Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Muthaiga (Limuru Rd, near Muthaiga Mini Market)
Our client, a diversified Kenyan group spanning consumer, logistics, and digital services, is looking for a General Counsel to architect its legal backbone. This isn’t a maintenance role; it’s a build-and-lead mission. You’ll translate business strategy into airtight legal frameworks, shape policy that scales, and set the tone for governance across fast-moving subsidiaries.
As first chair on complex negotiations and regulatory matters, you’ll blend technical depth with commercial instinct. One day it’s a cross-border distribution agreement, the next a data privacy dialogue with ODPC or an IP enforcement strategy. You’ll craft pragmatic playbooks that teams actually use, not legal wallpaper.
Your remit includes litigation oversight, board and compliance advisory, and the design of systems that make prevention second nature. The board values clarity, brevity, and courage, counsel who can say “yes, if…” instead of just “no.”
For a lawyer ready to shape impact at the group level, this is a stage with reach and visibility. The path runs General Counsel → Group GC/Chief Legal Officer → Board Advisor, with leadership that measures success by sound judgment, not paperwork volume.
-Lead legal strategy, budgeting, team build-out, and outside counsel panel.
KES 400,000–700,000 + annual performance bonus (up to 20%) + LTIP subject to board approval. Figures are estimates shared by our clients and vary with your experience, interview performance, certifications, and company pay bands.
This is the ideal hierarchy inside the client’s company and thus the expected growth cycle for this position.