Most people who buy property in Kenya from abroad focus on finding the right plot, verifying the title deed, and completing the transaction. That part is important. But it is only half the job. The other half, the half that most buyers skip, is deciding how the property should be owned. Who holds the title. […]
Lending into Kenya is no longer the exotic transaction it once was. Development finance institutions, international commercial banks, family offices, private credit funds, and corporate parent companies routinely extend credit to Kenyan borrowers across mining, energy, manufacturing, real estate, and trade finance. The deal itself is increasingly familiar. What is often misunderstood is what happens
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Kenya reopened to new Power Purchase Agreements in November 2025 after a moratorium of nearly three years. In January 2026, EPRA revoked its allowed-return guidelines and the geothermal benchmark tariff, signalling a broader reset of how project economics will be priced going forward. Foreign sponsors evaluating Kenyan generation, transmission, or distribution projects are entering a
On 28 May 2026, the High Court at Milimani Commercial Courts restrained Absa Bank Kenya PLC from auctioning two charged commercial properties in Kiambu County. The borrower had missed a monthly installment on a KES 80 million facility early in 2025. The bank responded by recalling the entire outstanding balance and moving to sell. By
Based on the WAREN Law Advocates LLP webinar “Wealth Protection Plan for Kenyans Abroad,” held on June 9, 2026, featuring Janice Wachuka, Cecilia Njeri, and Ephraim Ndegwa. The Family Division registry in Nairobi currently holds more than 13,000 active succession cases. Some estate disputes have been in the Kenyan courts for over 40 years, long
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Overview It is imperative for Court to consider whether Commercial arrangements exist before concluding that a sale could be compensated by damages. The value of such agreements should also be preserved before the main issues are heard and determined by Court Editor’s Note WAREN Law Advocates LLP acted for the Applicant in Kinyua v Absa.
In Kenya’s property market, the deals that close cleanly are the ones that move in the right order. For buyers and developers operating in Nairobi and Kiambu, the question is how to move through the legal process without losing weeks to delays you could have prevented, or signing into risks you should have caught. The
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Why the smallest line item in the deal budget is, in the end, almost always the most expensive one. By the time the cost of cheap legal structuring becomes visible, the leverage to address it has usually already moved. A foreign investor enters Kenya for a mining, energy, or manufacturing project. The deal closes. The
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If you are a Kenyan living abroad and you have been thinking about investing back home for two, five, or ten years and still have not moved, this article is for you. I write it because I sit on the other side of these conversations every week. The first email is rarely about land or
What U.S., UK, and EU Creditors Should Know Before Taking Action If you are reading this, a Kenyan counterparty owes your company money. Probably for some time. You have likely already sent reminders, escalated through your collections team, and possibly issued a formal demand from your home jurisdiction. None of it has worked. The instinct,
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