Peter Maina
Managing Partner
Peter Maina
Managing Partner
Practice Areas
- Corporate & Commercial Law
- Corporate Governance
- Capital Markets
- Regulatory Compliance & Fintech
- Real Estate and Land
- Private Wealth, Trusts & Estate Planning
- Banking and Finance
- Employment and Labour
- Dispute Resolution
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LinkedIn ProfileBiography
Peter Maina is the Managing Partner of Peter Maina & Company Advocates and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
His practice covers the full breadth of the firm’s work. He structures and closes corporate and commercial transactions, advises lenders and borrowers on banking, finance and the security that stands behind it, and conducts conveyancing and real estate matters from due diligence through registration, for clients in Kenya and abroad.
He acts in employment and labour matters for employers and employees, litigates commercial, land and constitutional disputes before the superior courts and tribunals, and guides families and their businesses through trusts, succession and estate planning.
He advises on intellectual property in the commercial context where it most often arises, licensing, franchising and brand protection within transactions.
On the regulatory side he advises boards on corporate governance and takes clients through licensing and compliance before the Capital Markets Authority and the Central Bank of Kenya, from fund managers and investment platforms to virtual asset businesses.
A systematic and meticulous lawyer, he couples close attention to the detail of a document with a broader view of the whole matter, which is what makes him both effective and efficient on every brief the firm takes on.
Recent Insights by Peter
Redundancy in Kenya: How to Do It Lawfully, and What EveryDeclared Employee Is Owed
In brief Redundancy is where employment law meets arithmetic. A role is no longer needed, the business must shrink or reorganise, and the law does not stand in the way of either, because no statute obliges a Kenyan employer to keep paying for work that no longer exists. What the law does instead is prescribe […]
Compensation for Unfair Dismissal in Kenya: How Much Would You Actually Get?
In brief Of all the questions an employment lawyer in Nairobi is asked, the commonest arrives within days of a dismissal and is admirably direct: how much would I actually get? The honest answer is more useful than the folklore, which has settled on the idea that an unfair dismissal is worth twelve months’ salary […]
The Employment Contract in Kenya: What the Law Requires, What It Implies, and What a Well-Drafted One Adds
In brief The employment contract is the most consequential commercial document most Kenyan businesses sign, and the one they spend the least on. A supplier agreement worth two hundred thousand shillings gets a lawyer; the hire who will handle the company’s money, customers and secrets for years gets a template somebody found online. This guide […]