Michelle Kimonye is a senior associate in our Nairobi office and a member of the Corporate/Commercial department.

Michelle specialises in competition law at the firm. Michelle has been involved in advising on restrictive trade practice investigations for various clients and drafting complex merger filings both in Kenya and COMESA. She has also provided merger control advice to several clients on Tanzanian competition law. Her experience also extends to securities law, capital market compliance and general commercial law. She has previously advised on listings and the issuing of medium-term notes and has advised on the establishment of a commercial bank in Kenya.

She is admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and is a member of the Law Society of Kenya.

Michelle has an LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Nairobi, a LLM degree from Cardiff University and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law.

Relevant Experience

Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Kenya School of Law)
LLM Master of Laws (Cardiff University)
LLB Hons (University of Nairobi)

• Harnessing Africa’s free trade agenda – AfCFTA Protocol on Competition
• A new dawn for the buyer-supplier relationship in Kenya
• COMESA: A competition regime for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa