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CDH is a full-service law firm - with an extensive reach across Africa - consisting of more than 250 lawyers and a track record spanning over 170 years. The firm provides experienced legal support and an authentic knowledge-based and cost-effective legal service for clients looking to do business in key markets across Africa. Our Africa practice brings together the resources and expertise of leading business law firms across the continent that have direct experience acting for governments, state agencies and multinational organisations. This combined experience across the continent produces an extensive African capability. We also partner with other professional disciplines such as audit, business consulting or corporate finance disciplines to provide a seamless and integrated solution for projects that have a multi-disciplinary dimension.
CDH offers clients a full-service fintech law solution across Kenya, South Africa and cross-border.Our areas of expertise include advising bank and non-bank fintech companies on the Kenya and South African regulatory implications of the products and services they develop. Highlights of our market-leading counsel include our work advising Tala, Shara, Oye, Boost on their applications to the Central Bank of Kenya for their digital lending licences. Our firm is also closely involved in bringing new fintech products to market.Our fintech experts are able to draw upon the formidable firmwide capability of one of the largest business law firms in South Africa, with over 250 lawyers and a track-record spanning over 170 years.
Unique sector-specialist FinTech strength across all practices & all geographies
Kenya’s fintech landscape represents one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing areas in Africa. Our expertise in practice areas including corporate & commercial, finance & banking, real estate, competition, tax & exchange control, M&A, private equity, employment and TMT enables our team to provide market-leading advice on the full range of legal matters most relevant to the fintech industry.We advise clients on financial regulatory aspects; corporate law and governance; the legal aspects of commercialising technology and intellectual property; customer-facing contracts and technology procurement contracts; data protection; and financing (borrower-side).Our ability to provide market-leading legal, strategic and technical counsel in combination with the skills of an experienced, sector-specialist team of thought leaders brings an impressive body of innovative and repeat work for the firm, which is unique among legal services providers in Kenya.
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- SandtonJohannesburg Regional Office, 1 Protea Place, Sandown, Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, 2196
- Web: www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com
- Tel: +27 11 562 1000
- Fax: +27 11 562 1111
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- NairobiMerchant Square, 3rd Floor, Block D, Riverside Drive , Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaView ranked office
- Cape Town11 Buitengracht Street, PO Box 695, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 8000View ranked office
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“To set-off or not to set-off?”
Set-off allows the termination of obligations without an exchange of performance. Where parties are indebted to one another, set-off operates automatically under the common law when the requirements for set-off are satisfied. Under sections 90 and 124 of the National Credit Act (NCA), the process is…
Ruling on unitised incentive scheme does not provide much clarity
An employee incentive scheme that is commonly used works as follows: A company forms a trust. The company funds the trust, and the trust then uses the funds to buy shares in the company. The employees of the company are given units in the trust, usually free of charge. The units entitle the employees…
“To set-off or not to set-off?”
Set-off allows the termination of obligations without an exchange of performance. Where parties are indebted to one another, set-off operates automatically under the common law when the requirements for set-off are satisfied. Under sections 90 and 124 of the National Credit Act (NCA), the process is…
Ruling on unitised incentive scheme does not provide much clarity
An employee incentive scheme that is commonly used works as follows: A company forms a trust. The company funds the trust, and the trust then uses the funds to buy shares in the company. The employees of the company are given units in the trust, usually free of charge. The units entitle the employees…