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Our family lawyers provide expert legal guidance on matters affecting families, including prenuptial and post nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, divorce, separation, child arrangements, financial settlements and disputes over assets including property.

We help our clients in drafting wills and setting up family trusts to ensure their control of the assets even after death. In doing so, we combine specialist family law knowledge with integrated support from our business and tax lawyers, ensuring coordinated strategies that protect both your family and your assets.

We provide guidance, expertise, sensitivity and unwavering commitment to confidentiality to our clients in matters that are either straightforward or complex conflict involving substantial assets, international elements or sensitive business interests.

We offer specialist legal services tailored for private and commercial clients.

The enormity of the decision to relocate yourself, your family, or business should not be underestimated, and as such, we offer a personalized, efficient and pragmatic approach to resolving immigration issues.

In the context of the ever-changing world of immigration, we understand the importance of staying abreast of the continual changes in immigration rules and policy so we can always provide you with the advice to achieve the best outcome for you.

Our lawyers speak multiple languages including French, Swahili. This enables us to provide culturally sensitive guidance and build trusted relationships across jurisdictions.

We provide immigration advice to high-net worth individuals with a need to invest or relocate to Kenya. We provide full service and guidance throughout the whole process. With our immigration office colleagues, we have an established track record of successful applications.

In addition, we support corporate immigration by letting you focus on securing the right people for your business whilst we assist with; ensuring HR systems are compliant with legislation, obtaining a sponsorship license, obtaining work permits for employees, permanent residency for employees, challenging civil penalties and advising on prevention of illegal working.

 With our partner law firm in the USA, we provide specialized legal assistance and advice to assist you in legal immigration to the USA.

Clients ranging from international property companies to home owners ask us to advise on all aspects of property transactions and management. We act for property funds, developers, private investors, lending institutions and property professionals. Often, this will require expertise in respect of property investment, new developments and town planning, finance, environmental considerations, landlord and tenant and property management issues.

We provide residential property services which include the buying or selling of high value residential properties, whether they are houses, apartments or new buildings. We assist in the process and advise on all legal problems that may affect your transaction. We provide a highly efficient service, with full communication to our clients. Problems and delays often arise during these transactions and if they do, we will explain the problem clearly and promptly, explain the options, and agree a way forward with you.

Our aim is to make the experience of buying and selling residential property as enjoyable and stress- free as possible.

We also deal with commercial property in which this includes, property companies, investors, developers, banks, major corporate occupiers and across a spectrum of landlords and tenants. We deal regularly with high value multi-tenanted investment property (acquisitions & disposals). We deal with large portfolios of occupied property and all aspects of lease renewal, rent review and management issues including property disputes.

Most importantly, we provide for construction service to all client sectors from developers, investors, through to those in the construction industry themselves being interior designers, architects engineers, project managers, contractors and sub -contractors. Our approach is commercial and focused on getting the best outcome for our clients, whatever their construction needs. We draft and negotiate all relevant construction documents, advise on construction aspects of corporate, real estate and finance transactions, mediation, early neutral evaluation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

We advise on a range of building construction issues. We frequently advise on issues concerning payments or performance under construction contracts and also other areas such as damages arising from breaches of construction contracts and other issues. We also advise in respect of a wide range of construction related matters including purchase agreements and agreements for lease where obligations to carry out works or complete projects are disputed.

We act in respect of party wall issues (where proposed works might impact on another party), licenses to carry out works, over-sailing matters and trespass and also schedules of conditions and dilapidations. We also deal with negligence disputes arising from construction contracts and other related matters such as boundaries, nuisance, and insolvency such as the insolvency of a contractor or developer mid-way through works.

We are used to recommending cost-effective methods of dispute of alternative dispute resolution such as attending mediations and acting as mediators.