Commercial and Conveyancing: Advisory and Transactional Services
The Commercial and Conveyancing Transactions Department provides a wide range of advisory and transactional services to clients, including undertaking due diligence, registration of companies, trusts, NGOs, business names, societies and churches. We also advise on restructurings of corporate bodies, changes in shareholding and directorship, and the corporate records and filings that keep an entity compliant.
Before a client commits to a purchase, investment or partnership, we carry out due diligence: official searches at the lands and companies registries, review of title documents, encumbrances, licences and contracts, and a clear written report on the risks identified and how they can be managed.
We offer sound advice to our clients in all conveyancing transactions, including sales and purchases, transfers, leases, sub-divisions and charges, and on all documents in relation to perfection of securities on behalf of banks, micro-finance institutions, SACCOs and other financial institutions. We handle the transaction from the agreement for sale through stamp duty assessment, consents and registration, so that the client receives a clean, registered title.
We liaise with land valuers, surveyors, architects, environmental experts and planners to ensure our clients are well informed on the various requirements. For developers, this includes advice on the approvals, change of user, extension of leases and other regulatory steps needed before and during a real estate project.
This department also provides legal services in the registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including trademarks and patents at the Kenya Industrial Property Institute, and acts as corporate adviser to a large number of Kenyan and international businesses and corporations, from incorporation and start-up through financing, licensing, employment and regulatory compliance, to sales and acquisitions.
What We Handle
- Due diligence
- Registration of companies, trusts, NGOs, business names, societies and churches
- Restructuring of corporate bodies
- Transfers, conveyances, leases, sub-divisions and charges
- Chattels mortgages, debentures, escrow account agreements, deeds of assignment of rental income and deeds of guarantee
- Advisory to developers on approvals required for real estate projects
- Change of user, extension of Government leases, partition, transmission, apportionment of land rates and rent, and processing of Government leases
- Enforcement of trademarks, patents, industrial designs, utility models and copyrights
- Registration of trademarks and patents at the Kenya Industrial Property Institute
- Corporate advisory: incorporation and start-up, management structures and shareholding, employment law, licensing and regulatory, financing, environmental compliance, and sales and acquisition