The firm’s areas of practice include the following:
- Banking and Finance
Our Advocates advise and act for several banks and financial institutions by providing legal services ranging from, drafting and execution of hire purchase facility agreements, overdraft facilities agreements, letters of offer, letters of hypothecation, bills of lading, letters of credit among others.
The team also advises our clients on new forms of banking services brought about by e-banking services, off shore banking ventures, correspondent banking and pay-through banking services. At Mwadumbo & Company Advocates we prepare effective customer due diligence (CDD) and Know Your Customer (KYC) policies for our clients, which policies aim at ensuring that our clients transact with credit worthy customers while at the same time be able to detect suspicious transactions as part of complying with the Central Bank of Kenya regulations. We also advice our clients on the banking and finance regulatory frameworks as well as on anti-money laundering programmes and policies as expected by the Central Bank of Kenya and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
In availing all these services, Mwadumbo & Company Advocates’ objective is to ensure that our client’s interests are well protected and that the terms and conditions of the multi-million contracts entered into by our customers do not prejudice their operations whatsoever.
- Property Law and Conveyancing
Mwadumbo & Company Advocates undertakes all forms of property and conveyancing transactions ranging from, sale of land, subdivision of land, sale agreements, land transfers, lease and sub-lease agreements, mortgages and charges, chattels and share transfers agreements and all forms of transactions relating to sale and acquisition of property rights and interest. We also conduct land and title due diligence through formal and official searches at various land registries with a view to ensure that our clients acquire valid titles and properties.
Mwadumbo & Company Advocates has so far advised and enabled several persons to sale and purchase land, maisonettes, acquire interest in apartments, condominiums and flats within major cities and in various counties within the Republic of Kenya.
- Preparation of securities
At Mwadumbo & Company Advocates we prepare and register securities for our corporate and private clients. The work includes drafting, perfection and registration of mortgages charges, corporate and personal guarantees, debentures, chattel mortgages, hire purchase loan facility instruments etc.
In preparing the securities Mwadumbo & Company Advocates, aspires to ensuring that the securities are well created and perfected to the satisfaction of our client and for the purpose of safeguarding their interest.
- Corporate and Commercial Law
We offer reliable and prompt legal services to our corporate and private clients. Among the commercial and corporate law services that we offer include, mergers and acquisitions agreements, take-over agreements, franchising and joint venture engagements. We also prepare commercial transaction agreements for instance aircraft finance and leasing agreements, supply and distribution agreements. Within this realm, we also deal with registration of all intellectual property rights, company incorporation, incorporation of trusts, NGOs, Societies, partnerships, business entities and charitable organisations and foundations.
- Litigation and Mediation
Mwadumbo & Company Advocates’ litigation and Mediation team is made up by some of the most agile litigators and astute mediators in town. They endeavour to close contentious cum litigious matters or potentially litigious matters on or before court stage. The strategy is informed by the fact that Mwadumbo & Company Advocates endeavours to ensure that legal disputes involving our clients are closed using cost effective channels friendly to our clients and at the same time avert a win-loser scenario.
However, in case disputes cannot be settled using alternative dispute resolutions mechanisms, our advocates are always ready to battle out in court in the best interest of our clients. As such, our firm has litigated contentious disputes falling within the ambit of commercial and civil laws. We handle matters concerning, constitutional and election petitions, industrial and labour law litigation, debt recovery claims, insurance claims, contentious bank and financial transactions, enforcement of securities, enforcement of intellectual property rights, judicial review and public interest ligation matters, consumer protection and professional negligence claims, tortuous liability claims, land and environmental disputes e.t.c
- Family Law, Probate and Succession Practice
Our Advocates offer legal service to our clients on matters relating to family law, probate and succession matters. In particular, the section deals with the following:
- Divorce petition
- Child support proceedings
- Division of matrimonial property upon dissolution of marriage
- Drafting of wills
- Preparing, obtaining and confirmation of grants
- Re-sealing of foreign grants
- Administration of Estates
- In corporation and administration of trusts and trust funds
- Transfer and division of testamentary assets
- Powers of attorneys
- Criminal Law
Mwadumbo & Company Advocates endeavours to ensure that the rule of the law is not only upheld but seen to be upheld at all times by our criminal justice system. In this regard, our advocates appear in court on behalf of our clients in various criminal proceedings emanating from capital offences, felonies and misdemeanours.
Mwadumbo & Company Advocates have also watched brief for major commercial and financial companies in matters relating to banking frauds, bouncing cheques, tax evasion and deposit of crime proceeds.
The team also undertakes pro-bono briefs and continue to do so for the sole purpose of dispensing justice to all.
