The Kenyan constituent of the Africa Legal Network, Anjarwalla & Khanna is home to a highly specialised and reputable banking, finance, and insolvency practice, whose expertise is employed by well-known domestic and international lenders requiring assistance across a range of sector-specific transactions. Syndicated debt financing, aviation finance, project finance, security transactions, fintech, capital markets, and debt financing are among the team’s strengths. Strongly entrenched in the insolvency space and leveraging extensive banking and finance experience, Sonal Tejpar leads the team, joined by Akash Devani, a reliable resource for large commercial lending transactions, Mona Doshi, a specialist in Islamic finance, Shellomith Irungu, who has a significant understanding of the energy and infrastructure sectors, and James Njenga Mungai, who focuses on transactions, insolvency, and restructuring.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘The team provides cutting-edge innovative advice and hosts some of the best workshops/seminars/CLE events for their clients and in-house counsel. You can always rely on them for best-in-class advice and Magic Circle-like practice in Nairobi – their work ethic is second to none.’
- ‘I find Sonal Tejpar and her team extremely responsive, innovative, hard-working and very client-focused. They are, quite literally, my sounding boards and first port of call for complex financings and deal advisory.’
Key clients
- Absa Bank Kenya
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Work highlights
- Acted for Absa Bank Kenya in connection with an approximately $50.9m asset-backed finance transaction with Acorn Project Three for funding the development of 10 separate purpose-built student accommodation towers.
- Acted for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in connection with a $12.7m financing to The Avenue Group, one of the largest players in the secondary healthcare market in Kenya.