Kotonya Njoroge LLP is a full service law firm in Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya of youthful and energetic lawyers with experience in diverse areas of legal practice. The firm offers legal services in Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration & Mediation), Banking, Commercial Transactions, Capital Markets, Telecommunications, Energy, Oil and Gas, Environment, Intellectual Property, Public Procurement, Debt Collection, Tax, Real Estate/Property/Conveyancing, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Privatization.
Kotonya Njoroge LLP boasts of a team of highly qualified and experienced commercial lawyers with a wealth of local and international experience and talent to provide quality legal services. Our team can manage everything from buy-ins and buy-outs, joint ventures, and franchising, to supply of goods/services agreements, and distribution agreements.
Kotonya Njoroge LLP dispute resolution department. Its key areas of legal services encompasses civil and commercial litigation, employment disputes, public procurement reviews, local and international arbitrations and corporate recoveries.
Kotonya Njoroge LLP specialize in providing families with considered, practical and sensitive advice on all family law matters.
Our corporate insolvency team understands the uncertainty and pressures that both debtors and creditors face.We are known for our tenacity consistency, forthrightness, ingenuity and exemplary client service that has ensured that we continue to grow and curve a niche for ourselves as a respected debt collection firm preferred by many clients throughout the Republic of Kenya.
Our lawyers advise on all employment law issues, whether contentious or non-contentious, offering a high quality and rapid-response service. We also work with employers to create individually designed contracts, policies and HR procedures. We have advised on matters ranging from sensitive severance issues to issues of corporate governance and more standard disciplinary and grievance issues.
Our specialist intellectual property and technology lawyers work closely with clients to develop, protect, promote and enforce their intellectual property rights. We advise on all aspects of the exploitation and use of intellectual property rights and the acquisition and use of information technology products and services. We work for companies in a variety of industries and our specialist intellectual property expertise ensures that we are able to provide cost effective advice that is commercially sound and practical. Our lawyers are also experienced in both contentious and non-contentious enforcement of intellectual property rights relating to expungement, infringement and opposition proceedings in respect of patents, plant breeders rights, unregistered and registered designs, copyright and database rights, image rights, domain names, trade marks and the law of passing off. We handle and advise on registration of various IP rights through local, regional and international registries.
Kotonya Njoroge LLP is premier law firm in banking and property law in Kenya and it maintains a broad banking transactional, regulatory and operational practice. The Property Department constantly advises major Clients in the region on a full range of legal issues confronting the industry. The members of the department have a wide range of experience advising banks and financial institutions on the structuring of financial products, secured lending and asset financing.
As a value adding service, the Firm’s banking law specialists will offer training to Bank employees on the laws relating to the business and processes of banks in Kenya. The Firm’s lawyers may also on invitation give talks to various players in the Banking industry/stakeholders of the client on various aspects and challenges of banking law. Kotonya Njoroge LLP boasts of a team of highly qualified and experienced commercial lawyers with a wealth of local and international experience and talent to provide quality legal services
Our immigration lawyers provide specialist advice in the field of immigration law encompassing a range of services covering temporary residence applications, including visas, special passes, work(entry) permits and accompanying spouse or parent permits (dependant’s passes) and determination of citizenship status.
Our lawyers advise on all aspects of insurance and reinsurance law, whether corporate, regulatory or contentious. Our mix of specialist skills and experience has resulted in a industry focused team committed to the highest standards of client service.
We have advised on some of the largest and most complex transactions in the telecommunications sector in Kenya as well as on routine vanilla mergers and acquisitions not only in Kenya but across borders in Africa. We also have advised on strategic joint ventures and partnering arrangements common in this sector. We continue to advise on telecoms privatisations and licensing, telecoms capital markets, telecoms financing, regulation and competition compliance in the telecoms sector and so on.
Head of Corporate Commercial, Business Establishment & Real Estate/Property Practice
Njoroge is a Partner in the Corporate, Commercial and Real Estate department. He practices in the areas of real property law including leasing, acquisition and financing of real estate development. His practice also encompasses all associated areas of general commercial law including business establishment and tax advisory in Kenya. He has participated in the development of various real estate projects and has advised on commercial lending, insolvency and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions while regularly acting for individual and corporate clients in a wide variety of matters.
Head of Litigation, Dispute Resolution & Tax
Mark is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution of the Firm. His practice entails acting for, and advising clients on, matters relating to corporate commercial litigation including complex tax disputes, contractual disputes and commercial arbitrations. He also takes a keen interest in employment law, with an emphasis on employment contracts and related disputes. He has ably and successfully represented individual and corporate clients before numerous mediation and arbitration panels and also at the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Kenya.
