Kifaru & Moyo

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Kifaru & Moyo is a Nairobi firm advising on infrastructure, dispute resolution and corporate transactions across East Africa. The firm's infrastructure practice

Head officeNairobi, Kenya
Offices1 · Nairobi
Founded2009
Lawyers22
LanguagesEnglish and Swahili

About the firm

Kifaru & Moyo is a Nairobi firm advising on infrastructure, dispute resolution and corporate transactions across East Africa. The firm's infrastructure practice reflects Kenya's position as a regional hub for PPP, power and transport projects serving the EAC market; its dispute resolution practice — with members admitted to argue before the East African Court of Justice as well as the Kenyan High Court and Court of Appeal — handles complex commercial and investor-state disputes. Founded in 2009, Kifaru & Moyo has advised on some of the most significant infrastructure projects in East Africa, acting for project sponsors, lenders and government counterparties. The firm also advises on corporate transactions — M&A, joint ventures and private equity investments — in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Practice areas

Sectors

Key people

James Kifaru
Founding Partner · Infrastructure & Projects

Founding partner. Leads the infrastructure and projects practice. Advises project sponsors, lenders and government counterparties on PPP structures, project finance documentation and construction contracts. Admitted before the East African Court of Justice.

Amara Moyo
Founding Partner · Disputes

Founding partner. Leads the disputes practice. NCIA-accredited arbitrator and advocate with experience in commercial arbitration, investor-state disputes and High Court commercial litigation across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Amani Juma
Partner · Infrastructure & PPP

Amani leads the firm's infrastructure practice, advising governments and sponsors on public-private partnerships, energy and transport projects across East Africa.

Wanjiru Kamau
Senior Associate · Dispute Resolution

Wanjiru handles commercial litigation and international arbitration, including disputes before the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration.

Offices

NairobiHead office
7th Floor
UAP Old Mutual Tower
Upper Hill
Nairobi
Kenya
+254 20 555 0700

Representative work

Matters are described generically and anonymised where confidentiality applies.

Advised the project sponsor on the financing and construction contract for a 150MW wind energy project in northern Kenya.

Represented a pan-African private equity fund on its acquisition of a majority stake in a Kenyan telecoms infrastructure company.

Acted for a development finance institution in NCIA arbitration arising from a disputed infrastructure concession.

Advised a regional bank on the regulatory aspects of its expansion into the Tanzanian and Ugandan markets.

Awards & recognition

2025

Recommended for Infrastructure & Projects, East Africa by independent directory research.

2024

Recognised for Dispute Resolution in regional commentary.

2023

Noted for cross-border M&A, East Africa.

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