Our services

Dispute Resolution

At Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates we offer spot on advice on all disputes. Our dispute resolution areas range from mediation, arbitration to litigation. Our team of lawyers have been involved in successfully defending the interests of our clients in employment disputes, commercial disputes, land disputes, fraud related disputes and corporate law disputes.

We incorporate various techniques to manage disputes including, negotiations, mediation, arbitration and litigation support. We research and advise our clients the best approach to disputes taking a multidisciplinary, integrated approach that analyses not only the financial risk but also the reputational risk, public affairs and government relations implications of each of the dispute resolution mechanisms. The aim is to achieve a dispute resolution mechanism that gives greatest value to our client, is cost effective, fast and efficient.

At Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates, we pride with our succinct and spot on dispute advisory services.

Our Services in this area include: –

  • Corporate and commercial arbitration;
  • Mediation;
  • Corporate and commercial litigation;
  • Employment litigation;
  • Constitutional and election petitions litigation; and
  • Criminal litigation
  • Succession
  • Judicial review

Business Support Services

Both small and large corporations face business related challenges such as hostile business takeovers, compliance with the relevant laws, business environment risks, business registration challenges and difficulties in raising capital. Our team of lawyers, work jointly to help clients manage the complex business challenges and offer them realistic and less risky solutions. By combining our public affairs, global risk and economic expertise, we help individual and corporate clients pursue new opportunities and minimize risks in international and local markets.

Our Business Support services include:-

  • Business Registration;
  • Risk profiling;
  • Transaction advisory, including M&A, antitrust, tax and investments laws;
  • Country-level political risk analysis, including identifying regulatory and tax issues and assessing political stability and opportunities for market openings
  • International trade dynamics and complaints
  • Public opinion research
  • Government engagement: advocating for political improvements or regulatory approval
  • Non-governmental organization stakeholder engagement: relationship and influence mapping of business, societal and political elites to build support for market entry

Political diplomacy and mediation strategies, including protecting operations and investments.

Tax Law

We are well situated to advise domestic and multinational businesses on a variety of tax matters ranging from tax transaction support to best practice process implementation and structuring. We provide client-centric tax advisory services focused on mitigating tax risk and minimizing cost.

Our senior management team members are leaders in their field, qualified in accounting, tax, law and real estate surveying.

Our tax services include:-

  • Corporate Tax Compliance & Reporting
  • International Tax Advisory
  • Partnership Tax Compliance & Advisory
  • Private Client Advisory
  • Real Estate Tax
  • Customs tax and management
  • REIT Tax Compliance & Advisory
  • Research & Development and Patent Box Tax Relief
  • Debt Restructuring Tax Advisory
  • National and County Taxes and Levies

Debt Collection and Recovery

Our firm handles debt collection matters. You can count on our legal and up-to-task expertise in debt collection and recovery. We handle debt collection from the stage of contacting debtors to resolution of the disputes (litigation) to the recovery of the debt.

Family Law

Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates have vast expertise and knowledge in diverse areas of family law, which is an area of law that deals with family matters and domestic relations including:

  • Drawing pre-nuptial
  • Divorce and Separation proceedings
  • Division of Matrimonial Property
  • Succession/Inheritance
  • Custody of Children
  • Child Support
  • Adoption
  • Guardianship

Land Law, Conveyancing and Real Estate

We specialize in real property and conveyancing transactions. We have a team of legal experts that will advise our clients on all matters relating to conveyancing and real estate. We pride ourselves for our ability to conduct proper due diligence in all conveyancing transactions. We focus on both residential and commercial real property planning, advisories and development. We are also actively involved in land disputes resolutions having represented our clients in the Environment and Land Court and other tribunals.

Public Affairs, Government Relations and Negotiations Consultancy

We acknowledge and appreciate the role played by legislative and regulatory changes in the operations of our client’s businesses. Managing and minimizing the risks that can arise out of changes in a company’s legal and regulatory framework is vital and on that note we strive to help our client’s comply with such changes. Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates combines public policy, capital markets and sector-specific expertise to offer a unique capability for clients operating at the critical intersection between business and government.

Companies often are faced with developing strategies to shape and inform the political and policy environment, as well as with engaging key legislative, regulatory and executive decision makers on matters that include tax, trade, labor and regulatory oversight.

Our specialists work inside political and regulatory capitals to map stakeholders, engage leadership and set the agenda for informed decision making. We have experience in hard ball negotiations and we work to negotiate in high stake commercial transactions to deliver value for our clients.

Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates also specializes in the laying of legal frameworks, development of legislative agenda and working on policy briefs for post conflict governments. To this end, our partners have been involved in legal briefs on the development of laws and institutional frameworks in the areas of public procurement and revenue mobilization.

Our motto is don’t get lawyers to sign the deal at the end, get us to negotiate the deal for you and seal the deal for you – we are smart, talented and focused and highly trained in negotiations skills to deliver value for our clients.

Corporate and Commercial Law

At Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates, we have a team drawn from the commercial and corporate sectors that can address complex commercial and corporate law transactions.

At our firm we offer corporate law services ranging from company registration and incidental services, insolvency law services, corporate governance, fraud investigations and prosecution as well as due diligence.

The teams of lawyers at Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates address the full spectrum of corporate and commercial law. Our commercial law services include the full spectrum of agreements, debt and capital restructuring, corporate mergers, acquisitions and arrangements, the full spectrum of intellectual property law, litigation support, due diligence and transaction advisory. Among our core strengths is providing expertise in guiding companies through the value creation lifecycle. Our targeted offerings include restructuring, insolvency, litigation support, interim management, capital market advisory, post-acquisition integration, valuation, tax advisory as well as financial management and performance improvement solutions.

Intellectual Property

We work to proactively advise our clients on intellectual property issues and where necessary to provide intellectual property right protection and litigation support.

Our services in this area include:-

  • Advisory services on intellectual property rights in Kenya and East Africa.
  • Registration of trade mark and industrial designs.

 

Anti-Money Laundering, Economic Crimes and Forensic Litigation Support

At Aguko Osman and Co. Advocates, we pride with our innovative practice in Forensic and Litigation Consulting. Our practice provides multidisciplinary, independent dispute advisory, investigative, data acquisition/analysis and forensic accounting services to the global business and individuals faced with such problems. Our team supports clients facing high stake litigation, arbitration and compliance investigations, and regulatory scrutiny.

The Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice helps clients protect enterprise value when faced with legal disputes. We do this by:

Quantifying damages and providing expert testimony in a range of dispute situations: intellectual property, professional malpractice, lost profits, valuations, breach of contract, purchase price disagreements, business interruption, environmental claims, construction claims and fraud cases

Employing forensic accounting and complex modeling expertise to unravel complex financial transactions

Independently gathering and analyzing critical information

Offering industry‐leading electronic evidence services that identify, preserve and collect relevant, structured information and analyze complex data within enterprise systems

Our services in this area include:

  • Forensic Accounting & Advisory Services
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Economic Crimes
  • Global Risk & Investigations Practice
  • Trial Services
  • Financial & Enterprise Data Analytics
  • Compliance, Monitoring & Receivership

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