Practice Area Litigation and Dispute Resolution (White Collar Crimes || Arbitration)
KWEW has a team of qualified Insolvency Resolution Professionals, company secretaries and lawyers who offer strategic advice to corporate debtors, creditors and other stakeholders during the insolvency proceedings and provide professional services required during the process and represent them in court/tribunal proceedings. Our experienced lawyers can handle complex cases involving companies with distressed assets both from the legal and the business side in an effective manner.
The experience of the firm with regard to infrastructure projects ranges from acting as a legal adviser to financiers of projects and the preparation and negotiation of the financing documentation, inter-creditor arrangements and trust and retention documents, to the carrying out of due diligence on the project contracts and preparing and negotiating project documentation for stakeholders. Our lawyers have considerable professional experience in advising clients on matters of concession agreements, bid documents, bidding, project finance documents, securitization. Our services include advice related to structuring of project company, tax structures, advice on legal, regulatory and transactional issues at the various stages of project conception and execution. Our counsels provide the client complete legal solutions and advice from prequalification stage to bidding, from the tender process to final execution of documents.
- Litigation
- Mediation & Conciliation
- Intrenational & Domestic Arbitration
- Constitutional & Administrative Law
Litigation is a very complex and time consuming process in Kenya demanding patience and robust strategic approach. KWEW is handling litigation matters throughout Kenya including the Supreme Court of Kenya and various High Courts.
Our litigation team is adept in effectively handling the following categories of cases: Civil Litigation; Commercial and Tax Litigation; Employment and Labour Related Litigation.; Land and Real estate litigation, Criminal Litigation.
We handle litigation in various judicial and quasi-judicial tribunals/forums including Tribunals, Appellate Tribunals, Tax Tribunals, Competition Commission, Electricity Tribunal, Telecom Disputes Tribunal, Designated Authorities and other adjudicatory bodies.
Our team of Advocates handles complex civil disputes such as suits for recovery of money, suit for damages, Mandatory and Permanent Injunctions, declaratory suits, Commercial and Contractual disputes, eviction suits, property suits, Employee/Employer claims etc. In addition, KWEW litigation team regularly handles a variety of issues ranging from recovery of payments, consumer laws, employment law, product liability, medical negligence, environmental litigation, construction disputes, matrimonial matters, disputes involving contracts and property, intellectual property related litigation including trade secrets and brand protection on the internet, infrastructure and telecommunications, taxation etc.
We actively advise and represent clients in matters undergoing mediation or conciliation proceeding.
KWEW also offers significant experience in conducting arbitration proceedings and its team is well informed of all the key institutional rules, including those of the CIarB, LCIA, ICC, HKIAC, SIAC and ICSID, as well as the UNCITRAL Rules.
KWEW offers advice on litigation matters touching on Constitutional and Administrative Law. We provide client support in understanding and interpreting what the constitution says, what it means and what its limitations are. As the social and political issues change and develop, we remain abreast with those changes so as to offer timely advice to our clients by clarifying about the meaning, interpretation and enforcement of those issues from a constitutional and administrative perspective.
