Emmah Wakoli

Emmah is an Associate with ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna (ALN Kenya), in the Private Client department. Her practice focuses mainly on family succession and estate planning, next generational transfer of wealth and corporate governance matters for High-Net-Worth clients.

Emmah is also a Trust Officer at Adili Fiduciary Services Ltd (AFS), an independent and agile corporate professional trustee providing trustee and fiduciary services to high-net-worth families in Kenya. She has experience in managing complex trust accounts and fiduciary responsibilities. Her role involves overseeing the administration of trusts, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and delivering tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of clients.

Emmah is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws from Strathmore University.

Law Society of Kenya

2024 Admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya

2023 Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law

2022 LL.B, Bachelor of Laws, Strathmore University

Jan 2025 – Date Associate, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 Trainee Lawyer, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi

Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 Legal Intern, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi

April 2021 – June 2021 Legal Intern, Office of the Attorney General, Nairobi

• Acting for clients in connection with probate matters, including drafting and updating wills covering local and cross-border assets of high-net-worth estates and advising on testamentary options, family meetings to capture client wishes and creating testamentary plans that reflect tax, family and business realities.
• Advising and acting on behalf of various individuals and companies, including incorporating companies, restructuring companies, preparing and filing annual returns, allotment and transfer of shares among other company secretarial services.
• Advising and assisting in probate and estate administration, including preparing and filing applications for probate or letters of administration, assembling estate inventories, liaising with executors or administrators, collecting and distributing estate assets etc.
• Advising family-owned businesses on succession planning, including structuring ownership transfers, drafting shareholder agreements and family constitutions, designing buy-sell arrangements and coordinating with corporate and tax advisors.
• Advising on and effecting property and asset transfers, including lifetime gifts, inter-family transfers and coordinating land/title registrations and related banking processes.
• Advising high-net-worth individuals and families on wealth structuring, philanthropic giving and establishing charitable trusts or foundations, including governance and regulatory compliance.
• Providing ongoing advisory support through periodic reviews of estate and succession structures, maintaining client relationships across generations and ensuring compliance with KYC/AML obligations.