Vianney Sebayiga

Vianney is an Associate at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna and a member of the Firm’s Dispute Resolution department. He advises and represents clients on a wide array of matters, including commercial disputes, employment disputes, international arbitration, and civil disputes.

Beyond his practice, Vianney is an established legal researcher who has been published in many peer-reviewed academic journals. His research interests are international commercial arbitration, climate change, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. He previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at Strathmore Law School and previously consulted for the Africa Development Bank and the Africa Legal Support Facility.

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

Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK and Kenya

Member, Law Society of Kenya.

Member, East Africa Law Society

2023: Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law

2022: Data Protection Course-Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law, Strathmore University

2021: Bachelor of Laws, LL.B, Strathmore University

Jul 2024 – Date: Associate, Anjarwalla & Khanna

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024: Trainee Lawyer, Anjarwalla & Khanna

Oct 2021 – Dec 2021: Legal Researcher, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Kenya Branch

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022: Teaching Assistant, Strathmore University Law School

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021: Legal Intern, Nyaanga & Mugisha Advocates

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021: Legal Researcher, African Legal Support Facility

• Acting for the Heineken Group, a leading Dutch brewing company, in connection with a disputed termination of distribution agreements in East Africa, before the High Court and Court of Appeal.
• Acting for Tatu City, in connection with an international arbitration at the ICC in connection with a construction dispute with a Kenyan contractor over a FIDIC Redbook, 1999 governed construction contract, with claims of over USD 5.1 million.
• Acting for a private equity firm in connection with recognition and enforcement proceedings of an LCIA international award in Kenyan courts. The dispute was in connection to a post–acquisition dispute in relation to breach of warranties, fraud, misrepresentation and quantification of loss on the basis of a consideration based on EV/ EBITDA data.
•  Representing Conservation Alliance of Kenya in connection with a public interest petition before the Environment and Land Court opposing the intended compulsory acquisition of the Kipini Wildlife and Botanical Conservancy, a critical ecologically significant area and important bird and biodiversity area, for threatening the right to a clean and healthy environment.
• Acting for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Africa Regional Office, an international non-governmental organization at the Employment & Labour Relations Court in a claim filed by 3 disgruntled employees claiming they had been unfairly suspended and terminated from their employment and were seeking orders of the court to declare the suspension and termination unlawful.
• Acting for a shareholder in connection with suits before the High Court concerning unlawful transfer of its shares in two insurance companies in Kenya and the release of escrow funds arising from share purchase agreements among the shareholders.
• Advising a leading global energy company on risks and liabilities arising from its exit from Product Sharing Contracts and Joint Operating Agreements, including potential exposure in an environmental suit alleging violations of the right to a clean and healthy environment by its former joint venture partner.
• Advising an agricultural multinational in connection with searches and seizures of premises under Kenyan law and the scope and extent of the powers of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
• Advising a global technology and software company, in connection with the debarment of its local representative and distributor in Kenya by the World Bank for fraudulent practices, including whether a debarred entity by a multilateral development bank or an international organisation is automatically debarred under the Kenyan public procurement law, and remedies for debarred entities.
• Successfully acting for a multinational corporation in negotiating an out of court settlement in connection with an employment dispute instituted by one of its former employees.