US$1.2bn
Tender offer for a listed regional telecoms operator
Advised the bidder on a recommended cash offer, including dual-jurisdiction takeover approvals and the delisting that followed.
Managing Partner · Nairobi
Wanjiru Kamau-Ochieng
Leads the firm and its most significant public M&A and capital markets mandates.
Wanjiru is Managing Partner of Igweta Advocates and one of East Africa’s most experienced public M&A lawyers. She advises listed companies, sovereign funds and global strategics on takeovers, listings and the governance questions that come with them.
Before joining the partnership in 2008, she spent six years in the corporate practice of a leading London firm. She sits on the Capital Markets Authority’s advisory panel on takeover reform.
Selected experience
- Advised a pan-African telecoms group on its US$1.2bn tender offer for a listed regional operator
- Led the dual listing of a regional bank on the Nairobi and Kigali exchanges
- Advised the board of a listed brewer on a contested change of control
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