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Kenneth Kamaitha

Kaplan & Stratton

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Kenya
Practice Areas:
Project finance
Private equity
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Biography

Ken is a highly regarded project and infrastructure lawyer. He is the lead counsel on some of the significant infrastructure projects being undertaken by the firm. Ken has a strong background in M&A and also heads the firm’s business establishment and company secretarial practices.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Local counsel to Total S.A in the global acquisition of Maersk Oil & Gas A/S which holds interests in the Tullow Oil exploration blocks in Turkana Kenya.
  • Local counsel to Unilever PLC in the global sale of its spreads business valued at USD 1.8 billion.
  • Acting for Sinohydro Corporation (a member of PowerChina group of companies) as local counsel in connection with negotiations with the Kenyan public contracting authority for the development of various roads in Kenya under the Kenya Roads Annuity Program.
Practice areas
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Sector specialisations
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Social infrastructure
Bar admissions
  • High Court of Kenya
Association memberships
  • Law Society of Kenya
  • Commonwealth Lawyers Association
Academic qualifications
  • Kenya School of Law - Bar Qualifying Examinations
  • Commissioner for Oaths
  • University of Nairobi, Bachelor of Laws Honours 
Address:
Nairobi
Tel:+254 20 2841000 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.kaplanstratton.com/