA clearance for a beverages merger
A global beverages company
Coordinated filings in nine jurisdictions and secured unconditional regional clearance within the statutory timetable.
KES 4.8bn
Transfer pricing appeal
A multinational manufacturing group
Overturned an assessment before the Tax Appeals Tribunal, setting an important precedent on benchmarking intra-group services.
US$500m
Debut sustainability-linked bond
A tier-one regional bank
Advised the issuer on a dual-listed programme with KPIs tied to lending to women-owned businesses and climate adaptation.
US$300m
Sale of a tower portfolio
A mobile network operator
Advised on the carve-out and sale of 2,700 towers with a long-term master lease back.
25 years
Container terminal concession
An international port operator
Advised on the procurement, negotiation and financing of a 25-year concession for a deep-water berth.
- Tier 1 · Corporate & M&A · Kenya · 12 consecutive years
- East Africa Law Firm of the Year 2026
- Band 1 · Dispute Resolution · Kenya & Uganda
- Energy & Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2025
- Leading Firm · Banking & Finance · East Africa
- Pro Bono Firm of the Year · Africa 2025
- Tier 1 · Tax · Kenya
- Most Innovative Firm in Africa · Shortlist 2026
Our people
Partners who stay with you from first call to final signature.
Insights
Thinking ahead of the agenda.
Report
East Africa Deal Report 2026
Deal value rose for the second year in a row, led by infrastructure, financial services and a revival in mid-market private equity.
Wanjiru Kamau-Ochieng & Daniel Mwangi Kariuki
18 min read
Perspective
Why Nairobi is earning its place as an arbitral seat
Supportive courts, a maturing institution and a deep bench of practitioners are changing where African disputes are heard.
Faith Achieng Owino
9 min read
Briefing
Data protection enforcement: what boards need to know now
Regulators across the region are moving from guidance to penalties. Here is what has changed and what to do about it.
David Kiprono Rotich
7 min read
Perspective
Green and sustainability-linked bonds come of age
From first issuances to repeat programmes: lessons from the region’s most active sustainable debt year.
Otieno Odhiambo & Wanjiru Kamau-Ochieng
8 min read
Offices
One partnership.
Six cities.
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