
Your legal partner for doing business in Kenya.
Offering legal and business solutions for investors, businesses and families, combining rigorous legal practice with a decade inside the machinery of trade and investment facilitation across Africa
Counsel from both sides
of the counter.
About the firmMost law firms can tell you what the law says. We can also tell you how the process actually runs, because our lead counsel has advised on and helped design the very systems through which investors interact with government, in Kenya, across the East African Community, and in markets in West and Southern Africa.
That shapes how we practise: pragmatic advice, plain language, realistic timelines, and a process map for every engagement, so clients always know what happens next.
- Years in facilitation
- 10+
- African markets
- 7
- Practice areas
- 14
- Response time
- <1 day
Tailored legal solutions
Focused, senior-led services across fourteen practice areas, for investors, institutions and individuals.
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Immigration & Work Permits
The right permit class for your circumstances, filed with complete documentation.
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Market Entry & Investment Facilitation
Entity registration, tax, licences, immigration and banking, coordinated as one process.
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Corporate & Commercial Law
Incorporations, shareholder and joint-venture agreements, and commercial contracts.
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Civil & Commercial Litigation
Contract, debt recovery and employment disputes, with mediation and arbitration.
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Conveyancing & Real Estate
Sales, leases, charges and transfers, with thorough due diligence on title.
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Trade & Regulatory Advisory
Import and export requirements, licensing pathways, standards and compliance.
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Senior-led on
every matter
Resident advocates supported by a dedicated office manager, IT and secretarial staff, and a vetted network of correspondent advocates in all major towns in Kenya.

Agnes Nduku John
Lead Counsel
Nationwide reach
Correspondent advocates in Mombasa, Eldoret, Kakamega, Machakos and Kitui.
Fee estimates negotiated in advance, wherever your matter sits.
Selected assignments
Representative engagements undertaken by the firm's advocates, from legislative drafting to complex multi-track litigation.
Read our insights- 01
Drafting of the Kenya Burial Bill, 2014.
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Drafting of the Machakos County E-Waste Management Bill.
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Corporate structuring, conveyancing and leases for property developments across the country.
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Perfection of security documents, including debentures, charges and mortgages, for banks and financiers.
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Representation of banks, insurers, co-operative societies and local authorities in complex multi-track litigation and in domestic and international arbitration.
Arrange your consultation.
In person at Standard Building, Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, or by video call. We respond within one business day.
- Telephone: 0733 936 027Telephone: +254 752 153 118
- E-mail: admin@panamadvocates.co.ke
- Office: Uganda House, Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
- Postal address: P.O. Box 30374-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 17:00 EAT