About
About Kihara Njuguna & Co. Advocates
In a time where the practice of law is often reduced to speed, volume, and the pursuit of transactional victories, Kihara Njuguna & Co. Advocates (KNCA) chooses a different path—one marked by wisdom, precision, integrity, and legacy-minded counsel.
At KNCA, we are more than lawyers. We are legal architects. We are stewards of trust. We are companions to visionaries. We believe that law is not simply a tool for solving problems—it is a refined instrument for building enterprises, stewarding wealth, protecting people, and enabling growth that transcends generations.
Our work is to anchor businesses in clarity, resilience, and thoughtful expansion.
Who We Are
Kihara Njuguna & Co. Advocates (KNCA) is a premier Kenyan law firm grounded in authentic relationships, careful reasoning, and exceptional legal craftsmanship.
Our practice spans local, regional, and international spheres, where we offer meticulously structured legal solutions for corporates, investors, developers, family businesses, innovators, and institutions navigating the complex realities of commerce, governance, and regulation.
We are not in the business of offering quick answers. We walk with our clients deliberately—through growth, through complexity, through cross-border ambitions, through the safeguarding of hard-earned legacies.
At KNCA, we honour the sacred weight of trust. We practise law with care, depth, and enduring integrity.
The Three Pillars of Our Practice
Our firm is shaped by three enduring commitments—pillars that define how we think, how we serve, and how we walk alongside those who entrust us with their most significant pursuits.
1. Accelerated Market Entry
We enable local and international businesses to enter new markets swiftly, securely, and with legal clarity. Our market entry advisory integrates regulatory navigation, corporate structuring, licensing, compliance, and dispute foresight—allowing enterprises to establish themselves with speed and soundness across Kenya, East Africa, and beyond.
2. Transaction Execution
Transactions are more than documents—they are the crystallization of vision, trust, and commercial ambition. We guide the execution of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, capital raises, real estate deals, and complex commercial transactions with rigorous precision, balanced structures, and legal clarity that endures.
3. Supporting Regional and Global Growth
As businesses scale across borders, they face intricate legal terrains. We provide cross-border structuring, intellectual property protection, governance support, compliance mapping, and strategic advisory that facilitates sustainable growth—regionally and globally.
These three pillars frame our legal craft. They are not corporate slogans. They are deeply lived commitments.
Our Core Practice Areas
Our legal practice is carefully structured to meet the multi-dimensional needs of modern businesses and institutions. We offer profound expertise in fourteen key practice areas:
1. Corporate and Commercial Law
We craft legal frameworks that underpin corporate governance, shareholder arrangements, commercial agreements, restructurings, and day-to-day operations—always balancing regulatory requirements with commercial realities.
2. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
We provide disciplined transaction support, from due diligence and structuring to negotiation and seamless execution of complex mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and joint ventures.
3. Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets
Our team advises lenders, borrowers, and investors on financing transactions, secured lending, syndicated loans, regulatory compliance, and capital markets activity.
4. Real Estate, Property, and Conveyancing
We advise developers, financiers, and landowners on acquisitions, leases, joint developments, and mixed-use master-planned projects, integrating commercial foresight with real estate law proficiency.
5. Energy, Projects, and Infrastructure
We are actively involved in advising on energy generation projects, infrastructure development, and large-scale public-private partnerships. Our experience spans regulatory approvals, project financing, land acquisition, risk allocation, and contractual frameworks that sustain long-term projects in sectors such as energy, transport, and water.
6. Mining and Natural Resources
We advise mining companies, investors, and landowners on licensing, regulatory compliance, local content requirements, joint ventures, project structuring, and environmental considerations across the extractives sector.
7. Employment and Labour Relations
We support businesses in building compliant, fair employment frameworks, executive contracting, human capital restructuring, and navigating complex workplace disputes with discretion and sensitivity.
8. Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation
We offer strategic, carefully reasoned dispute resolution, leveraging litigation, arbitration, and mediation to resolve commercial conflicts while safeguarding our clients’ interests and preserving long-term relationships where appropriate.
9. Regulatory and Compliance Advisory
We guide businesses through sector-specific regulatory requirements, licensing regimes, governance obligations, and proactive compliance to protect against regulatory exposure.
10. Cybersecurity, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
In collaboration with Soteria Systems, we advise clients on cybersecurity law, governance frameworks, cloud security regulation, incident response planning, and data protection compliance—equipping businesses to grow securely in an increasingly digital world.
11. Startups, Venture Capital, and Private Equity
We support early-stage and high-growth businesses with corporate structuring, fundraising support, venture capital investments, exits, and cross-border scaling, always mindful of the fast-paced realities of innovation.
12. Intellectual Property and Technology Law
We provide robust intellectual property protection, technology transfer agreements, licensing structures, digital rights management, and strategic commercialization frameworks for creators, technology companies, and innovators.
13. Media, Publishing, and Entertainment Law
We offer nuanced legal support for authors, editors, publishers, platforms, and media houses, focusing on rights protection, royalty structuring, licensing, and dispute avoidance.
14. Family, Succession, and Trusts
We provide thoughtful, discreet estate planning and succession solutions for families, founders, and high-net-worth individuals, including the establishment of trusts, cross-border estate structures, and governance frameworks for multi-generational wealth transfer.
A Culture of Authentic Partnership
Our client relationships are anchored in trust, discretion, and long-term partnership.We do not approach our work as transactions to be closed but as partnerships to be stewarded.
We sit with our clients to understand the full picture—their ambitions, their risks, their unspoken concerns—and we build legal structures that reflect that depth of understanding.
We listen. We ask. We think carefully. We build wisely.
Our clients return to us because we are a home for thoughtful lawyering.
Local Expertise, Global Fluency
We are proudly Kenyan with a global mindset.
Through Legacy Law Group and our strategic international networks, we support businesses entering Kenya, expanding across East Africa, and venturing into international markets.
Our cross-border legal solutions are delivered with cultural fluency, regulatory sensitivity, and an appreciation for the subtle dynamics of international commerce.
We are at ease in the boardrooms of Nairobi, the corridors of East African regulators, and the complex cross-border investment structures that define modern commerce.
Stewarding Legacies, Enabling Builders
We are honoured to serve two profound mandates:
Stewarding Legacies: Supporting families, founders, and wealth creators in building, protecting, and transferring value across generations.
Enabling Builders: Empowering innovators, developers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to build enterprises, projects, and ecosystems that endure.
At KNCA, we balance the wisdom of preservation with the energy of creation.
A Thoughtful Future
As KNCA looks forward, our commitment is unwavering:
To enable accelerated market entry and smooth regulatory navigation.
To deliver disciplined transaction execution across sectors.
To support regional and global growth for businesses scaling beyond borders.
To deepen our work in energy, infrastructure, mining, cybersecurity, and ESG-focused projects.
To cultivate a firm of integrity, authenticity, and careful legal craftsmanship.
We are here for work that matters.We are here for enterprises that endure.We are here for legacies that transcend.
That is who we are. That is what we build. That is what we protect.
Reach Out to us at:
Email: info@kiharanjugunaadvocates.com
Tel: +254746629194