Lorna’s expertise is broad covering corporate law, intellectual property and TMT. As the head of the TMT practice at the Firm, Lorna offers transactional, compliance and regulatory advisory in all commercial phases of this sector. Some of her work involves advisory on telecoms, technology transfer, e-commerce, data protection and privacy, content creation, broadcasting, social media and new media.
A seasoned transactional lawyer and the partner in charge of our corporate and commercial practice, Lorna has been recognised for her corporate & commercial work by global leading legal directory IFLR1000. She regularly advises clients on business establishment, contracts, competition law, consumer protection, joint ventures, private equity plus transaction-related regulatory and compliance issues.
Lorna also heads our formidable IP practice and where she works on some of the region’s largest and most complex IP matters. She also advises clients on IP-related commercial aspects of distribution, franchising and M&A deals.
Lorna is dual-qualified and registered as a trademark and patent agent in both Kenya and Rwanda. Her expertise covers ARIPO, OAPI and international registration systems. She is highly regarded for her first-rate contentious and non-contentious IP work. Plus, for being an IP thought leader, especially on anti-counterfeit law.
Several international leading legal directories including Chambers Global, Managing IP and WTR1000 have consistently recognised her(for many years) as one of Kenya’s finest IP lawyers, citing among other things – her promptness, attention to detail, effectiveness and strategic advice.
On 23rd February, 2022, the National Assembly passed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2021(“the Bill”). The Bill seeks to among others, set the percentages of revenue received by artistes or copyright holders and telecommunication operators from ring back tunes. Currently, artistes receive only 16 percent of revenue generated from the Skiza
28th January, 2022 marks this year’s Data Protection Day. In commemorating the Data Protection Day and the 41st anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (“Convention 108”), we look at the strides made towards data protection in
The Rwanda Development Board’s Intellectual Property Division (“RDB’s IP Division”) published the Guidelines for Intellectual Property Registration 2020 (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines are intended to fill gaps on procedural aspects of trade mark, patent, utility model, industrial designs and copyright registration. The RDB’s IP Division has now commenced the implementation
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