Winnie Moige — Partner

Contact: +254 791 159 333 · [email protected]

Background

Winnie Moige is a Partner at OLM Law Advocates LLP, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (admitted 2018), a Certified Company Secretary (CS) and an accredited Governance Auditor. With a strong emphasis on corporate governance, she specialises in banking and project finance, energy and infrastructure law, fintech, private equity, and regulatory compliance. She advises investors and investees across sectors including banking, energy, education, financial services, fintech, agribusiness, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

Her company secretarial experience includes supporting listed and regulated companies, facilitating company and branch/subsidiary registrations, and offering guidance for new applications for licensed entities. She also handles legal restructuring and reorganization, corporate governance training, board evaluations, and holds trustee roles for bonds, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and escrow arrangements.

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate & Commercial Law
  • Company Secretarial Services
  • Corporate Governance & Compliance
  • Banking & Finance Law
  • Private Equity

Professional Experience

  • Advising Sokofresh Agri Innovations East Africa Limited on Safaricom Plc’s investment in Sokofresh.
  • Guiding an energy company on merger approvals under Kenya’s competition regime, the East African Community regimes, and the COMESA competition regime.
  • Advising a US-based and a Kenyan-based private equity fund on merger approvals for acquiring a majority stake in a Kenyan asset management firm.
  • Assisting a tech startup operating in Kenya and Nigeria with transaction documents for a US acceleration programme and the incorporation of a Delaware C corporation.
  • Advising on banking, capital markets, company law, competition/antitrust, and tax matters.
  • Conducting a statutory corporate governance and legal audit on NSE-listed companies in the banking and manufacturing sectors.
  • Advising on compliance with data protection, employment, and intellectual property laws.
  • Guiding a private equity fund through a proposed takeover of a Kenyan OTC-traded company, including a squeeze-out process under capital markets law.
  • Delivering company secretarial services including incorporations, striking off, board/committee management, and general meeting facilitation.

Qualifications

  • Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (admitted 2018)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Nairobi
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law
  • Certified Secretary (CS), Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK)

Professional Memberships

  • Law Society of Kenya
  • East Africa Law Society
  • Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK)

Languages

  • English (fluent)
  • Swahili (fluent)