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Esther is the Firm’s Managing Partner and Head of the Coporate & Commercial Department in Nairobi. She leads a multidisciplinary team across a broad range of practice areas, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project finance, project development, banking and finance, real estate, regulatory compliance, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance advisory. With extensive experience advising on complex and high-value transactions, Esther is known for providing strategic, commercially focused counsel to local and international clients across diverse sectors.

In addition to her transactional and advisory practice, Esther serves on several boards as Company Secretary and is an accredited Governance Auditor and Notary Public. Her expertise and leadership have earned consistent recognition from leading international legal directories. She is ranked by IFLR1000 as a “Highly Regarded” practitioner in Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking & Finance, and is recognised by Chambers Global as a leading lawyer in Kenya for Banking & Finance and Real Estate, reflecting both the breadth of her experience and the strength of her client relationships.

Selected Experience:

• Advising Kenya Railways Corporation on the legal structuring as well as the legal and regulatory framework governing railways and metropolitan railways operation in Kenya aimed at assisting KRC in the design of the Mass Rapid Transport System for the Nairobi Metropolitan Area.
• Advisor to the National Oil Corporation of Kenya, Kenya’s national oil corporation, in the corporate restructuring into a holding company and creation of its three subsidiaries covering the upstream, midstream and downstream business sectors.
• Advised the Development Bank of Rwanda in facilitating the issuance of a Frw150 billion sustainability-linked bond which involved comprehensive legal support including identifying regulatory requirements, consolidating transaction-related information, reviewing documents, and drafting key legal instruments.
• Advising the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia as part of the Consortium with respect to the Proposed privatization of eight (8) sugar companies including guiding the Government of Ethiopia on the regulatory framework governing the sugar industry in Ethiopia and advising on appropriate modalities of privatization.
• Advising Tatu City Ltd on the proposal for the rea-alignment, relocation and/or reclassification of public roads traversing Tatu City and contributing in the legal justification section of the application to KeNHA, KeRRA, the County Government of Kiambu and the National Director of Physical Planning.
• Advising Amethis and AfricInvest in its intended acquisition of the majority stakes of a Mauritian Holding Company (Netis Holding) operating in the telecommunication industry.
• Advising Zenith Bank PLC with respect to its acquisition of 100% equity stake in Paramount Bank Limited, a tier 3 commercial bank in Kenya.
• Advising KEDA (Kenya) Ceramics Company Limited in its acquisition of both movable and immovable assets of a local company in Kenya.