Practice areas

Our Labour and Employment department delivers comprehensive, strategic legal counsel designed to protect your organisation and optimise workforce management. Recognised for our technical excellence and commercial pragmatism, we guide employers through the complex, ever-evolving landscape of workplace legislation and act as trusted partners to ensure human resource structures align with broader business objectives.

• Drafting employment contracts
• Developing human resource policies and handbooks
• Advising on disciplinary processes
• Employer and employee claims before the Employment and Labour Relations Court
• Compliance with the Employment Act and related statutes

Our Conveyancing and Real Estate practice area is keenly attuned to the growth of the East African real estate market. The practice is well versed in complex development projects, conveyancing, leasing and licences, joint ventures and project finance.

We advise on joint ventures, leases, preparation of licences, structuring of complex development projects and transfer of land for purchase and sale. Our team conducts comprehensive due diligence, prepares and registers all requisite instruments, and provides end-to-end advisory across residential, commercial and industrial property transactions.

Insolvency and restructuring covers the legal and financial processes that arise when an individual, company or organisation is unable to meet financial obligations as they become due. Restructuring often involves reorganising a company's finances, operations or both, to avoid insolvency or improve financial health after distress.

Our team offers practical solutions to individuals and businesses facing financial distress. We work with companies in distress and potential buyers, shareholders and directors, creditors and insolvency administrators, guiding them through administration, receivership, liquidation and turnaround strategies.

We offer seamless service on a range of matters, from advising on registrability, conducting trademark searches, registration and maintenance, through to commercialisation, protection and enforcement. In a constantly changing competitive market, our team provides cutting-edge advice on:

• General IP advisory
• Trademark registration and portfolio management
• Official and unofficial Registry searches
• Patent filing and registration
• Industrial designs and utility models
• Copyright protection and licensing
• Technology, media and telecommunications law
• Data protection and privacy compliance

Mitchelson Law LLP is dedicated to offering practical and technical expertise solutions to legal and commercial issues relating to agency, franchising and distributorship businesses. We offer legal advice on agency law, contract law, intellectual property, internet and technology, quality control, consumer protection, competition law, import and export laws, and data protection.

We work seamlessly with our litigation department, which holds an unparalleled reputation in the successful litigation of disputes arising out of franchise, agency and distributorship arrangements.

Our private client practice area provides prudent direction to individuals and families. The team provides all-round legal services in the most efficient way, integrating the other practice areas when handling personal and structural issues. Our practice is aimed at building relationships with our clients to provide them with practical and attainable legal advice and action.

• Wills and probate
• Private trusts
• Succession planning
• Estate management
• Family law, including divorce, division of matrimonial property, child custody and maintenance advice and litigation