Real Estate Development & Conveyancing
Our clients benefit from our significant experience in facilitating negotiations, litigating on behalf of, steering through regulatory matters and drafting documentation. Whether a traditional real estate company or a multinational corporation, we have the capacity to engage on all legal matters.
Construction: We assist clients in all sectors to analyse the risk profile of their projects and select the best type of delivery method for the project. We also assist clients in negotiating the contracts. We advise on private developments and commercial developments. We help clients avoid disputes but when they arise, we manage the litigation or other alternative dispute resolution processes.
Real Estate Asset Management: It is key for our clients to have their desired tenants. We work with public and private stakeholders and take pride in understanding our clients in this regard. Our knowledge of the legal issues clients may face is key to our advice to any organisation which needs to buy, sell, manage or lease land or buildings. As we work with our clients to deliver, we ensure that we deliver with speed and reduce costs.
We also work with organizations that work in Real Estate Development & Planning on a wide range of development projects that range from office buildings and mixed use facilities to large scale urban regeneration projects with complex negotiations between public and private stakeholders. Our experience guiding commercial development projects gives our clients a competitive advantage. Clients seek us out because we deliver the full range of services necessary to conceive, implement and complete significant projects.
Real Estate Finance: Clients know they can rely on us at all stages of their real estate transactions, from the term sheet and structuring stage, through closing, tranching, syndication and securitization, administration, servicing and, if required, restructuring.
Real Estate Funds & Private Equity : We represent fund sponsors on the structuring and formation of funds investing in Kenya. We also represent a number of funds in co-investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals, leasing, environmental, development and financing transactions. We represent core, value-added and opportunistic funds, as well as real estate sector-specific funds, real estate securities hedge funds and funds that focus on structured finance products. We also represent institutional investors in connection with their fund investments, including insurance companies, REITs, financial institutions, investment banking firms and other institutional investors.
Real Estate Investment: We represent clients for whom real estate is a core asset or an alternative investment and clients whose business operations have significant real estate needs. Whether a fund is seeking to acquire a major asset by way of a joint venture, share acquisition, or a multinational corporation is contemplating locating its offices in Kenya, we can advise in all areas of law including: structuring, financing and tax advisory; due diligence; acquisitions and disposals; property development; and leasing and facilities management.
Real Estate Litigation: Our real estate litigation team has the market understanding to offer legal advice about those issues that reflect our clients’ business needs. When issues arise, we can identify and execute the most advantageous business-oriented solutions, either by pursuing or defending litigation or arbitration proceedings or through other alternative dispute resolution methods, such as mediation, arbitration or negotiations.