OUR SERVICES

Business environment is a regulated environment and compliant business cuts on costs and administrative time. At OLAO & RAI, we let our clients have peace of mind by taking off the burden of ensuring that our clients are routinely compliant with all the legal requirements and regulations in its area of operation to reduce legal risks. Our team will deal with each and every regulatory issue from local, regional and international regulations to ensure that you have your requisite license in time and any other regulatory issue.

We prepare and review agreements for our clients. We endeavour to get to know our client’s business and commercial issues and then deliver a clearly drafted document protecting the client’s interests along with legal issues which we identify as to reduce the client’s legal exposure to risk. The Agreements we draft and review include:

• Agency Agreements
• Consultancy Agreements
• Contracts of Service
• Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Distribution Agreements
• Escrow Agreements
• Franchising Agreements
• Joint Venture Agreements
• Management Agreements
• Software Contracts
• Software licence agreement and computer service and mai agreement
• Web Hosting and design contracts
• Web site terms and condition

At OLAO & RAI, we appreciate that Human Resource is part and parcel of business and arise almost on daily basis. We aim to guide our clients through the law, procedure and policy on employment and industrial relations. We are committed to solving employment issues. We render the following consultancies in this respect:

• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts
• Drafting and reviewing employment policies
• Drafting and reviewing employment manual
• Termination of employment
• Severance and terminal payments
• Pension Schemes
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Representation in Labour disputes

We advise clients in corporate transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, private and public equity. The Firm also specializes in preparing and advising on agency, distribution, franchising and all other forms of commercial agreements; mergers, acquisitions and disposals; joint ventures and private equity flotations and security issues, buy-outs, restructuring, and financing.

Our approach to dispute resolution is that court is the last option. Before a dispute reaches the court doors, we explore alternative measures with emphasis on negotiation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration. Our team assists clients in coming up with a comprehensive negotiation plan, support in mediation, conciliation and arbitration. Our team has extensive experience in dispute resolution.

The corporate world is fast changing, at Olao & Rai Advocates we undertake to keep our clients regularly updated on various corporate governance issues to keep them at par with changing times.

Our team has expertise and experience in Transitional Justice matters . We consult for individuals, corporate organisations, government institutions on International Criminal Law, Access to Justice for past wrongs, Victims participation and reparation in the justice process and on National and international cooperation.

We advise with regard to:

• activities of air carriers and airports,
• establishment of new airports and landing pads, their certification and continuing exploitation,
• sector-specific mergers and acquisitions,
• all matters related to aviation activities.

Legal Audit and Legal Risk Assessment of businesses and projects are necessary as a preventive and planning measure. This enables undertakings to identify potential, present and prospective legal problems to dispense with any future litigations, prosecutions, fines, penalties and unnecessary legal costs.

Our team comprehensively reviews all the laws and regulations relevant in the client’s business, review the entire client’s legal documentation and agreements, review all proposed legal reforms in the area and attendant implications to the client’s business and accordingly advice the client.

We offer advice on real property and tenancy. OLAO & RAI has a full-fledged department that deals exclusively with that. We help clients reduce their verbal agreements in writing by drafting water-tight contract to suit their interest(s). We appreciate the emergence of contemporary practise in the real estate industry like developmental conveyancing and help clients who would wish to own condominiums by conducting all the necessary legal routines for them. We also advise real estate developers. Our brief in this regard begins from inception of the transaction and runs all the way to the point of sale. Our diverse experience includes complex leasing and management structures for the development of estates, business parks and shopping malls. More generally, we act in property sales and purchases as well as leases of immovable property. We have also acted in several transactions involving the acquisition of agricultural land, which require experience in navigating restrictions imposed on ownership of such land.

We assist client’s protect their innovations, brands and business secrets within the law. To this end we work closely with the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) in registration of patents, trademarks and utility models. We are involved in enforcement in case of infringement of any intellectual property right including copyright.

Our team works closely with revenue authorities in Kenya and East African Community in developing and implementing creative tax solutions for complex transactions and providing a cost effective tax planning scheme for our clients.

We also assist clients and their professions in all stages of disputes with the revenue authorities and tax dispute resolution generally. We assist clients in form of:

• Tax assessment evaluation
• Application for refund
• Tax Settlement proposals
• Attending to tax tribunals
• Transactional tax advisory

We assist clients, both debtors and creditors in restructuring their financial interests and challenges. We have expertise in the law of administration and receivership.

We also advise clients in dissolution and winding up of their businesses, the procedure thereof, and the tax implications.

We are cognizant of the centrality of public law in every business environment and also individual lifestyle. In the circumstances we advise clients on the arising public law and administrative issues such as the Constitution and other public law legislations.

To this end we also seek legal redress in court in enforcing our client’s constitutional and legal rights through both constitutional petitions and review of administrative actions of public officers and institutions. We further undertake comprehensive review of and advocacy for legislative and policy proposals with a view to ensure the interests of our clients are protected within the new environment and where changes are required to advice on the same.

In order to protect group and public rights, our team is dedicated to undertake public interest litigation on Protection of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms and Environmental Rights.

International commerce is the buying and selling of goods between sovereign nations. Olao & Rai Advocates enables persons, businesses and countries  take advantage of competitive advantages in certain areas, while diminishing disadvantages in other areas.