Radhika Arora
Senior Associate | Nairobi
Contact
T: +254 20 503 1786
Overview
Radhika is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice group. She focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular experience in insolvency and restructuring, construction, banking and financial services, and shareholder disputes.
She advises both local and international clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, capital markets, and infrastructure. Her recent work includes representing commercial banks, regulators, and multinational corporations in complex disputes before arbitral tribunals and superior courts in Kenya.
Experience
Jurisdictions worked in: Kenya
Languages fluent in: English and Hindi
*includes experience gained prior to joining Bowmans
Radhika has advised:
- Pan-African bank in a USD 25 million ICC arbitration seated in London, defending a claim by a Zambian borrower alleging unauthorized disbursement of funds. *
- Kenyan contractor in a USD 6 million ad hoc arbitration seated in Nairobi, involving allegations of breach of contract under the JBC standard form. *
- Carbacid Investments PLC and Aksaya Investments LLP in a contested USD 38 million takeover bid for BOC Kenya Limited, with proceedings before the Capital Markets Tribunal and the Commercial Division of the High Court. *
- Uber B.V. in a representative action filed in Kenya challenging changes to its pricing model, including a claim for damages linked to the alleged impact of price reductions. *
- Attorney General before the Supreme Court of Kenya in a petition concerning the applicability of the Basic Structure Doctrine within the Kenyan constitutional framework. *
- National Bank of Kenya in certification proceedings before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, arising from a KES 2.2 billion judgment related to the exercise of the bank’s statutory power of sale. *
- Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation in litigation brought by depositors of Imperial Bank (K) Limited (In Liquidation), challenging the legality and duration of its receivership. *
- Central Bank of Kenya in a claim by former directors and shareholders of Charterhouse Bank Limited (In Liquidation), seeking KES 84 billion in damages for alleged unlawful placement of the bank under statutory management. *
- KCB Bank (K) Limited in proceedings filed by directors of Pearl Beach Hotels Limited following the Bank’s enforcement of its security through receivership over a KES 5.2 billion facility. *
- SBM Bank (Kenya) Limited in a dispute with Afrasia Bank Limited concerning the treatment of USD 7.5 million deposited with Chase Bank Kenya Limited under receivership, with key issues involving the Transfer of Business Act and Kenya Deposit Insurance Act. *
- Cerba HealthCare SAS in complex shareholder litigation brought by the former CEO of Pathologists Lancet Kenya Limited and Lancet Services Company Kenya Limited, involving claims relating to dividends, sweat equity, and loan capitalisation. *
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Kent.
- European Legal Studies from the University of Vienna.
- Post-graduate Diploma in Law Kenya School of Law, Kenya
Professional Memberships
- Law Society of Kenya.
INSIGHTS
Overview
Radhika is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice group. She focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular experience in insolvency and restructuring, construction, banking and financial services, and shareholder disputes.
She advises both local and international clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, capital markets, and infrastructure. Her recent work includes representing commercial banks, regulators, and multinational corporations in complex disputes before arbitral tribunals and superior courts in Kenya.
Experience
Jurisdictions worked in: Kenya
Languages fluent in: English and Hindi
*includes experience gained prior to joining Bowmans
Radhika has advised:
- Pan-African bank in a USD 25 million ICC arbitration seated in London, defending a claim by a Zambian borrower alleging unauthorized disbursement of funds. *
- Kenyan contractor in a USD 6 million ad hoc arbitration seated in Nairobi, involving allegations of breach of contract under the JBC standard form. *
- Carbacid Investments PLC and Aksaya Investments LLP in a contested USD 38 million takeover bid for BOC Kenya Limited, with proceedings before the Capital Markets Tribunal and the Commercial Division of the High Court. *
- Uber B.V. in a representative action filed in Kenya challenging changes to its pricing model, including a claim for damages linked to the alleged impact of price reductions. *
- Attorney General before the Supreme Court of Kenya in a petition concerning the applicability of the Basic Structure Doctrine within the Kenyan constitutional framework. *
- National Bank of Kenya in certification proceedings before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, arising from a KES 2.2 billion judgment related to the exercise of the bank’s statutory power of sale. *
- Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation in litigation brought by depositors of Imperial Bank (K) Limited (In Liquidation), challenging the legality and duration of its receivership. *
- Central Bank of Kenya in a claim by former directors and shareholders of Charterhouse Bank Limited (In Liquidation), seeking KES 84 billion in damages for alleged unlawful placement of the bank under statutory management. *
- KCB Bank (K) Limited in proceedings filed by directors of Pearl Beach Hotels Limited following the Bank’s enforcement of its security through receivership over a KES 5.2 billion facility. *
- SBM Bank (Kenya) Limited in a dispute with Afrasia Bank Limited concerning the treatment of USD 7.5 million deposited with Chase Bank Kenya Limited under receivership, with key issues involving the Transfer of Business Act and Kenya Deposit Insurance Act. *
- Cerba HealthCare SAS in complex shareholder litigation brought by the former CEO of Pathologists Lancet Kenya Limited and Lancet Services Company Kenya Limited, involving claims relating to dividends, sweat equity, and loan capitalisation. *
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