Category: Companies, Corporate Law
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How to get a Transport Network Operator (TNO) Licence in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo and Joy Kawira When was the last time you took an Uber ride? Perhaps you were on a tight schedule and needed to work while on the move, or maybe public transportation wasn’t an option for you at that time. Regardless of the situation, you’ve likely used…
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How to join a Regulatory Sandbox in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo and Joy Kawira As a founder, sometimes you have a product in development that you’d like to share with the public in a test phase. This is easy for certain industries but what happens if you are in a heavily regulated industry like communications, savings/investments or lending?…
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How to get a Crowdfunding Platform Operator (CPO) Licence in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo and Joy Kawira What if raising capital was as easy as ABC? What if investing was as easy as XYZ? Well, what if it just meant that you sign up on a website and match with people willing to invest some money in your business? Well, this is…
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How to Start a Venture Capital Firm in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo There are different ways of changing the world, you can have a groundbreaking idea or you can fund the people that do and help them execute it. The former is by being a founder and the latter is by being a venture capitalist. Let’s break it down…
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3 Ways to Set Up a Foreign Company in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo Are you a business person who loves to grow and scale beyond your borders? Perhaps you have settled on East Africa as your next market and realized that Kenya is the gateway to the close to 500 million strong East African market. If this is you, then…
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How to get a Money Remittance Provider (MRP) Licence in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo The ability to send and receive money is the cornerstone of modern society. We send money across the world to the people we love, and when we get opportunities to go abroad, we send money back home to support our loved ones and to invest in projects.…
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When the Founder gets Fired: 3 Reasons Why
By Meshack Masibo Imagine working day and night to build your Company only for it to be taken away from you. You don’t have to imagine it any longer because that is the story of Sam Altman. Sam Altman was recently fired from a company he built, OpenAI. It is reported that the…
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How to Register a Foreign Company in Kenya
By Meshack Masibo On 22nd August 2023, Kenya officially removed the 30% local shareholding rule that required foreign companies offering ICT services in Kenya to cede 30% of their local shareholding to Kenyans. The move caused ripples in both local and international circles as companies registered in Kenya that had…
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What Founders and Investors Need to Know About Company Membership Rights
By Afra Adade Whether you are considering starting your own company, investing in an existing one, or already owning shares in a company, you may have some concerns about your membership rights. In this post, I have addressed some of these concerns. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆? You…
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