Capital Markets

Our firm offers comprehensive legal solutions in Kenya’s dynamic and rapidly evolving capital markets sector. With a focus on providing strategic guidance, we help clients navigate complex capital markets transactions, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations.

Our key advisory services in the capital markets sector include:

1. Public Offerings: We provide end-to-end support for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), guiding clients from due diligence to prospectus drafting, and ensuring regulatory compliance with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA).
2. Debt and Equity Issuances: Our team is adept at structuring and executing various capital-raising mechanisms, including bond issuances, private placements, and rights issues, while maintaining strict adherence to securities laws.
3. Fund Formation and Collective Investment Schemes: We have significant experience in setting up both local and foreign currency-denominated funds, including Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other collective investment schemes.
4. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): We assist clients with capital markets aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and protecting our clients’ interests during share acquisitions, takeovers, and restructurings.
5. Regulatory Compliance: Our regulatory team provides ongoing compliance support to listed companies and fund managers, covering corporate governance, insider trading regulations, and market abuse prevention.
6. Capital Markets Disputes: In the event of disputes or regulatory investigations, we offer expert litigation services, representing clients in proceedings before regulatory bodies, tribunals, and courts.

Our expertise ensures that we can deliver tailored, cutting-edge legal solutions to meet the unique needs of corporate issuers, investors, and financial institutions alike.