KENYA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Noella Lubano, Paul Kamara, Kateline Mang’ich and Anne Cheloti Oraro & Company Advocates Oraro & Company Advocates is a full-service, mar - ket-leading African law firm established in 1977, with a strong focus on dispute resolution and corporate and commercial law. With a dedicated team of part - ners, senior associates, associates and support staff, the firm has consistently been ranked by Chambers Global as a top-tier firm in Kenya, and arguably has one of the largest dispute resolution teams in the country. Oraro & Company Advocates is involved in most of the headline and non-traditional areas of law,
including construction disputes, insolvency and re - structuring cases, tax disputes and international ar - bitration (in which the team represented one of the biggest trade unions in Kenya). Oraro & Company Advocates is a full affiliate member of AB & David Africa (ABDA), a pan-African business law network committed to ensuring that businesses and projects succeed in Africa by helping clients minimise the risks associated with doing business on the continent.
Authors
Noella Lubano is a partner at Oraro & Company Advocates and a recognised dispute resolution and arbitration expert. With more than 15 years of experience, she specialises in the tracing and recovery of assets,
various suits arising from their regulatory and statutory management roles.
Kateline Mang’ich is an associate in the dispute resolution department at Oraro & Company Advocates, and specialises in banking and commercial disputes, insolvency, arbitration and general commercial
commercial litigation and shareholder disputes, and is also well regarded for her international arbitration and insolvency and restructuring expertise. Noella contributes a wealth of leadership knowledge and experience, and has handled various insolvency cases, including representing various leading banks in insolvency proceedings against some of the largest companies in East Africa. She has also represented the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation in its role as receiver and liquidator of various collapsed banks.
contract matters. She was part of the team acting for a bank in liquidation in Kenya in a bid to recover sums from its former directors, and part of the team that aided a major bank in Kenya to recover funds advanced to one of the biggest cereal companies in Kenya. Kateline is currently on the team acting for various banks in Kenya to recover funds from an insolvent steel company.
Paul Kamara is a senior associate in the dispute resolution department at Oraro & Company Advocates. He has successfully represented and advised banks, regulators and government corporations in complex litigation
Anne Cheloti is a lawyer in training at Oraro & Company Advocates, with a keen interest in corporate commercial law and insolvency. In the course of her training, Anne has been part of the team that successfully placed a
before Superior Courts in Kenya. His track record includes defending a receiver manager and a consortium of banks in a landmark enforcement dispute before the Supreme Court, and successfully representing the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Central Bank of Kenya in
major cereal company in Kenya under receivership over a debt of KES4.9 billion; she was also part of the team that placed one of the country’s largest truck and bus body builders under administration for the recovery of KES1.1 billion.
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