
We advise clients in their investments endeavors with an ultimate goal to minimize investment risks and maximize returns.
Our work entails
- Setting up of private equity funds, venture capital funds and investment funds entailing Collective Investment Schemes which include an Investment Company, Unit Trust or Mutual Fund (whether open or closed mutual Fund), as well as setting up of Special Interest Collective Investment Schemes and Alternative Investment Funds. The Firm ensures that during the setting up process there is compliance with the legal and regulatory provisions including the obtaining of the approvals and licences from the regulatory authorities.
- We advise and represent clients in the conduct of due diligence of the target company, structuring of the debt and equity investment, negotiation, structuring and drafting of investor’s rights agreements, management agreements and management compensation, structuring of majority buy-outs and minority investments, structuring of shareholder agreements, tax restructuring, IPOs.
Some notable transactions under this area of law include:
- The Firm advised Iungo Capital B.V. (a Netherlands based impact investment company) in setting up in Kenya.
- The Firm advised a leading Ghana based Investment and Management Company licensed by Securities and Exchange Commission of Ghana and also a licensed fund manager in Ghana in setting up a mutual fund in Kenya.
- The Firm acts for various international investors, in offering advisories in relation to Equity Securities and Debt Securities.
- The Firm advised a client on the processes of obtaining regulatory approvals from the Capital Markets Authority in relation to an Alternative Investment Fund as provided for under the Capital Markets (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2023.