Corporate Lawyers in Ruiru

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No. Gracen Law charges a consultation fee, which we confirm with you before your first meeting so there are no surprises.

We are a commercially focused firm advising entrepreneurs, corporates, investors and families across Ruiru. Every mandate is supervised by a senior advocate, and you are told at the outset who is responsible for your file.

Yes. Section 93A of the Companies Act, 2015 requires every Kenyan company to keep a register of beneficial owners and lodge it with the Business Registration Service through eCitizen, updating it within 14 days of any change. Failure to keep the register attracts a KES 500,000 fine plus daily default penalties, and the Registrar has warned that non-filing can lead to strike-off. It also affects bank financing and tender eligibility.

A cap table that reconciles to the statutory registers, written intellectual property assignments from every founder and contractor, up-to-date BRS filings including beneficial ownership, and employment arrangements that match how people are actually engaged. None of this is hard to fix in advance; all of it is expensive to fix under time pressure with a valuation already on the table.

They do different jobs. The articles are a public document governing the company's constitution; a shareholders' agreement is private and deals with what the articles cannot — reserved matters, drag and tag rights, what happens when a founder leaves, and how a deadlock is broken. The agreement matters most in the situation nobody plans for at incorporation.