Commercial and Conveyancing Department

KN & Partners Advocates is premier law firm in banking and property law in Kenya and it maintains a broad banking transactional, regulatory and operational practice. The Property Department constantly advises major Clients in the region on a full range of legal issues confronting the industry. The department is headed by Kelvin Njoroge. He is assisted by one associate. The members of the department have a wide range of experience advising banks and financial institutions on the structuring of financial products, secured lending and asset financing. As a value adding service, the Firm’s banking law specialists will offer training to Bank employees on the laws relating to the business and processes of banks in Kenya. The Firm’s lawyers may also on invitation give talks to various players in the Banking industry/stakeholders of the client on various aspects and challenges of banking law. KN & Partners Advocates boasts of a team of highly qualified and experienced commercial lawyers with a wealth of local and international experience and talent to provide quality legal services

Real Estate Developments

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Our lawyers in the division have extensive experience in handling sophisticated transactions for both local and international Clients involving all kinds of real estate assets including mixed use projects, hotels, apartments, office blocks among others. We regularly assist Clients, both local and international, in the negotiation and structuring of equity joint ventures, the formation of the associated company and other finer details of such transactions. Our team is involved in all aspects of property transactions from the project inception to completion. This includes planning, acquisition, financing, construction, leasing, contract negotiation and negotiating easements and access rights.

Our advocates have experience handling deals and transactions for a complete range of property developments including;
1.            Mixed-use developments
2.            Low income housing developments
3.            Office buildings/blocks
4.            Business and Industrial parks
5.            Residential developments
6.            Hotels

Turnaround Times

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Perfection of securities is crucial for mortgages and corporate finance which are key revenues streams for most of our Banking clients. Turnaround time in perfecting securities continues to be a major headache for Banks and borrowers because of the inefficacies of various public registries. We continuously work on our clients’ processes at the registries to cut down on turnaround.

Our standard turnaround time for registrations of various security instruments has been as follows:

Transfer and Charge

10 days

Transfer, Charge and Debenture

12 days

Charge

7 days

Official Search

2 days

Debenture

5 days