Arnold Mutisya is a senior associate in our Nairobi office and a member of the Corporate Commercial Department.

He specialises in corporate and commercial law work involving mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint venture transactions, private client work and general corporate and commercial advisory work and is regularly responsible for:

• undertaking due diligence exercises in many high profile Kenyan and international merger transactions, joint venture transactions and private equity transactions;
• drafting and negotiating of the transaction documents (e.g., share purchase agreements, business and assets transfer agreements, shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements, power purchase agreements, EPC contracts etc.) for many high profile Kenyan and international transactions;
• project management of transactions and seeing them through to completion;
• providing regulatory and structuring advice for investors seeking to set up in Kenya, particularly in respect of regulated sectors such as the telecommunications, banking, pharmaceuticals and insurance sectors and assisting such investors to set up in Kenya and to procure the requisite licences; and
• general advisory on corporate commercial matters and other legal matters.

Arnold has experience in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters and has acted in many high profile Kenyan and international merger transactions, joint venture transactions and private equity transactions as well as corporate and commercial advisory work.

He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a member of the Law Society of Kenya. Arnold is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and he is also registered as a Certified Secretary (CS) with the Institute of Certified Secretaries of Kenya (ICS).