Fred Ojiambo > Kaplan & Stratton Advocates > Nairobi, Kenya > Lawyer Profile
Kaplan & Stratton Advocates Offices
9TH FLOOR, WILLIAMSON HOUSE
4TH NGONG AVENUE
PO BOX 40111-00100 NAIROBI
Kenya
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Fred Ojiambo
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 partners)The dispute resolution practice Kaplan & Stratton Advocates is noted by clients for boasting ‘scale and variety of experience’ and is engaged in a broad spectrum of commercial dispute mandates, including security realisation, class actions, shareholder disputes, breach of contract, and regulatory compliance, among others. Fred Ojiambo heads the department, and is a leading practitioner of criminal and civil cases in Kenya, as well as commercial litigation and arbitration. Peter Gachuhi brings over 35 years of experience in the construction, insurance, and property sectors, while Nazima Malik and Esther Kinyenje are considered authorities in tax and industrial relations, respectively. Cosima Wetende and James Muthui are often retained for employment and intellectual property disputes, while Peter Njeru assists in international arbitrations. Elizabeth Onyango and Victor Kahura are also key members of the group.