Amyn Mussa

Practice Areas

Amyn Mussa is a Partner and the head of Projects & Infrastructure department at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna (ALN Kenya) and also co-heads the firm’s Real Estate & Construction department. Amyn is generally considered the leading energy and projects lawyer in the country. Amyn is the only lawyer in Kenya ranked in Band 1 in the projects and Energy category by Chambers Global 2022. He specialises in energy, projects, infrastructure, natural and renewable resources, as well as real estate and privatisation.

Under Amyn’s leadership, ALN Kenya has developed a dynamic and market-leading energy and projects practice and is regularly engaged on the most significant power, infrastructure, large scale real estate development and natural resources projects in Kenya. Amyn is involved in advising sponsors and developers on government engagement and contracts, including in relation to procurement of projects, concession agreements, PPAs, offtake agreements and Government support measures. He was involved in developing and concluding the first renewable energy power purchase agreements and letters of support in Kenya. He also advises sponsors on drafting and negotiating construction, O&M and debt financing agreements; together with ALN Kenya’s Tax team, structuring project equity financing, including all operative agreements such as share purchase agreements, shareholder agreements and share subscription agreements; structuring unique partial risk and political risk guarantee products for clients (covering a variety of risks, including non-payment, termination compensation, associated infrastructure and fuel risk) with counter parties such as MIGA, IDA, ATI, ADF and Government of Kenya. He further advices on complex real estate transactions including mixed use developments, industrial parks, manufacturing plants and logistics facilities. His clients have included Actis, Globeleq, Ormat, Frontier, DP World, Bechtel, Moderna, ARCH AIIM, A.P Moller, Finfunnd, Berkley Energy, Kenya Airways, Telkom Kenya and other global leading project sponsors in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amyn has led training seminars on PPPs, project finance, energy and infrastructure projects for international developers, financiers and government officials in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya. He has also worked with the African Legal Support Facility, an institution hosted by the African Development Bank, on the preparation and delivery of training materials (handbook and video) relating to the contractual and risk elements of infrastructure public-private partnership projects in Africa.

Amyn is currently developing a cross border projects practice as evidenced by acting for Berkeley Energy as lead counsel in connection with its proposed acquisition of seven power generation and development assets from Tozzi Renewable Energy in Madagascar. He has also advised on projects in Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, and Guinea. With over 20 years of experience, he has been described as “one of the leading lawyers in energy work in Kenya.”.

Amyn is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.), from the University of Houston School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Major-Finance) from the University of Houston.

Career

Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law

Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Houston School of Law

Bachelor of Business Administration (Major Finance), University of Houston

Professional Memberships

Law Society of Kenya

Clients

Centum Real Estate

EH Venture Capital Rwanda

Cold Solutions Kenya

Actis

African Infrastructure Investment Managers

Work Highlights

Advising Moderna, an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, in connection with setting up the first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Africa; together with the Government of Kenya.

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), a leading infrastructure fund manager, in connection with the acquisition from Mota Engil, a multinational organization with operations focused on construction and infrastructure management, of an interest in Lots 15 and 18 of the Roads Annuity Programme where AIIM invested USD 34 million through its pan-African AIIF4 Fund for a 74% stake.

Acting for Finnfund, Vestas Eastern Africa and KIF, shareholders of the Lake Turkana Wind Power, the largest wind farm project in Africa, in connection with the transfer of their shares into the Climate Finance Partnership, a fund managed by the BlackRock Group, one of the world's largest public asset managers with over USD 10 trillion in asset.

Acting for Cold Solutions Kenya in connection with the construction of a controlled storage facility in Tatu City.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Kenya

Languages Spoken

English

Education