Mutheu Muthiani & Co. Advocates

LITIGATION AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Our firm prosecutes and defends matters before all the Courts in Kenya. Over the years we have gained significant experience resolving matters for clients across all key sectors. We resolve matters by providing clients with practical and creative legal advice that focuses on their strategic and commercial objectives. Our experience includes full understanding of alternative dispute resolution and litigation mechanisms ranging from negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration and contact resolution to vigorous courtroom strategy proceedings.

Our areas of practice include:

• Civil litigation
• Criminal litigation
• Constitutional and human rights
• Family law
• Property and land law litigation
• Administrative law
• Employment and labour law
• Election petition
• Environmental law

REAL ESTATE AND CONVEYANCING

All dealings in land (real estate) including preparation and registration of leases, Transfers, Mortgages, Charges (perfection of security),Preparation and registration of Powers of Attorneys, Receivership and share assets transfer, change of user and negotiation of securities.

Our property law department prepares and reviews al legal documents relating to real estates. Assist with the negotiation of the terms and conditions of real estate transactions and facility transfer of titles. Our property team is made of advocates with superb research and analytical skills. All the real estate transactions carried out by our team are legally binding.

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW

Our firm has a wealth of experience in handling company legal transactions partnership and projects. We draw our experience on the wealth of commercial expertise observed on the globalization of trade and investment, the emergence of new markets, increasing trans-border merger and acquisition activity and the growing convergence of trade finance and global corporate governance.

We are firm believers in the power of innovation for the purpose of making business easier and efficient in keeping with the best international standards and trends.

The department has experience in the broader areas of:

• Bank security and finance
• Intellectual property law
• Legislative drafting
• Private equity
• Projects and infrastructure
• Corporate restructuring
• Trust and estates

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Complementary statutes supported by the Common law and internationally accepted principles govern intellectual property law and practice in Kenya. The recent international demand on strict adherence to the intellectual property rights has led our firm to undertake extensive research in this discipline and the firm is able to offer a broad based service in this area. We advise on the registration of trademarks, patents, industrial designs, assignments and licenses for wide variety of clientele including litigation related matters. We delight ourselves in ensuring that our clients are able to gain recognition and or financial benefit from what they invent or create.

With a developed specialty in providing Constitutional and administrative law matters particularly in relation to the 2010 Constitution of Kenya, we seek to provide the best advice on rights and fundamental freedoms based on the provisions on the Constitution and International law. We also advice and litigate on issues of Land, Citizenship, governance and protection of public interest. We currently represent various clients in prosecuting and defending constitutional references and judicial review proceedings in various courts in Kenya.