Fred Ojiambo > Kaplan & Stratton Advocates > Nairobi, Kenya > Lawyer Profile

Kaplan & Stratton Advocates
9TH FLOOR, WILLIAMSON HOUSE
4TH NGONG AVENUE
PO BOX 40111-00100 NAIROBI
Kenya

Work Department

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Fred Ojiambo is the Senior Partner at Kaplan & Stratton. He qualified as a Kenyan advocate and joined Kaplan & Stratton in 1974. He joined the partnership in 1981 and became senior partner in 1994. His main area of practice is civil litigation in the following areas: banking, insurance, medical negligence and malpractice issues, land disputes, commercial transactions, international trade, construction and environmental law, judicial review, public international law claims, employment, debt collection, criminal law, arbitration and mediation. Fred mainly handles matters before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Employment and Labour Relations Court and other specialist tribunals. He has also participated in various judicial and public inquiries.

Fred has been instructed on several landmark and precedent setting cases. By way of example he represented the Communication Authority of Kenya in the Supreme Court in relation to a dispute regarding the roll out of the digital migration framework in Kenya. The matter had enormous implications on both civilian and non-civilian communication traffic in Kenya.

Fred is a previous chair of the Law Society of Kenya, he is a Senior Counsel and chairs the committee on senior counsel. He is a chair of Stanbic Bank, Stanbic Holdings Group Limited, Biblica (formerly International Bible Society), and the national task force on reforms in the legal sector.

Languages

English 
Kiswahili

Memberships

Law Society of Kenya
International Bar Association
Commonwealth Law Association

Education

Kenya School of Law – Bar Qualifying Examinations
University of Nairobi, Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

Lawyer Rankings

Kenya > Dispute resolution

(Leading individuals)

Fred OjiamboKaplan & Stratton Advocates

Boasting an impressive client portfolio drawn from key industry sectors including commodities, construction, energy, insurance, financial services, and international trade, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates enjoys a secure position in the dispute resolution, mediation and arbitration space. The practice is routinely engaged in commercial disputes, class actions, and shareholder and company disputes. Fred Ojiambo, who often appears in high-profile criminal and civil suits, leads, and the team is reinforced by competition law specialist Peter Gachuhi, tax expert Nazima Malik, trade and industrial relations disputes expert Esther Kinyenje, and employment law authority Cosima Wetende. James Muthui and Peter Njeru support on intellectual property and procurement projects, respectively.