Ribin N. Ondwari

Partner and Head of Real Estate, Banking and Financial Services

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Client centric is the term that immediately comes to mind when describing Ribin. He embraces every transaction and makes the client’s problem his own with the view of enabling them to efficiently achieve their strategic objective. Ribin does not assess success simply based on the size of the client portfolio but on how well we enable the clients to, achieve their strategic objectives, keep ahead of the market trends and together expand and unlock opportunities in the market for mutual growth while making a meaningful contribution to the society.

Ribin is regarded as one of Kenya’s fastest rising lawyers in the legal streets but here we regard him as our go to expert for producing perfectly formed answers that a normal person could only unearth with an excavator and a few drinks. Declared Young Lawyer of the year 2017 by the Kenya Law Society, Nairobi Branch, he handles this accolade with his customary modesty but will admit, if pressed, that he has run some of the most complex financial restructurings that ever touched these grounds.

Multifaceted logic is Ribin’s thing, hence he is adept at banking & financial services law, real estate, capital markets transactions, insolvency & corporate restructuring and energy law. The Head of our Real Estate, Banking and Financial Services Department leads a high performing team and is fluent at managing multiple projects methodically and simultaneously with excellent results. He cycles, runs and scores goals as fast as he thinks on his feet. Humble to a fault, Ribin is a genius at growing relationships internally with colleagues and clients as well as externally with regulators and other sector players.

Always enthusiastic about convoluted tasks, whether it’s the purchase and sell of a water dam, acquisition of land from a business involving trusts in Israel, sell of a conservancy including a resort in the Mara, navigating the labyrinth of community land, or the enforcement of a Chinese judgment in Mauritius, Ribin is the lawyer for all times. More importantly, in defiance of all of our predictions, he still hasn’t lost his iPhone since it was handed to him by the firm. A great lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but one who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape (Ralph Waldo Emerson). If Waldo was right, and we hold that indeed he was, then Ribin is certainly a great lawyer.

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