
HMS Advocates LLP is considered the foremost innovative and full-service Law Firm in Kenya. Our Clients navigate and transact in diverse sectors with new and evolving opportunities. Our services to our Clients extend across the globe with a major presence in over 22 countries. In a constantly changing environment, we apply a bespoke approach to resolving the legal challenges posed across industries and jurisdictions ensuring the best possible results for our clients.
Our Firm was founded in 2016 by leading independent Legal minds and industry professionals who are united by a shared vision and dedicated to acheiving excellence legal practice. We nurture a forward thinking mindset, collaboration and corporate responsibility and are committed to creating a better future for our clients and the communities around us.
We are achieving our Firm’s vision through an inclusive outlook which guarantees tailor made solutions for our valued Client’s and our team has developed expertise in the following areas:
- Banking, Financial Services & Insolvency
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Employment and Labour Relations Law
- Tax Law
- Real Estate and Construction Law
- Immigration
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Intellectual Property
- Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Practice areas
Business
Service areas
- Incorporation of Business Set Ups
- Capital Markets
- Competition Law & Antitrust
- Renewable Energy & Infrastructure
- Private Equity
- Public Private Partnerships
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Forensics, Risk & Compliance
Employment & Labor
Service areas
- Disciplinary proceedings and termination processes
- Due diligence and strategic planning
- Employee share options and other incentive schemes (ESOPs)
- Employment law contracts, policies and compliance
- Forensics and investigations
- Immigration
- Labour relations, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and trade union engagement
- Redundancies and transfer of employees
- Training
Real Estate
Service areas
- Construction
- Conveyancing
- Project financing
- Joint ventures
- Property acquisition and development
- Leasing
- Operations management
- Tax and equity structuring
- Physical planning and land use
Immigration
Service areas
- Visa and Exemption Services
- Consular Services including Dual Citizenship and Regaining Citizenship
- Temporary Permits
- Work Permits and Passes
- Permanent Residences
- Citizenship Services
- Investigations and attending to any Immigration matters
Lawsuits & Disputes
Service areas
- Commercial litigation
- Competition
- Constitutional law/ Business and Human Rights law
- Crisis management
- Economic crime
- Employment
- Intellectual property
- International arbitration
- International trade
- Insolvency
- Land & environment
- Procurement
- Regulatory
- Shareholders’ disputes
- Tax
Intellectual Property
Service areas
- Anti-counterfeit procedures
- Copyright
- Disputes
- Distribution agreements
- Franchising deals
- Industrial designs and utility models
- Patents
- Plant breeders’ rights
- Sponsorship agreements
- Trademark licensing
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DENNIS KIMANI MUTONGA, ADVOCATE
