Legal Business Solutions

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Overview

The Legal Business Solutions (LBS) team at PwC Kenya comprises of corporate commercial lawyers, qualified company secretaries and immigration specialists. We provide a broad range of legal and regulatory services, working closely with PwC’s tax, advisory, consulting and assurance teams to provide clients the benefit of integrated advice and practical solutions to business issues that are often interlinked with legal matters.

LBS is a part of PwC Legal, one of the world’s largest legal networks, which has over 3,500 lawyers in more than 95 countries. Through PwC Legal, LBS has access to global legal subject matter experts, which allows us to provide clients with high-quality globally relevant commercial legal and regulatory advice.

Issues you may be facing

We provide advice on a broad range of laws and regulations including:

Companies and Business Establishment
Regulatory Compliance
Entity Governance and Compliance (EGC)
Business reorganizations
Mergers and Acquisitions
Data protection and privacy

Employment
Immigration services
Insolvency support
Competition and Consumer Protection
Energy
Banking and Finance

Capital Markets
Telecommunications
Mining and Energy
Insurance
Pensions

How we can help you

Specifically, the products under legal business solutions include:

Legal and compliance risk assessments and reviews
Legal contract drafting and review
Transaction support
Business set up and establishment
Data protection and privacy
Immigration services
Entity Governance and Compliance

Legal and compliance risk assessments and reviews

We conduct assessments and reviews of your organization’s legal and compliance risk management framework (including policies, procedures, contracts and product documentation) and recommend appropriate solutions where we identify gaps in satisfying regulatory requirements and best practice standards.

Legal contract drafting and review

We have expertise and experience in drafting and/or reviewing a broad range of commercial agreements including joint venture agreements, share sale and purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, distribution agreements, public–private partnership agreements, shared services and cost agreements.

Transaction support

We offer legal due diligence services and transaction document preparation for mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions.

Business set up and establishment

We provide a range of services with respect to initial business establishment, including advice on registration of business entities, advice on work permit requirements, drafting of employment contracts.

Data protection and privacy

We offer a range of services to our clients to ensure their compliance with the Kenya Data Protection Act, the Data Protection Regulations and best practice including conducting data protection and privacy gap assessments, drafting of key data protection and privacy frameworks, registration support, providing compliance matrices and trainings.

Immigration services

We have a specialized team that offers immigration support services to organisations deploying staff across international boundaries including strategic consulting advice, planning and compliance services, as well as programme administration.

Entity Governance and Compliance

We assist clients across all sectors and industries to navigate the rapidly changing regulatory environment by delivering insights, processes and systems required to help parent and subsidiary boards thrive by performing governance regulatory assessment; governance function reviews; provision of training for directors, governance teams or key stakeholders; and ongoing company secretarial services.