Big ticket deals earn Kenyan lawyers global recognition

Kenya’s elite law firms bagged most of the big-ticket mergers and acquisition deals (M&As) last year to maintain their stranglehold on the multi-billion-shilling corporate legal advisory services business and ward off competition from upcoming rivals, according to a newly released global ranking of lawyers.

Chambers and Partners, the London-based research company that ranks law firms globally based on the value of the deals they handled in the past year, says the select group of deep-rooted law firms beat their rivals to 2013’s most lucrative deals involving M&As, public listings, corporate restructuring and commercial dispute resolution to stay at the top.