Contract Drafting, Negotiation and Review
MUREN Advocates LLP offers legal advisory that helps our clients understand the meaning of proposed contract language to enable them make informed choices.
We assist navigate contracts for sale and purchase, license products or activities, for employment agreements, for insurance agreements and more. Muren Advocates LLP will help you review, draft and negotiate contracts and make these transactions happen smoothly and without any misunderstandings. We will handle the aspects of the contracts and help you conduct your affairs confidently. When there are contract disputes, we help our clients resolve these disputes favorably. At each stage, our specialised contract lawyers will help businesses and individuals perform transactions in a sound and beneficial way.
Litigation Management.
After drafting contracts, the second most important legal function is managing (and preventing) litigation, which is possibly the biggest waste of time and money most companies face. MUREN Advocates LLP is well poised to handle your legal concerns, be it demand letters and litigation while you concentrate on the most important aspects of your business. “Risky” litigation matters, i.e., cases where stakes are very high can paralyse an organization. For example, an excessive award by a court of law can occasion cash flow problems in an organization. We can help you ensure you that your matters are given utmost care and diligence to put your best case forward.
Our litigation lawyers have handled litigation, both criminal and civil matters in Tribunals, Magistrate Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and up to the Supreme court level and are well versed in ensuring that your case is presented in the best light within the purview of the law.
Immigration Law
We provide specialist legal advisory in the field of immigration law including visas, temporary residence in all classifications such as education (study), work, business, business permits, residence permits, determinations of citizenship status.
We have previously represented clients in matters related to the Kenyan immigration laws.
Our immigration specialists can help individuals, families, and businesses navigate those various and often complex immigration pathways. A person’s immigration status might impact and intersect with other legal matters too, such as family law, criminal law, business, and tax law.
Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property is a valuable intangible asset that should be protected to enhance your businesses’ competitive advantage in the market place.
Muren Advocates LLP’s intellectual property specialists help protect and enforce rights of the creators and owners of logos, brand names, inventions, writing, music, designs and other creative works which are creations of the human intellect and mind. Our primary roles include obtaining and registration of copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets.
Procurement Law
Public procurement law regulates the purchasing by public sector bodies and certain utility sector bodies of contracts for goods, works and services.
We assist entities and help draft, negotiate and review contracts. We have also represented suppliers and organisations in procurement appeal matters involving awards procedures, exclusions and the legal remedies available in procurement processes
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Muren Advocates LLP employs an array of ADR methods that are carefully employed. If nothing else, our specialists’ familiarity with ADR methods cause us to seriously think about available dispute resolution at an earlier stage of any disagreement. We engage our client’s participation as early and completely as possible. Handled with sufficient skill, ADR can bring an adversary into the endeavor as well, as all parties join in a non- antagonistic exploration for a reciprocally favorable result.
The most common forms of ADR are arbitration, mediation, negotiation among others although techniques can be combined to form hybrids suited to a particular dispute or legal jurisdiction.
The decision to seek arbitration is sometimes made after a conflict has arisen, but much more often the parties have a clause in their contract committing them to arbitration of disputes arising from their business together. In labor relations, arbitration agreements are usually included as the crowning top of the grievance procedures specified in the collective bargaining contract. In theory, arbitration rules are up to the disputants to decide, but in practice most adopt the procedures governed by the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the Arbitration Act 1995 and the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration Act 2013. The Arbitration Act applies to both domestic and international arbitration, governing proceedings and enforcement of the awards. Our specialised and qualified arbitrators will help you navigate the arbitration process.
Employment and Labour Law/ Industrial Relations
We provide legal advice on the legal requirements that govern the employer-employee relationship. We ensure to provide practical commercial responses to employment and labour relations concerns. This includes preparation of employments contracts and in the case of dispute during the sustenance of the contract, legal advice to resolve such disputes.
We have also successfully represented our clients in matters stemming from such disputes.
Strategic projects.
Typically, there is at least one strategic project or initiative going on inside a busy company and corporate environment. It may be a big technology implementation, it might be a cost savings initiative, preparing a succession plan or “three-year” strategic plan. Regardless of what it is, if it’s important enough it’s worth getting the legal and regulatory perspective and tracking the progress. Muren Advocates LLP helps in legal advisory and tracking the implementation of contract management tools.
