Practice Areas
Banking, Securities and Finance
Our securitization practice is a key part of the firm’s wider structured banking security and finance services. We advise and offer legal services for financial institutions on loan securitization by proposing, drafting and preparing various finance security documents like charges, commercial benefit agreements, corporate and personal guarantees, project financing, trade financing, asset financing, crowd funding, digital/mobile financing and chattel mortgages.
We also advise on sourcing of funds, negotiations and drafting of finance contracts, joint venture agreements and structuring of projects. We deal with all forms of financing including debt financing, equity financing and real estate investment trust (REITS).
Civil and Commercial Litigation
The Firm has extensive trial practice experience at all levels of the Kenyan Court system ranging from Administrative Tribunals to the Coirt of Appeal to Suprime Court on an extremely wide range of Civil and Criminal cases, Defamation Proceedings, Labour Matters, Contractual Claims, Immigration Cases, Judicial Review and Injunction Proceedings.
We also advise on sourcing of funds, negotiations and drafting of finance contracts, joint venture agreements and structuring of projects. We deal with all forms of financing including debt financing, equity financing and real estate investment trust (REITS).
Business Establishment, Compliance and Restructure
VAA offers legal services to SMEs and Multinationals. We advise on set-up options, corporate and tax structures of local companies, subsidiaries, branch offices/foreign companies, foundations, trusts, business names, partnership agreements, share subscription agreements, trust documents safeguarding beneficial owners’ interest.
We also offer advice to start-up businesses on matters relating to licensing requirements and all requisite contracts required to launch business operations such as leasing of office space, employment contracts and human resource manuals, supply contracts and sale agreements inter alia.
We offer dedicated company secretarial support to our clients including restructuring of companies, compliance and advise on corporate governance and good corporate practices.
Conveyancing, Real Estate and Leasing
We advise on the sale, purchase and refinancing of properties. The Firm acts for Vendors, Purchasers and Lenders in the acquisition and disposal of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural property.
The Firm also advises on the preparation of sale agreements, leases, transfers, charges, caveats and all other instruments related to property transactions; and also undertake the registration thereof countrywide.
We take pride in our ability to bring deep technical skills and a fast turnaround time to create and foster strong client relationships.
Corporate and Commercial Law
Our Corporate and Commercial Department is one of the core Departments. We advise our local and international clients on complex transactions.
The depth of our experience means that we service our clients from business formation through the stages of the company life-cycle and the transactions that they engage in.
We also advise on sourcing of funds, negotiations and drafting of finance contracts, joint venture agreements and structuring of projects. We deal with all forms of financing including debt financing, equity financing and real estate investment trust (REITS).
Dispute Resolution
We have a wealth of experience in settling disputes touching on commercial transactions, partnerships and shareholders’/directors disputes, labour disputes, land and environmental disputes, infringement of intellectual property, debt recovery, banking law and banking securities. Regardless of the legal problem, our mission is to vigorously represent our client’s interests.
Employment Law & Labour Relations
The Firm advises on various aspects of Employment Law, including industrial disputes, pension arrangements, collective bargaining agreements and other employment related matters and regularly attend the various Labour Department Offices for various conciliation meetings.
Family Law and Succession
The Firm acts for clients in matters concerning the preparation of wills, setting up of trusts, applications for grants of letters of administration and probate, and it also handles matrimonial matters i.e. divorce and separation and maintenance proceedings, children matter’s and other related proceedings at the Children’s Court.
Debt Collection, Security Enforcement and Realization
The Firm is regularly engaged in debt collection proceedings and repossessions and closely liaises with
Auctioneers, Values, process servers, private investigators and other court officers and bailiffs who provide assistance in debt recovery.
Oil and Gas
This is a new frontier in Kenya. In the advent of discovery of commercially viable crude oil in Turkana, our principals have vast experience in oil and gas and are well equipped to advise and represent oil companies, drilling and service companies, suppliers of oilfield equipment and technology, owners of all types of infrastructure (including National, Host Communities and County Governments), facilities and equipment for the development and extraction of hydrocarbons.
We also advise our clients on upstream, midstream and downstream related activities on matters relating contractual, operational, regulatory & compliance, obtaining Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from host communities inter alia to ensure that the project is uninterrupted.
Renewable Energy
VAA has experience in providing legal advisory services to independent power producers (IPPs), project developers, investors, financial institutions and other key players in the renewable energy industry. We offer an array of services including drafting and reviewing of various commercial contracts drafting and reviewing project acquisition and structuring documents, environmental permits, legal and regulatory compliance and land rights acquisitions.
We also have experience and advise clients in negotiating Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with government and financing agreements with third party investors. Our range of expertise spans off-grid and grid-connected solar, geothermal, wind and small hydro projects
Insurance, Personal Injuries & Third Party Recoveries
We handle all insurance related matters including interpretation of insurance contracts, representation of insured’s interests with Insurance Regulatory Authority, WIBA related matters, road traffic accidents, work-related accidents and personal injuries matters to ensure our clients’ interests are fully represented.
We also pursue third party recovery matters from the negligent third parties with a success rate of 95% on assigned matters due for recover. We also have experience in pursuing and negotiating ‘knock for knock’ recoveries in line with set guidelines by the industry participants.