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THE LAWYER AFRICA Top 100 Litigation Lawyers in Kenya 2023

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THE LAWYER AFRICA Top 100 Litigation Lawyers in Kenya 2023

THE LAWYER AFRICA published the TOP LITIGATION LAWYERS IN KENYA 2023 list with three categories, namely, Litigation Hall of Fame in Kenya in 2023 (representing the Most Distinguished Dispute Resolution Lawyers in Kenya), Top 100 Litigation Lawyers in Kenya in 2023 (representing the Leading Dispute Resolution Lawyers in Kenya) and Up-and-Coming Litigation Lawyers in Kenya in 2023 (representing the Most Promising Dispute Resolution Lawyers in Kenya.

These are the Leading Lawyers listed in THE LAWYER AFRICA | TOP 100 LITIGATION LAWYERS IN KENYA 2023

  1. Aisha Abdallah, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
  2. Anne Babu, Anne Babu & Co. Advocates
  3. Anthony Njogu, RONN Law Advocates LLP
  4. Apollo Mboya, Apollo & Co. Advocates
  5. Augustus Khisa, COOTOW Advocates.
  6. Benson Millimo, Millimo, Muthomi & Co. Advocates
  7. Carolyne Kamende, Kamende DC & Co. Advocates
  8. Cecil G. Miller Jnr, Miller & Company
  9. Cecil Kuyo, Coulson Harney LLP
  10. Colbert Ojiambo, Acorn Law Advocates LLP
  11. Collette Akwana, CMS Daly Inamdar
  12. Cosma Wetende, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates.
  13. Cyprian Wekesa, Wekesa & Simiyu
  14. Danson Mugo, JP Advocates LLP
  15. Danstan Omari Mogaka, Musyoki Mogaka & Co. Advocates
  16. David Otieno, Owiti, Otieno & Ragot Advocates
  17. Davis C. Sang, Sang & Sang Advocates LLP
  18. DBM Mosota, MMA Advocates LLP
  19. Deborah Bubi, Kogweno & Bubi Advocates LLP
  20. Desmond Odhiambo, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (Kieti Law LLP)
  21. Diana Ogula, IKM Advocates (DLA Piper Africa)
  22. Muthomi Thionkulu, Muthomi & Karanja Advocates
  23. Duncan Okatch, Okatch & Partners
  24. Edward Omotii, E.N. Omotii & Associates
  25. Edwin Mukele, Mukele Moni & Co. Advocates
  26. Elias Masika, TripleOKLaw Advocates LLP
  27. Elias Mutuma, Mutuma, Gichuru & Associates Advocates
  28. Elisha Zebedee Ongoya, Ongoya & Wambola Advocates
  29. Emmanuel Mumia, MG Law Advocates
  30. Emmanuel Wetangula, Mohammed Muigai LLP
  31. Eric Gumbo, G&A Advocates LLP
  32. Eric Kivuva, McKay Advocates.
  33. Esther Ang’awa, Ang’awa & Company Advocates.
  34. Esther Kinyenje, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates
  35. Faith Macharia, Anjarwalla & Khanna Advocates
  36. Fredrick Oundo, Oundo Muriuki & Company Advocates
  37. Geoffrey Imende, Mohammed Muigai LLP
  38. Geoffrey Nyaanga, Nyaanga & Mugisha Advocates
  39. George King’ori, Ashitiva Advocates LLP
  40. George Murugu, Murugu, Rigoro & Co. Advocates
  41. Gladys Mwangi, Nderi & Mwangi Advocates
  42. Grace Kinyanjui, CMS Daly Inamdar
  43. Grishon Thuo, Njoroge Regeru & Company
  44. Guto Mogere, Mohammed Muigai LLP
  45. Ham Lagat, Ham & Hamsley Advocates
  46. Harrison Kinyanjui, J. Harrison Kinyanjui & Co. Advocates
  47. Hiram Nyaburi, IKM Advocates (DLA Piper Africa)
  48. Irene Kashindi, Munyao, Muthama & Kashindi Advocates
  49. James Wairoto, MW & Company
  50. Jeremy Njenga, J.M. Njenga & Co. Advocates
  51. John Njomo, Kamotho Njomo & Co. Advocates
  52. Jomo Nyaribo, MMAN Advocates
  53. Joshua Magee wa Magee Maina, Magee Law LLP
  54. Julie Soweto, Soweto & Company Advocates
  55. Kananu Mutea, Gikera & Vadgama Advcoates
  56. Kethi Kilonzo, Kilonzo & Company
  57. Khaseke Georgiadis, Mohammed Muigai LLP
  58. Lena Onyango, ANL Advocates
  59. Lilian Renee Omondi, Oraro & Company
  60. Manasses Mwangi Kabui, Manasses Mwangi & Associates
  61. Martin Gitonga, MM Gitonga Advocates LLP
  62. Martin Munyu, IKM Advocates (DLA Piper Africa, Kenya)
  63. Maruti Khamala, Partner, Simba & Simba Advocates
  64. Marysheila Onyango-Oduor, TripleOKLaw Advocates LLP.
  65. Maureen Maitai, Maitai Nyawira & Associates Advocates
  66. Melissa Ngania, Ng’ania & Company Advocates
  67. Michael Muchemi, Muchemi & Co. Advocates
  68. Michi Kirimi, Dentons Hamilton, Harrison & Mathews
  69. Milly Jalega Odari, IKM Advcoates (DLA Piper Africa, Kenya)
  70. Mohammed Balala, Balala & Abed Advocates
  71. Moses Chelanga, Chelanga Chambers Advocates
  72. Ndegwa Njiru, Ndegwa & Ndegwa Associates
  73. Nelson Havi, Havi & Company
  74. Noella Lubano, Oraro & Company
  75. Ochiel Dudley, Katiba Institute.
  76. Omwanza Ombati, Nchogu, Omwanza & Nyasimi Advocates
  77. Paul Kiragu Wathuta, Kiragu Wathuta & Company
  78. Paul Maingi Musyimi, Maingi Musyimi & Company
  79. Paul Nyaosi, McKay Advocates.
  80. Peter Njeru, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates
  81. Peter Wanyama, Manyonge Wanyama & Associates Advocates
  82. Philip Nyachoti, Nyachoti & Company
  83. Ramadhan Abubakar, J.K. Kibicho & Co. Advocates
  84. Richard Kamotho, Kamotho Njomo & Co. Advocates
  85. Robinson Kigen, Wesonga, Mutembei & Kigen Advocates
  86. Roger Sagana, Sagana Biriq & Co. Advocates
  87. Ruth W. Wainaina-Kemboy, Kemboy Law LLP
  88. Sean Omondi, RONN Advocates LLP
  89. Seth Ojienda, Ojienda & Co. Advocates
  90. Stephen Biko Ligunya, Rachier & Amollo Advocates
  91. Stephen Gikera, Gikera & Vadgama Advocates
  92. Stephen K. Bundotich, Kale Maina & Bundotich Advocates
  93. Terry Mwango, Coulson Harney LLP (Bowmans)
  94. Wilberforce Akello, Robinson Harris Advocates LLP
  95. Wilfred Lusi, CM Advocates LLP
  96. Wilfred Nyamu, Nyamu & Nyamu Co. Advocates
  97. William Kabaiku, Wainaina Ireri Advocates LLP
  98. Willis Otieno, Otieno Ogola & Company Advocates
  99. Wilson Gathogo, Lesinko, Njoroge & Gathogo Advocates
  100. Zephania K. Yego, Z.K. Yego Law Offices

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Chambers Global Guide 2025 Lists Prof. Kariuki Muigua Top Arbitrator in Kenya

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Hon Prof. Kariuki Muigua, OGW, PhD, Managing Partner, Kariuki Muigua & Co. Advocates ranked Top Arbitrator in Kenya by Chambers Global Guide 2025

University of Nairobi Professor of Environmental Law and Dispute Resolution and Managing Partner of Kariuki Muigua & Co. Advocates Hon Prof. Kariuki Muigua, OGW, PhD is one of the Six(6) Kenyans listed in Band 1 of Chambers Global Guide Dispute Resolution: Arbitrators 2025, the ultimate highlight of the best of the best in Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice globally, regionally and nationally. Prof. Muigua is listed for the 8th Year in a row alongside three Senior Counsel and two of the most experienced arbitrators in the country as evidence of his pinnacle status in arbitration practice in the country, the region, the continent and the globe.

Chambers Global Guide 2025, the world’s most prestigious lawyers ranking directory, hails Prof. Kariuki Muigua as having “an astute understanding of arbitration, with a practice that touches upon commercial, constitutional and environmental law.” Chambers Global Guide has in previous editions described Prof. Kariuki Muigua as ‘a highly respected arbitrator and mediator,” who has “been involved in several ground-breaking arbitrations”, is “at the forefront of arbitration,” and has “written a number of books on arbitration referred to by courts and judges” and “publishes a lot of articles on alternative dispute resolution and arbitration.” 

As leader of ADR and Arbitration Practice in Kenya, Prof. Kariuki Muigua was the winner of the inaugural CIArb (Kenya) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021, highest award that any Kenyan  Arbitrator can be given by his peers. Prof. Kariuki Muigua was also awarded the LSK Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practitioner of the Year at the Nairobi Legal Awards 2021, as proof that legal practitioners in Kenya esteem him the best arbitrator.

At the East African level, Prof. Kariuki Muigua is the author of the region’s bestseller on Arbitration, Settling Disputes Through Arbitration, now in its Fourth (4th) Edition. He was also feted as Africa Arbitrator of the Year 2022 at the African Arbitration Awards held on the sidelines of East African Arbitration Conference held in Kigali Rwanda. He is also the Editor of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch), East Africa’s leading peer-reviewed ADR journal.

As a leading arbitrator in Africa, Prof. Kariuki Muigua has not only presided over numerous cross border arbitration mandates, he is an acknowledged leader of arbitrators in the continent. He is the CIArb Africa Trustee Emeritus having elected unopposed and served from 2019 to 2022. He was awarded the African Arbitrator/ADR Practitioner of the Year by the African Arbitration Association in 2022 for his immense contribution to growth of arbitration in Africa as a practitioner, author, scholar and leader.

In the International Arbitration circle, Prof.  Kariuki Muigua is distinguished as a practitioner of international arbitration as nominated Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague representing the Republic of Kenya. He has handled numerous international arbitration matters both as sole arbitrator and as a member of a panel of arbitrators and is listed in the panels of leading international arbitration institutions across the world. He was recently awarded Presidential Commendation of Order of Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW) for his leadership in dispute resolution in Kenya including arbitration.

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George Kashindi: Top Statesperson in Commercial Law in 2024

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George Kashindi, Partner at Munyao, Muthama & Kashindi Advocates and Member, Tax Appeals Tribunal

Partner, Munyao Muthama & Kashindi Advocates (MMK) & Member, Tax Appeals Tribunal.

  • Co-Author of Kashindis’ Digest of Employment Cases (Flamekeepers Publishing, Nairobi, 2020).
  • LLM (UoN)
  • LLB (Hons) UoN
  • Dip. Law (KSL)
  • Admitted 2002

Practice Areas

  • Taxation and Revenue
  • Regulatory and Compliance
  • Advisory and dispute resolution
  • Compliance and Governance Audits
  • Public Procurement
  • Civil and Commercial Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Energy and Natural Resources
  • Constitutional Law
  • Judicial Review
  • Employment and Labour Relations

Biography

George is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over 22 years of experience. He is a Partner of Munyao, Muthama & Kashindi Advocates (MMK Advocates) previously in charge of the Nairobi office (now on sabbatical) and Member of Tax Appeals Tribunal. George started his legal career in the well- known firm of Rachier and Amollo where he gained a wealth of experience in a broad spectrum of legal matters. Subsequent to leaving Rachier & Amollo, George trained at the Kenya Revenue Authority Training Institute for 2 years and thereafter worked at Kenya Revenue Authority as Senior Legal Counsel for 5 years. With this background, George has a very solid understanding of the tax policy and legislative framework and has many years’ experience in litigation, tax dispute resolution, tax investigations and prosecutions, interpretation of the tax statutes and advising on tax policy and legislation. He possesses a wealth of knowledge in dealings with senior revenue and treasury officials. He holds an LLM in Financial Services with a specialisation in tax and has acted in a number of jurisprudence setting tax matters.

George has extensive experience in regulatory and compliance advisory and litigation and has acted for a number of Kenya’s leading regulators including the Kenya Airports Authority, Communication Authority, Agriculture Food Authority, Energy Regulatory Commission, Kenya Forest Service, Engineers Board of Kenya, National Transport and Safety Authority, NGOs Coordination Board, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, National Hospital Insurance Fund to name but a few. He is well versed in regulatory law and practice, compliance and governance matters.

George has extensive experience in conducting legal, regulatory, compliance and governance audits and is respected in this field as a leading expert. He has conducted the audits on blue chip companies listed in the bourse, leading corporates, parastatals and other government entities among other clients. His previous and existing clients include Safaricom, Post Bank, Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), National Hospital Insurance Fund, and Technical University of Mombasa among others. The highly rated Legal, Compliance and Governance Audit practice headed by George is accredited by the Law Society of Kenya.

George also advises clients on public procurement, NGOs and Charities law, employment and labour relations, energy and natural resources, immigration among others. He is also in charge of running training portfolio of the firm.

Educational and professional qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Nairobi 2000
  • Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law 2001
  • Admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, 2002
  • Masters Degree in law (Financial Services Law), University of Nairobi 2017

Membership in professional associations

  • Law Society of Kenya

Career history

  • Pupilage: Rachier & Company Advocates, 2000-2001
  • Management Trainee: Kenya Revenue Authority Training Institute, 2001-2002
  • Senior Legal Counsel: Kenya Revenue Authority, 2002-2007
  • Partner: Munyao, Muthama & Kashindi- 2009 to date

Work Highlights

Legal, governance, compliance, regulatory audits.

  • Team leader in conducting legal, compliance and regulatory audits which entail  It reviewed the client’s internal policies, practices and operations of the governing bodies and various departments to assess their compliance with the relevant laws including the Constitution, the establishing  and regulating statutes and subsidiary legislation. The previous and existing clients include Safaricom, Post Bank, Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), National Hospital Insurance Fund, and Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya Literature Bureau, Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Post Office Savings Bank among others.
  • Team leader in reviewing the legal and policy frameworks to strengthen integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in Kenya
  • Team leader of the corporate governance practice area and has been involved in reviewing clients’ corporate governance structures and giving advice on legal, compliance and governance requirements. He has offered tailor made presentations and training sessions to clients’ board members and senior executives on corporate governance and other applicable legal and compliance requirements.
  • Advised clients on risk assessment and implementation of risk mitigating measures relating but not limited to directors duties, anti-corruption/bribery, anti-money laundering among others.

Tax

  • Assisted a leading audit firm in challenging a tax assessment raised by KRA in excess ofKshs 600,000 million against an international NGO operating in the Kenya and the region. The case involved complex legal points relating to expatriate tax, installment tax, definition and meaning of residency and interpretation of a number of statutory provisions.
  • Acted for one of the largest Container Freight Terminals in Mombasa that had been shut down by the Commissioner of Customs Services after a huge assessment of tax. The case successfully challenged the Commissioner of Custom’s power to close the facility and addressed other complex customs legal issues.
  • Represented one of the largest private universities in successfully pursuing a waiver of tax penalties and interest resulting from an initial assessment of tax by KRA amounting to KShs. 70 million.
  • Represented a leading company operating in the horticultural sector in appealing a tax assessment of over Kshs 200 million.
  • Represented a leading Italian company headquartered in Rome Italy running a space research project in Malindi to successfully challenge enforcement action by KRA of freezing the company’s bank accounts. The case addressed developing jurisprudence of striking a proper balance between the enforcement powers of the tax man viv a vis the need to protect a tax payer from the risk of substantial hardship including total collapse due to enforcement action. The court was persuaded to set aside an earlier order for the client to furnish security of a substantial amount and granted an unconditional stay of enforcement action. The monetary exposure was over Kshs 160 million.
  • Represented a leading export trading company in challenging tax assessment in excess of Ksh 300 million and dealing with complex tax issues touching on various WTO rules including the non-discrimination principle, rules of origin, East African Common tariff classification, and an array of constitutional and administrative law issues.

Regulatory advisory and dispute resolution

  • Representing and advising an array of regulators of various sectors and public bodies on a wide range of issues and claims airing from their exercise of their regulatory and statutory mandates. Kenya Airports Authority, Communication Authority, Agriculture Food Authority, Energy Regulatory Commission, Kenya Forest Service, Engineers Board of Kenya, National Transport and Safety Authority, NGOs Coordination Board, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, National Hospital Insurance Fund to name but a few.

Energy

  • Represented a regulator in the energy sector against representative/class action public interest and consumer protection related claims made against the regulator and other players in the sector concerning several issues touching on electric power billing tariffs among other issues.  The value of some of the matters in contention is over Kshs 10 billion.
  • Representing a regulator in the energy sector against a representative/class action public interest and consumer protection related claims made against the regulator and other government agencies touching on key issues in the energy sector such as power generation, power purchase agreements, deemed energy, financing of power generation projects, Government guarantees, electricity transmission and an array of constitutional issues. The value of the matters under consideration is over Kshs 100 billion.
  • Team leader in conducting a legal and regulatory audit of a leading player in the energy sector. The audit included visiting critical their installations across the country, reviewing local and international contractual agreements, advising on Power Purchase Agreements, reviewing board and management operations, identifying and advising on legal risks.  
  • Acted for a Government entity operating in the energy sector in responding to compliance summons issued by a County Government relating to their installations within the county.
  • Acted for a company operating in the geothermal sector in defending a contractual claim of substantial amount of money relating to a multi-lateral donor- funded project for drilling and extraction of steam through the innovative well-head technology.

Public Procurement

  • Represented a leading Chinese firm which was a successful bidder in a multi-billion donor funded project for the Water and Sanitation Improvement project awarded by one of the public bodies operating in the water sector, in successfully opposing a challenge instituted by a losing bidder before the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board. The matter involved key procurement issues and jurisprudence touching on among other things, locus standi of applicants in a joint venture.
  • Representing the same Chinese firm in separate proceedings instituted by a different bidder but relating to the same award. Acted for the firm both before the Administrative Review Board and the High Court. The cases addressed notable public procurement matters including the Board’s jurisdiction in disputes emanating from donor funded projects and projects the subject to negotiated grants.
  • Represented a leading supplier and retailer of tyres and accessories before the Public Procurement and Appeals Review Board in dispute relating to a multi-million tender awarded by a public body in based in Mombasa and operating in the ports sector. The challenge succeeded before the Board but was subsequently overturned on appeal to the High Court.

Non-Governmental and Charities

  • Retained by several charitable, not for profit and religious organisations on an array of issues ranging from registration processes and documentation, regulatory compliance, tax advice, labour law matters, court representation and advice on contracting processes. Such NGOs include but not limited to Helpage, International Republican Institute, Food For the Hungry among others.

Employment and labour relations

  • Represented and advised an array of clients drawn from various sectors in a wide range of employment and labour related matters including representations in court, drafting of employee contracts, drafting and reviewing polices and manuals, advice on termination, dismissals,  redundancies and restructuring, managing employee-exists, advice on collective bargaining and negotiations, secondment, outsourcing among others.

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Josephine L.M. Righa: Hall of Fame Commercial Lawyer in 2024

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Josephine L.M. Righa is the Managing Partner of Josephine Righa Advocates.

Josephine L.M. Righa, the Managing Partner of Josephine Righa Advocates, has over 15 years of commercial and corporate law experience and was nominated as the Commercial Practitioner of the year 2023 at the Nairobi Legal Awards. She is listed in THE LAWYER AFRICA Commercial Lawyers Hall of Fame 2024 for her exemplary performance as a commercial lawyer acting for and representing top firms and businesses over the years. Previously, she was listed among the Top 100 Commercial Lawyers in Kenya in 2023.

Josephine has all round experience in commercial and corporate law gained from working as an in-house lawyer for a leading multinational, rising through the ranks from junior associate to the head of commercial and corporate law department of a leading law firm and founding her own commercial law boutique firm serving leading commercial clients and handling high value business transactions.

Josephine graduated in the year 2008 with a Bachelors of Laws Degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and commenced working as legal assistant for Coca-Cola Central East & West Africa Limited from the years 2009. In the year 2011, Ms. Righa pursued her Bar studies and now holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Law from Kenya School of Law.

She did her pupillage with the firm of Igeria and Ngugi Advocates and was promoted to Associate position upon her admission to the Bar in the year 2012. In the year 2014, she was promoted as a Senior Associate and the head of the Corporate and Commercial Practice of the firm, a position she held until July 2019. She founded Josephine Righa Advocates, a leading commercial and corporate law boutique in Kenya, where she serves as the Principal and Managing Partner

In addition she is a notary public, commissioner for oaths, a registered Patent Agent of the Kenya Intellectual Property Institute and is currently pursuing a Certified Public Secretaries (CPS) certification. She is also certified professional trainer in Legal Audits and Compliance, Corporate Governance, Private Public Partnerships and Contract Management & Administration (specifically trained on Contract Negotiation, Contract Drafting and review, Changes and Variations in Contracts, Dispute Avoidance & Resolution and Contract Administration Overview).

Josephine is keen on corporate governance issues and having been professionally trained by the Centre for Corporate Governance (CCG) Kenya and the Institute of Directors (IOD), Kenya, she now is an Associate Member of IOD-Kenya. Further, she is a certified professional mediator having been professionally trained by Mediation Training Institute (I) East Africa to mediate disputes in a variety of spheres including but not limited to commercial, workplace, community and family disputes.

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