Accomplished financial services lawyer with more than 20 years post admission experience (admitted July 1999), including 8 years as an in-house counsel for two of Australia’s premier financial institutions, 4 years with a leading African law firm and 4 years of legal and compliance experience with a major emerging markets banking group.
Areas of experience: Data protection and privacy, governance, risk and compliance, lending transactions, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, project finance, bid tendering, general corporate and commercial law, managed funds and investment management law, including issues pertaining to collective investment schemes (managed investment schemes/unit trusts), superannuation funds (also known as pension schemes), financial planning and advice services and portfolio administration systems.
General legal knowledge: Well-developed understanding of general commercial law principles eg directors duties, corporate governance, contracts, dispute resolution, etc
Business knowledge: Familiarity with concepts and principles relevant to finance and investment management
Personal attributes: Well-developed ability to identify and analyze legal risks in a commercial context and recommend solutions.
Specializations: data protection and privacy; governance, risk and compliance, lending transactions, private equity transactions
mergers & acquisitions under Kenyan law,
project finance under Kenyan law.
law regulating unit trusts, superannuation, financial planning and advice.
knowledge of commercial aspects regarding sale and distribution of financial products, relationships with investment managers, portfolio administration systems (wrap platforms):
technical skills: contract negotiation and review, legal risk management, regulator liaisons, dispute management
