Introduction Under Kenyan law, when terminating an employee, an employer must have both a valid reason for the termination and follow the fair disciplinary procedure set under the Employment Act. This helps prevent legal disputes for unlawful or unfair termination. A termination that appears commercially reasonable may still be declared unfair or unlawful if procedural…
Introduction Most partnership disputes do not begin when the disagreement happens. They begin much earlier, when the founders start a business based on trust, assumptions, friendship, or verbal understandings, without properly documenting them. At the beginning, this usually feels harmless as everyone is aligned and the business is small. No one expects conflict. When things…
As more and more people embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLM automation, redundancies will soon be a workplace reality. Compounded by economic downturns, mechanical automation, declining revenue, fierce competition, and stricter regulatory compliance requirements, employers are being left with no choice but to reduce their workforce. We will use the below illustration to better explain…
A company can spend years building value, only for everything to unravel when one of the partners wants to exit. Exits are not always voluntary. Therefore, it is important to have a solid mechanism that protects both minority and majority shareholders in the event of a forced exit. This is what drag-along and tag-along clauses…