GSLAW LLP

COMPANY, COMMERCIAL AND TAX LAW

GSLaw LLP provides legal services to clients across many different industries. 

We also provide comprehensive legal risk management audit services to both local and international companies. Strategic management of legal risks is done to protect the value and assets of companies. 
i. We conduct legal audits and assess the legal risks stemming from companies' contracts, legal disputes, assets, intellectual property, new laws and regulations.
ii. We identify and provide solutions that relate to governance structures, taxation, liability, disputes and litigation, tangible assets, human capital, intellectual property and compliance with legal and regulatory instruments. 

A key aspect of this is contracts: negotiating favourable contract terms, drafting complex template contracts with protective clauses, identifying breaches of contracts, compliance failures, risk of penalties and reputational damage, mitigating loss and monitoring contract performance.

As well as litigation, we offer commercial arbitration and mediation in commercial disputes with a view to averting unnecessary litigation and minimising costs.

We also offer legal drafting services drafting complex commercial contracts and agreements.

GSLaw LLP's knowledge of internal and external environments of institutions; sensitivity to public policy, government and political agendas; awareness of the impact of economic, political, regulatory and legal changes on industry and institutions; and awareness of emerging challenges and opportunities within the corporate and business world give us an edge in the business world.

PROPERTY LAW AND CONVEYANCING 

GSLaw LLP lawyers have extensive experience and insight into all aspects of land law and property transactions in Kenya. We are adept at negotiating, documenting and completing all aspects of property transactions. 

Some of our clients in the real estate market include real estate developers, owners and tenants of commercial and residential buildings.

FAMILY, TRUSTS AND INHERITANCE LAW

At GSLaw LLP, we negotiate, mediate, litigate and perform agency services in relation to divorce law on behalf of clients, including with respect to matters such as child support, distribution of property, allocation of expenses and adult guardianship.

We also apply our one-stop legal, accounting and tax expertise to inheritance matters involving family and business successions, preparing and executing wills that deftly maximize legal, financial and accounting outcomes for our clients and their heirs and establishing trusts to protect family wealth.  

We also specialize in the division of estates, optimizing tax, interest and secondary inheritance outcomes as a whole

MINING LAW

At GSLaw LLP we provide a wide spectrum of legal services in relation to mining and natural resources laws and commercial exploitation thereof.

We are conversant with matters relating to local and regional mining legislation, including but not limited to compliance, mining titles, applications and acquisitions of rights, review applications, appeals, due diligences and investigations.

Our services include:

a. Environmental, social and governance advisory and compliance;
b. Advising on property rights and access to land as well as physical planning, public participation and stakeholders’ engagement issues;
c. Handling and advising on applications for prospecting rights, reconnaissance licences, exclusive prospecting licences, special prospecting licences, mining leases, special mining leases, mineral dealers’ licences and export permits;
d. Liaising with Ministries of Land, Petroleum and Mining, Forestry and Environment and Water and Sanitation as well as other relevant departments or agencies like Kenya Mineral Rights Board, KWS, NEMA, the National Treasury, KRA, KenInvest, National Land Commission (NLC) and County Governments for purposes of procuring the relevant approvals and authorisations;
e. Handling and advising on issues connected to access to development for water resources for mining operations;
f. Handling and preparation or review of concessions or easements agreements and other arrangements related to access to land and relevant infrastructure development;
g. Corporate and commercial transactions- including negotiating specific agreements, sales and purchases agreements, operating and maintenance agreements;
h. Assisting in negotiation of offtakes, supply side contracts or day-to-day commercial agreement support;
i. Finance including debt financing, private equity, corporate finance and commodity finance;
j. Taxation and other statutory claims;
k. Dispute resolution including litigation, mediation and arbitration;
l. Legal and regulatory compliance including occupational health and safety, public procurements, competition laws as well as labour, employment and immigration law advisory; and
m. Handling public participation and stake holders’ engagements issues including drafting and review of community development agreements.