Sylvia Mukuna is a senior associate in our Nairobi office and a member of the Corporate Commercial department.

She specializes in corporate and commercial legal 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 legal due diligence exercises in many high profile Kenyan and international merger transactions and private equity transactions;
• drafting and negotiating transaction documents (e.g., share purchase agreements, subscription agreements, business and asset transfer agreements, shareholders’ agreements 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 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.

She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a member of the Law Society of Kenya. She is also an affiliate member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Sylvia holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of Nairobi and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law.