Sammy Ndolo

Sammy Ndolo is the Kenya Managing Partner, and Partner in our Corporate & Commercial, Banking, Finance & Projects, and Competition Law practice areas. Sammy is a leading specialist in finance and banking, restructurings and workouts, capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

• Top 40 under 40 Men, Business Daily, 2015
• International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) Secondee
• Best Graduating Student, LLM University of Warwick, 2010
• Warwick Global Advantage Award
• Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust Scholar

• LLM (Distinction), International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, University of Warwick
• LLB (Honours), University of Nairobi

Advising

• International Finance Corporation in connection with its multi-million dollar loan facilities to a leading local bank.
• The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited in connection with its multi-million dollar trade finance facilities to a local petroleum company.
• Standard Chartered Bank on a multi-million dollar tower asset acquisition financing in Kenya.
• A South African fund on its multi-million dollar structured commodities financing to a local company.
• An international fund on its multi-million dollar subordinated debt facilities (Tier 2 capital) to a local bank.
• A developer in relation to the senior and mezzanine debt financing of its 70MW geothermal power plant.
• An international fund on the securitisation structure and investment in BBOXX, a manufacturer and distributor of solar systems.
• Nairobi Securities Exchange on its demutualisation and self-listing on the NSE.
• NSE listed Kenya Airways in its KES 20.68 billion rights issue (one of the largest ever in East Africa).
• NSE listed Uchumi Supermarkets in its cross listing on the Uganda Stock Exchange and the Dar-es-Salaam Stock Exchange and rights issue in     Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
• NSE listed Kenya Commercial Bank having subsidiaries in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan in the re-organisation of its corporate structure resulting in a non-operating holding company domiciled in Kenya.
• Johnson Controls on the Kenyan law aspects in its sale of certain stock and assets to CBRE.
• CommScope on the Kenyan law aspects on its purchase of certain business and assets from Tyco.
• Times Media in the acquisition of a significant shareholding in Radio Africa.
• Elewana Collection in its acquisition of Cheli & Peacock group of companies.
• Distell in its acquisition of 26% shareholding in Kenya Wine Agencies (the first successful privatization since 2006)

• Law Society of Kenya