Legal Services – Some common Practice Areas

Legal services are wide cover different aspects. These services can mainly be broken down to 3 main categories. These are: litigation, property and commercial & corporate categories. Each of these categories has practitioners/partners who are well trained to deal with the area in question. Here is more information on these categories:

Property: This category mainly deals with ownership and transactions of owning property. It focuses on making contracts and carrying out transactions dealing with development of buildings, real estate development and any other transaction dealing with construction of buildings. Such transactions include leasing, project financing of commercial and residential development and major construction contracts, especially for multi-storied buildings.

Litigation: In simple terms, this category mainly deals with relations with other people. It mainly focuses on dispute resolution from business dealings. This is done in accordance to the Commercial and Property Sections of the country’s constitution. Some of the things topics dealt with here are shareholder protection, enforcing securities and insolvency, solving contract and employment disputes, arbitration disputes and other related business disputes.

Commercial and Corporate: This category mainly deals with commercial transactions, corporate transactions and financial transactions. Anything dealing with finances and money is handled in this category. Some of the things handled here are banking and project finance securities, mining and prospecting, business establishment, capital markets work (which includes government privatization, private placements etc), taxation and regulatory advice, government and parastatal contracts and employment law.

Daly and Figgis are one of the leading advocates in Kenya that offer all these services. Their departments are structured into the above categories. These legal services are very vital in ensuring that you get justice done.

Essentials of a good law firm