East African Breweries Limited (EABL) is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business with a number of notable brands in the beverage industry including beers, spirits and non-alcoholic drinks, and from its Kenyan base produces some of Africa’s best known products in these categories including the iconic Tusker Lager.

Group legal director Wambui Kosgey is highlighted as one of Africa’s most outstanding in-house lawyers, receiving particular praise for her contribution to EABL’s recent asset sales including the sale of a 32 acre piece of land on Nairobi’s Thika Highway to a London-based private equity fund. Kosgey was appointed as the group legal director of EABL in January 2015 and has since handled various high value transactions.

Her record in these transactions are commendable and a nominating source explains that she has ‘extensive experience in banking’ and that she is ‘highly respected in the Kenyan legal market’. Kosgey is part of the senior EABL executive management team and reports to the group managing director, further evidence of her ability to translate legal risk into business advice and having a voice in important strategic decision making.

Kosgey assumes a regional responsibility for legal risks, corporate governance, corporate security, information management and security as well as brand protections issues for EABL. In addition to her legal role and her membership of the executive management team, Kosgey is a convener of the board corporate governance committee and sponsor of the local chapter of the Diageo “Spirited Women” initiative for mentoring and coaching young women.