Real Estate, Banking and Finance
Overview
Our real estate, banking and finance team is progressive, efficient and dynamic. Our priority is always to give strategic and practical advice to make transactions and our clients’ work simpler.
In banking and finance our team has considerable experience working with both borrowers and lenders. We not only advise clients on traditional finance tools like secured debt but also assist clients with their corporate lending, asset, construction, trade, project and even Islamic financing.
Our spectrum of real estate services includes acquisitions, amalgamations, due diligence, joint ventures, leases (commercial and retail), regulatory consents and sub-divisions. Our clients include large real estate developers, prominent corporates and private investors.
In addition, our team has an in-depth understanding of various registries including all land registries. We also have extensive experience working with property-related government departments. Our robust dispute resolution practice complements our transactional work and allows us to give clients seamless solutions where there are property disputes.
Highlights
- Acting for a developer and advising on a KES 1.4 billion (US$ 14 million) residential development consisting of 20 country homes. Our advice covered the change of use aspects, structuring the development and registration.
- Acting for a developer and advising on a KES 900 million (US$ 9 million) residential development consisting of 30 townhouses. Our advice covered the amalgamation of several parcels of land, change of use aspects, structuring of the development and registration.
- Acting for a leading aviation company in the restructuring of banking facilities worth over KES 500 million (US$ 5 million).
- Acting for a Kenyan company in the purchase of property valued at KES 460 million (US$ 4.6 million).
- Acting for a vendor in the sale of property valued at KES 200 million (US$ 2 million).
- Acting for a Kenyan Sacco in the transfer and registration of properties in different parts of Kenya valued at approximately KES 180 million (US $1.8 million).
- Assisting a prominent transport company in the disposition of a KES 160 million (US$ 1.6 million) property.
- Assisted in the acquisition of property worth approximately KES 150 million (US$ 1.5 million) for a subsidiary of a leading Kenyan Bank.
- Acting for a leading oil transporting company in its KES 150 million (US$ 1.5 million) assets divestiture.
- Acting for an agribusiness company in the takeover of banking facilities and registration of new security instruments for KES 100 million (US$ 1 million).
- Currently advising a large Kenyan mall (with a lettable area of approximately 200,000 ft2 for over 100 potential commercial tenants).
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