FinTech Legal - Kenya
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What the Team is Known For
Anjarwalla & Khanna is a full-service firm which is highly respected for its capabilities in the finance and technology sectors. It acts for FinTech start-up clients and financial institutions. It advises clients on the regulations surrounding mobile lending, digital currencies and blockchain technologies.
Strengths
Anjarwalla & Khanna brings practical insights that go beyond legal theory and align with how regulators and market actors operate on the ground.
Work Highlights
Anjarwalla & Khanna advised microfinance business CC Innovation on obtaining a digital credit provider licence.
Notable practitioners
Dominic Rebelo focuses his practice on the legal issues surrounding peer-to-peer lending. He advises a number of the country's largest financial institutions and payments processors, as well as international FinTechs entering the Kenyan market.
Dominic has a good reputation with the regulators and he is clear, concise and straight to the point.
Dominic is very commercially oriented. He is practical, knows the law and tailors his advice to the commercial context.
Dominic has an acute understanding of the regulatory environment, the players in the market and the local market. Dealing with him is always constructive.
Sonal Tejpar is at the forefront of financial law in Kenya and leads the banking, finance and insolvency practice at Anjarwalla & Khanna. Local and international banks seek her counsel on complex financial regulatory and transactional matters.
Sonal Tejpar is very commercially astute.
