KN Law LLP is a boutique corporate and commercial law firm operating from Nairobi, Kenya, with a regional reach across multiple jurisdictions and with a Liaison office in London. We have selected the very top lawyers in their respective fields, each with unique experience and demonstrated expertise, to make up a well-rounded team that works well together and with our clients. Our proven experience and proficiency in providing legal advisory to local and multi-national corporations and high-net-worth individuals is the core of our practice. We offer innovative, efficient and practical legal solutions through our team of highly trained, skilled and expert lawyers. Our brief is simple: to ensure that our service offering not only meets clients’ expectations, but continually surpasses them.
Whenever M&A is discussed, KN Law LLP is almost always on the short-list. Over the years, we have successfully advised on some of the major deals in corporate mergers and acquisitions in the region, acted as legal counsel for both acquirers and targets, and advised on legal and regulatory aspects of complex multi-jurisdictional transactions.
We have over the years gained deep knowledge and vast experience in setting up and advising venture capital and private equity funds. We are proud to have advised a number of start-ups in their various financing stages. We speak Venture Capital and Private Equity fluently, and have been advisors in several privatisation and corporate restructuring transactions as well. Little wonder, then, that our established capacity in this field has won us accolades, including citations and rankings in Chambers Global in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
In keeping with our strategic positioning as a niche commercial law firm, we act in specialised commercial dispute resolution on behalf of select clients who entrust us with complex commercial disputes requiring arbitration and other alternative resolution mechanisms.
Litigation practice in Kenya is often adversarial, but our process is not. We understand that clients would rather save time and cost than pursue process. Our approach, then, is to assist our clients to settle out of court, cognisant of the eventuality that besides outlays, legal action can be uncertain and emotionally draining. We consistently pursue the best possible outcome for our clients without the need to score points against the opposition.
Our Employment and Immigration function assists clients in setting up Employee Share Ownership Plans, alongside executive compensation and incentive schemes. We also offer advisory services on labour laws, employment contracts, redundancies and termination, and retirement benefits schemes. Our best work in immigration law has seen us advise and help businesses, organisations and individuals to make applications for work, investor and other permits required by foreign nationals aspiring to reside in or work in Kenya.
Our Employment and Immigration function assists clients in setting up Employee Share Ownership Plans, alongside executive compensation and incentive schemes. We also offer advisory services on labour laws, employment contracts, redundancies and termination, and retirement benefits schemes. Our best work in immigration law has seen us advise and help businesses, organisations and individuals to make applications for work, investor and other permits required by foreign nationals aspiring to reside in or work in Kenya.
We extend our legal advisory services in the real estate sector to property developers, property buyers and financiers. This entails structuring of development projects, setting up of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), drafting required conveyance documents including but not limited to leases, licenses, powers of attorney and sale agreements. In addition, we advise on Land Use and Planning.
