ABOUT KABU KARANJA

Associate

Associate
Phone: 020 675 1221/ 020 221 1100
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About

Kabu is an Associate at I&N’s Corporate Commercial Practice. Kabu has over four (4) years of cumulative experience advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and private equity, infrastructure and projects, immigration, intellectual property, media and sports law, competition and consumer protection law, business establishment, climate change and sustainability, general corporate and commercial law.

Credits

  • LL. B HONS (Kenyatta University)
  • DIPLOMA. Kenya School of Law

Membership

  • Law Society of Kenya

Key Practice Area

  • Corporate and Commercial Law,
  • Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
  • Corporate Governance,
  • Property and Real estate

NOTABLE ASSIGNMENTS.

  • M&A: part of the team that is currently advising a Somali-based commercial bank in relation to an intended acquisition of a 62.5% equity stake in a Kenya-registered sharia-compliant bank at a consideration of USD 21,801,348.94;
  • M&A: part of the team that advised a Kenya-registered payment services provider (PSP) in relation to an investment of about USD 6.5 Million by a Ghana-based payment solutions provider;
  • M&A: advised a Kenya-registered renewable solutions provider in relation to the proposed purchase of the majority shareholder’s shares by a Norwegian renewable energy consortium;
  • M&A: part of the team that advised an investment company in the healthcare services sector in relation to the acquisition of a 54.9% equity stake in a hospital holding company from a US-based private equity Firmin a transaction valued at USD 11 Million;
  • Corporate: currently leading a consortium of KPMG and I&N in advising an Ethiopian e-commerce services company in relation to its liquidation and exit of the Ethiopian market on the back of prolonged conflict that has greatly affected business in the country
  • Corporate: advised an education services provider in relation an intended repurchase of shares held by the school’s staff savings and credit cooperative society in the company;
  • Infrastructure and projects: part of the team that is currently providing legal advisory services to a retirement benefits scheme in relation to an intended development of an affordable housing project that is being implemented in a public-private partnership (PPP) model;
  • Commercial transactions: part of the team that was advising a Kenyan software solutions provider in respect of proposed collaboration between the company and a leading commercial bank in Ethiopia relating to the planned provision of by the Company to the Bank of a micro-lending platform and a credit scoring algorithm;
  • 10. Legal Regulatory Compliance: part of the team that successfully conducted a legal regulatory and governance audit of the operations of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) with the aim of ensuring its compliance with the key applicable laws and regulations, provisions of the Mwongozo Code and industry best practice
  • 13. Data protection and privacy: provided legal advice to various corporate clients including financial institutions, hospitals, consulting firms, schools, and hospitality firms, on compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, No. 24 of 2019 and the Regulations made thereunder and registration with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) either as data controllers or data processors or both