Michelle Mukenye

Michelle Mukenye is an Associate at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna and a member of the corporate commercial department. Michelle advises on mergers and acquisitions, competition law, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, data protection, corporate and commercial law and employment law.

Michelle 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 Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law

2022 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Strathmore University

• Jan 2025 – Date Associate, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi
• Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 Trainee Lawyer, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi
• Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 Secondment to East African Breweries Plc (EABL)
• Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 Intern, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi
• Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 Legal Intern, Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Awarded by the Strathmore Law Clinic: Most outstanding member of the Entrepreneurship Unit (2020)

Corporate M&A

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Acting for a logistics company in connection with acquisition of a majority stake in another logistics company with operations in Tanzania and Zambia including conducting a due diligence on the target and drafting an offer document.
• Acting for a publishing company in connection with acquisition of shares in a company including drafting transaction documents (share purchase agreement, subscription agreement and shareholders agreement) and managing the due diligence process.

Competition

• Acting for a private equity fund in its acquisition of a leading restaurant chain including advising on required competition approvals in Kenya and COMESA and making the relevant competition filings in Kenya.

Regulatory

• Acting for a leading insurance company in Nigeria in connection with setting up an insurance company in Kenya and advising on structuring options and required regulatory appovals in the insurance sector.
• Assiting Baker & McKenzie in connection with undertaking a compliance review for one of the largest mobile phones distributor in relation to regulatory compliance requirements in distribution, labelling and packaging of mobile phones in Kenya.
• Advising a pharmaceutical company in relation to preparation and navigation of an inquiry related to logistics, providing strategic advice and support for their engagement.

Corporate Governance

• Acting for I&M Group Plc in connection with the mandatory Legal & Compliance Audit required under the Code of Corporate Governance Practices for Issuer of Securities to the Public 2015.

Employment

• Acting for Aceli Africa in connection with employment related matters.

Projects & Infrastructure

• Advising a private party in connection with a proposed financing for the completion of 35MW geothermal power plant in Kenya.
• Acting for Finnfund, Vestas Eastern Africa and KIF, shareholders of the Lake Turkana Wind Power, the largest wind farm project in Africa, in connection with the transfer of their shares into the Climate Finance Partnership, a fund managed by the BlackRock Group, including drafting and negotiating the primary transaction documents (share purchase agreements and disclosure letters for each of the sellers) and assisting with the closing of the transaction.
• Acting for the African Legal Support Facility, a provider of legal and technical assistance to African countries in the negotiation of commercial transactions, creditor litigation and other related sovereign transactions, in connection preparing the Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Level 3 Course Material.

Real Estate & Construction

• Acting for AVIC International Real Estate Kenya in connection with its development of a mixed-use state-of-the-art development comprising of one of tallest office blocks in Kenya.
• Acting for Impact North (KE), a partnership between Actis and Improvon Group, one of South Africa’s most established logistics and warehouse property specialists, in connection with the USD 110 million industrial park and Grade A warehousing developed on a 103-acre parcel of land in Northlands, Ruiru.
• Acting for Centum, a leading East African investment and real estate development company listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and the Uganda Securities Exchange in connection with the Two Rivers Mall situate on Two Rivers, its five-year, 100-acre, fully-integrated mixed-use development, the largest of its kind in Kenya, including advising on, drafting and negotiating the agreements for lease and short term commercial leases in respect of the retail spaces in the Two Rivers Mall.

Dispute Resolution

• Assisting the legal team in the representation of an Ugandan oil marketer in an ongoing case, at the East Africa Court of Justice (EACJ) at Arusha, against the Government of Uganda in connection with a decision by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to issue the company with a huge tax demand arising from custom taxes on various lubricant items manufactured by the company’s sister company in Kenya and imported by the company into Uganda, on the grounds that URA’s decision was unlawful, for infringing various provisions of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community, the Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Customs Union, the Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Common Market and the East African Community Customs Union (Rules of Origin) Rules (the EAC Rules of Origin).
• Assisting the legal team in the representation of a private party in a domestic arbitration involving a dispute on valuation of shares.