Managing Partner

Background

Mauryne specializes in the areas of real estate and conveyancing, banking & finance, and corporate-commercial law.

She is an ardent reader having been a member of faculty at Mount Kenya University School of Law instructing various courses such as Contract Law, Company Law, Commercial Law, and International Law.

Mauryne has gained a wealth of experience in structuring transactions and contracts negotiation and drafting having acted for clients in wide-ranging sectors such as Tourism and Hospitality, Financial Services, Real Estate, and Construction.

She is appreciated for not only advising investors on the management of their corporate matters but most importantly for the commerciality of mind from structuring to closing deals that these investors make in the course of business.

Professional Qualifications

• 2014: Associate, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• 2010: Post graduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law
• 2009: Master of Laws - International Law, University of Kent UK
• 2007: Bachelor of Law with Honours, University of Kent UK

Membership in Professional Societies

• Law Society of Kenya
• East Africa Law Society
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrator

Career Summary

• 2017- Date: Partner, RSM Law LLP
• 2015-2018: Lecturer, Mount Kenya University - School of Law
• 2013-2015: Associate, Chemweno & Company Advocates
• 2011-2012: Assistant Lecturer, Mount Kenya University - School of Law
• 2011-2011: Legal Assistant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 2010-2010: Pupil, State Law Office – Attorney General Chambers

Areas of Expertise

• Corporate and Commercial
• Banking and Finance
• Real Estate
• Tax

Notable Experience

• Acting for various players in the real estate and construction industries including property developers, owners, vendors and purchasers of commercial, industrial, residential and agricultural properties. Such briefs have included due diligence, property tax and general commercial advice, structuring and negotiation of terms, drafting and review of all transactional documents.
• Acting for several commercial banks in Kenya on drafting and review of security documents such as loan agreements, charges, mortgages, guarantees, debentures and others.
• Acting in multi-million transactions for various local and multinational investors in the hospitality industry that have involved advising on setting up, mergers and acquisitions, financing, anti-trust, tax, employment, conveyancing, drafting and review of various commercial agreements and localization of international commercial agreements.
• Advising a number of high net worth private clients in the creation of structures for estate planning matters.