Karim S Anjarwalla

Practice Areas

Karim Anjarwalla is a Senior Partner at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna, which is generally considered the leading corporate law firm in Kenya and is the largest full-service corporate law firm in East Africa. Karim is considered one of the country’s leading corporate M&A practitioners and is also recognised for his Africa-wide cross-border work. He has a wide array of experience advising domestic, regional and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments and capital markets transactions.

Karim is consistently involved in the most prominent M&A transactions in the region and acts on major cross-border deals, including advising Actis as lead counsel for Actis and AutoXpress International, the shareholders in AutoXpress, in connection with the bidding process and ultimate sale of Actis’s stake in the Company to AfricInvest and advising Sanlam in connection with the creation of a pan-African joint venture between the Sanlam Group and Allianz Group.

Under Karim’s leadership, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna has earned its reputation as the pre-eminent corporate law firm and the largest full-service corporate law firm in East Africa. He played a pivotal role in the establishment and growth of ALN, an alliance of premier corporate law firms now in 14 key African jurisdictions and the UAE. ALN operates on a unique model, combining global expertise with nuanced local knowledge, bringing together Africa’s leading firm to create an African-made world class offering. Karim's leadership extends beyond the boardroom, as he actively engages with clients, fostering trusted partnerships by seamlessly integrating legal expertise and commercial awareness as an extension of their businesses.

Karim is regularly an invited expert at various international legal and business forums. He was named Partner of the Year (Mid-Large Sized Practice) at the Africa Legal Awards, 2022 and named Kenya Lawyer of the Year at the 2022 Chambers Africa Awards. He is recognised as a “a formidable figure in the Kenyan market.” by Chambers Global 2024, ‘Leading Lawyer’ by IFLR1000 in 2023 and in “Hall of Fame” by Legal 500 in 2024. Under Karim’s leadership, ALN Kenya has won the African Law Firm of the Year Award five times since the launch of the awards in 2013.

Professional Memberships

East African Law Society

Law Society of England and Wales

Law Society of Kenya

African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) Legal & Regulatory Committee

Advisory board of the Brenthurst Foundation