Overview
Infrastructure and construction projects are capital-intensive, logistically complex, and highly vulnerable to operational friction, regulatory hurdles, and design variances. From commercial real estate developments to large-scale public-private partnerships (PPPs) in energy, transport, and civil engineering, the contractual networks linking employers, main contractors, sub-contractors, and funders are intricate.
Disputes in this sector demand specialized technical literacy and an understanding of standard international building contracts (such as FIDIC or JBC forms). Legal intervention must be swift and highly analytical, managing complex engineering evidence, delay analysis, and design liability to prevent project stagnation and runaway capital expenditures.
- Construction Claims: Formal legal demands for additional compensation, extension of time (EOT), or variations resulting from unforeseen site conditions, design errors, or supply chain disruptions.
- Land & Property Litigation: Resolving high-value, high-stakes ownership conflicts, boundary friction, title deed irregularities, and leasehold challenges before specialized environmental and land courts.
- Project Disputes: Comprehensive multi-party conflicts breaking out mid-stream among developers, financiers, and engineering firms concerning structural failures, performance bonds, or wrongful contract terminations.
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We have what it takes to act for developers, contractors, and institutional investors in complex construction, engineering, infrastructure and property disputes, including claims arising from delay, disruption, defective design, cost overruns, professional negligence, and contractual termination. Our ability to distil technically dense subject matter into clear, persuasive advocacy and to develop litigation strategies informed by commercial objectives remains highly valuable to clients in this space.
- Acting for an internationally recognised and award-winning luxury safari group with premier camps and lodges across Kenya in a high-stakes lease dispute with its landlord, a matter that puts at risk one of its flagship luxury camps valued at over USD 9 million (KES 1.2 billion).
- Acting for nine former tenants of a commercial property in a high-value trespass and unlawful eviction claim against their former head landlord and a property developer, arising from the forcible removal of the tenants to pave the way for a new apartment complex despite subsisting injunctive Orders. The tenants are pursuing compensation exceeding USD 1 million (KES 130 million) from the head landlord for the unlawful eviction and resulting losses.
- Defended a client against a fraud claim concerning a USD 2.01 million (KES 240 million) property.
- Blocked multiple suits targeting a company holding significant oil exploration acreage in the East African Rift Basin.
- Secured judgment in a USD 4.6 million (KES 550 million) land dispute.
- Acting in contested compulsory acquisition claims ranging from USD 503,000 (KES 60 million) to USD 3.3 million (KES 400 million).
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