Clients note the ‘technical knowledge, quick thinking', and 'market awareness' of the corporate and commercial department at Anjarwalla & Khanna. The team leverages significant full-service capacities to advise clients on a range of transactional matters, including cross border M&A, capital markets, competition, joint ventures, and restructurings. The team fields several prominent African and multinational companies as clients, and is a key port of call for complex, multi-jurisdictional mandates. Practice head Dominic Rebelo is praised for his ’ability to grasp the key commercial aspects’. Karim Anjarwalla is highly active in corporate and M&A transactions, while Anne Kiunuhe co-heads the team’s competition department. Roddy McKean and Rosa Nduati-Mutero are both frequently seen in corporate governance and employment corporate transactional mandates. Daniel Ngumy, Kenneth Njuguna, James Karanja, and Wangui Kanairu are also key members of the team, especially in tax-related transactional matters.
Testimonials
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‘Karim Anjarwalla - a partner who goes over and beyond to maintain and improve client partner relationship/equation. He is forward thinking, anticipates issues that could come up and has a ready solution. He is always available for consultation and never makes an in house counsel feel inadequate.'
'Technical knowledge, quick thinking, market awareness, ability to innovate and use of technology to deliver effective solutions.’
Key clients
- Atraco Group
- AfricInvest
Work highlights
- Acting for Atraco Group, a large manufacturing group with diversified operations in the UAE, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Egypt and customer relationships across the United States of America and Europe, in connection with the sale of its garment manufacturing business in the UAE, Ethiopia and Kenya to Gokaldas Exports (Gokaldas), a leading manufacture and exporter based in India.
- Acting for AfricInvest, a leading African private equity firm, in connection with the acquisition of a 10.13% stake in I&M Group, a financial banking group in Eastern Africa that holds banking institutions in five East African countries and is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange from British International Investment by way of a block trade sale on the NSE.