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How to recover a debt in Kenya — demand letters, statutory demands, the right court by value, timelines and costs for businesses and lenders.

Private client legal matters — wills, estates, succession, trusts, family disputes and wealth structuring — sit at the intersection of personal and family life and legal obligation. Kenya’s succession law blends the Succession Act 1972 (which applies to most of the population and to all non-citizens) with a parallel customary law system, and its family […]

Kenya’s fintech sector is among the most dynamic in Africa. M-Pesa — the mobile money service launched by Safaricom in 2007 — demonstrated that transformative financial infrastructure could emerge from Kenya and be replicated globally. That legacy has made Nairobi a magnet for fintech investment and a testing ground for mobile lending, digital insurance, blockchain-based […]

This is a general guide to the law. For advice on your operations, see our aviation lawyers in Kenya. At a glance Kenya’s aviation sector is regulated by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) under the Civil Aviation Act 2013. All commercial air operations, whether by Kenyan or foreign operators, require KCAA certification or permit. […]

The Data Protection Act 2019 introduced Kenya’s first comprehensive personal data protection regime and brought it broadly into alignment with international standards, in particular the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It applies to every organisation â regardless of size, sector or country of incorporation â that processes personal data in Kenya or processes […]

Intellectual property rights — trademarks, patents, copyrights and industrial designs — are commercially significant assets for any business operating in Kenya’s growing economy. Yet they are also among the most frequently misunderstood and neglected areas of legal compliance. A brand built over years can be appropriated by a bad-faith registrant who registers the trademark first; […]

This is a general guide to the law. For advice on a live transaction, see our capital markets lawyers in Kenya. Kenya’s capital markets are regulated by one of the most active securities commissions on the continent, operating under a framework that has evolved significantly since the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) was constituted as a […]

When a Kenyan company can no longer pay its debts, its directors, shareholders and creditors face a cascade of decisions that are time-sensitive and consequential. The Insolvency Act 2015 — modelled substantially on the UK Insolvency Act 1986 but adapted for the Kenyan context — introduced administration as a formal rescue procedure for the first […]

Banking and finance law in Kenya sits at the intersection of statute, central-bank regulation and commercial contract. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) exercises wide supervisory powers over banks, microfinance institutions, mortgage finance companies, payment-service providers and a growing roster of digital-credit platforms. Understanding how the regulatory framework is built — and where it can […]

Licences and permits in Kenya, explained: the general set-up registrations every business needs, plus a sector-by-sector licence checklist for investors.