Mohammed Muigai is one of Kenya 's leading law firms founded in 1988. Mohammed Muigai is known for its pre-eminence in providing specialised regulatory advisory services, high level dispute resolution (through both litigation and alternative mechanisms) and handling complex and big value property transactions. The firm has experience in providing corporate and financial services and advising on corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, employment, insurance, tax, as well as conducting commercial litigation and arbitration. In addition, t he firm has been involved in several landmark cases tried in Kenyan Courts in the past two decades, the restructuring of over four state corporations and advises the Government, multinational institutions and private corporations on public legal reform initiatives regularly.
Today the firm has five partners, four associates, two specialist consultants, four legal assistants and a dedicated team of support staff offering expert legal advice to businesses, corporate entities, banks, insurance and financial institutions, governments and private clients. The partners and associates have a varied educational and professional background with unique exposure to the Kenyan and other legal systems helping the firm to better understand our clients' businesses and to find answers to their needs in diverse areas such as banking, finance, insurance, energy, telecommunications and transportation. To be able to respond effectively to the ever changing legal needs of the business environment in the region, the firm puts great premium on continuing learning to add to the advanced and specialized degrees that all the partners and most associates hold.
The firm is housed in K-Rep Centre, Wood Avenue off Lenana Road, Hurlingham, Nairobi. The entire firm is entirely computerized and maintains an extensive and secure database of documents necessary to undertake its litigation, commercial and conveyance portfolios. To effectively cater for its clientele, the firm is organized into three departments headed by our partners:
The Commercial Transactions Department provides a wide range of commercial advisory services to clients including undertaking due diligence, negotiating restructurings, advising on public listing, rights issues, asset sales and financing through single lender or syndicate loans. The expertise of the firm's advocates is usually very much in evidence after a successful negotiation of a merger & acquisition or painless restructuring. The firm has particular expertise in the capital markets, Information and Communication Technology, Financial services and Utilities.
The Litigation and Arbitration Department is involved in the day to day litigation before the Kenya Courts, tribunals both domestic and international and represents clients in arbitrations and before regulators. With a hard to rival success rate in the country, the department ensures that
Mohammed Muigai remains the firm to see with complex litigation and arbitration matters.
Public Sector Legal Reform and Legislative Drafting Consultancy is a specialist, one of its kind department of the firm that focuses on providing consultancy services to government and other public institutions on statutory and regulatory reform. The department helps with designing reform assignment, implementation, facilitating stakeholder dialogue and input, policy advisory and legislative drafting.
The Real Estate Transactions (Conveyancing) Department deals with all property transactions including obtaining titles, preparing property schemes, advising on change of user, negotiating for securities and conducting security due diligence. That all major banks in the country as well as a large number of private and public entities continues to use the department for their property transaction goes to show that the department never tire to satisfy the needs of its clients
In 2007 the Global Chambers Partners noted that domestic sources praised the firm's
“excellent service and professional input”
The entire firm is fully computerized and maintains an extensive and secure database of documents necessary to undertake its legal advisory, Litigation, Commercial and Conveyance Portfolios.