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• Acting for Hemingways Holdings, a Mauritius holding company with subsidiaries that operate various luxury hotels and lodges and camps, in connection with creating a Long Tern Incentive Plan as a mechanism for attracting, retaining, and motivating senior executives of the group.
  
• Acting for M-Kopa Holdings and its Kenyan subsidiary M-Kopa Kenya, a fintech platform that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers, in connection with representing and defending a petition instituted at the Employment & Labour Relations Court by a former employee of M-Kopa Kenya, and is allegedly on behalf of the entire class of minority holders of employee share options.
  
• Acting for DP World, an Emirati multinational logistics company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, specialised in cargo logistics, port terminal operations, maritime services, and free trade zones, in connection with a highly contentious employment petition filed in the Employment and Labour Relations Court.
  

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• Representing Strathmore University in a copyright infringement claim filed by a former employee seeking general and punitive damages, as well as special damages, amounting to KES241.2m
  
• Representing Metrofile Holdings PTY in a claim filed by a former employee of Metrofile Kenya, seeking compensation of approximately USD1.7m and declarations that the Respondents violated his rights to fair labour practices, fair trial, and freedom from discrimination.
  
• Representing Cloudfactory Kenya Limited in an Employment and Labour Relations petition filed by two former employees, who are seeking relief for alleged violations of their constitutional rights, including fair labour practices, fair administrative action, and equality and freedom from discrimination.
  

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• Acting as Kenyan counsel to Open Society Foundation in respect of Kenyan employees who were impacted by the Foundation’s global restructuring.
  
• Representing Nestle Kenya Ltd following some unionisable employees filing a claim against it, alleging that the senior members of the Union had entered into a Settlement Agreement to settle a claim in respect of wrongful redundancy and execution of an addendum in respect of a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  
• Represented Dell Emerging Markets (EMEA) Ltd in an arbitration in which the issue in contention was allegations of unfair termination of employment and the legal implications of, inter alia, an employer giving an employee a settlement agreement to avoid termination on grounds of poor performance.
  

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• Represented the Kenya Airports Authority successfully in proceedings arising from a nationwide strike of workers in the aviation industry, which accounts for about 6% of the GDP of Kenya and led to the grounding of flights in the country.
  
• Advising top blue-chip companies in Kenya, such as Safaricom PLC, Robert Bosch East Africa Ltd, Coca Cola Beverages East Africa, Unilever Kenya Ltd, and National Bank of Kenya, among others, on an array of contentious and non-contentious/advisory employment matters, including the drafting of contracts and HR policies, advising on disciplinary processes, and implementation of changes to the law such as insurance health tax deductions from employee salaries, among other matters.
  

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• Advised Base Titanium Ltd on the redundancy exercise of a total of 700 unionised and non-unionised employees.
  
• Advised Microsoft on preparing a simplified employment template intended for use across all countries where it employs staff.
  
• Acting for Watu Credit Ltd in an employment claim for unfair termination.
  

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• Represented Rubis Energy (formerly known as KENOL KOBIL PLC) in a high-stake, complex employment claim filed by its former CEO seeking a myriad of declaratory reliefs plus damages for unfair termination and unlawful discrimination.
  
• Advised Total Touch Cargo Kenya Ltd on conducting an evaluation exercise on its HR departments.
  

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• Advising SAP East Africa on a complex wrongful termination dispute.
  
• Advising AGRA on the review of its human resources manual and accompanying polices.
  
• Advised EDF Development South Africa on contractual matters relating to its employees.
  

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• Advising Prudential Services Africa Limited on preparing and reviewing various employment and HR policies for PASL over a period of several months, including their harassment policy; grievance handling procedure; investigation procedure; and disciplinary policy, among others.
  
• Advising Amazon on a diverse range of employment matters, such as a review of HR policies to ensure compliance with Kenyan law, advice on transfer of employees in Kenya, advice on employee disability benefits in Kenya, advice on social security benefits in Kenya, and advice on regulation of internship arrangements in Kenya etc.
  
• Advising Beiersdorf East Africa on a broad range of employment matters on an ongoing basis, including preparing and reviewing various employment and HR policies, advising on ongoing restructuring of its workforce in Kenya and conducting sensitive workplace investigations and disciplinary proceedings in accordance with Kenyan law requirements.
  

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• Acting for the pension scheme in defending a judgment by the Retirement Benefits Appeals Tribunal for unpaid retirement dues of approximately KES13.4bn by former employees of Telkom Kenya Ltd.
  
• Acted for Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ltd and the Trustees of the Standard Chartered Staff Retirement Pension Scheme in proceedings that commenced before the Chief Executive Officer of the Retirement Benefits Authority, who found that the benefits of the former employees of the Bank had been properly computed and dismissed the complaint.
  
• Representing a corporation in a claim brought by its former employees challenging their termination of employment on the basis of forfeiture arising from absconding duty to carry out industrial action to enforce an award by the then Industrial Court where the corporation was ordered to increase their salaries by 25%.