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Why U.S. Tech and Agribusiness Firms Are Registering Kenyan Subsidiaries Now

AGOA IS JUST THE BEGINNING A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi AGOA has had a rough eighteen months. The African Growth and Opportunity Act, which lets Kenyan and other sub-Saharan exports enter …

How American Entrepreneurs Can Own a Kenyan Company Without Setting Foot in the Country

FROM DELAWARE TO NAIROBI A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi An American founder who has only ever registered a Delaware LLC or C-corp tends to assume foreign incorporation means flights, embassies, and …

The American Founder’s No-Nonsense Guide to Incorporating in Kenya

SILICON VALLEY MEETS SILICON SAVANNAH A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Microsoft didn’t put a billion dollars into a Naivasha data centre on a hunch. Kenya’s tech sector, now home to more …

An Ethiopian Investor’s Blueprint for Company Registration in Kenya

THE NAIROBI GATEWAY STRATEGY A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Ethiopia has spent the past two years dismantling, piece by piece, the foreign exchange controls that used to make investors nervous.

The Tax-Efficient Investment Vehicle Every Kenyan Fund Manager Should Understand

INSIGHT · INVESTMENT & CORPORATE STRUCTURING Structures that attract international capital, not repel it. Many investors lose capital efficiency not because their businesses are bad, but because their structures are. A well-designed investment vehicle can …

You Signed a Contract in Nairobi. It’s Now Governed by a Law You Don’t Understand.

A Direct Primer for Foreign Investors and Businesses on the Essentials of Kenya’s Law of Contract Act (Cap. 23) and the Key Differences from Common Law Jurisdictions The Trap That Catches Foreign Investors Kenya is …

What to Do the Day a Contractor Vanishes

“He Left Your Half-Built House Like That”: Yesterday the site was buzzing. Today there is silence — no workers, no equipment, no contractor. Your half-built walls stand open to the elements, your payments have been …

The Civil Claim That Runs Alongside the Criminal Charge

Why victims of assault in Kenya have two separate legal roads — and why most only take one The Assault Happened. What Comes Next? Picture a fairly ordinary Monday morning at a Nairobi workplace. A …

Why the distinction between a branch office and a subsidiary sounds academic until the KRA asks about it

Picture a boardroom somewhere. Frankfurt, perhaps, or Bangalore, or Dubai. A multinational is ready to enter the Kenyan market — a market that has been growing, that looks promising, and that its regional director has …

Defective Goods, Misleading Advertising, and the Right to Redress

A Quiet Body of Kenyan Law That Is Finally Starting to Get Noticed The Promise That Turned Out Not to Be True Picture the scene: you have spent three weeks watching an advertisement — on …