Associate - Private Client /Trusts & Estates

Role Overview

Advise individuals, families, trustees and family-owned businesses on how to structure, protect and transfer wealth. You will combine technical legal work—such as preparing fiduciary documents and analysing succession options—with direct client and adviser coordination, helping clients put practical, well-governed plans into effect.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice on trusts, estate administration, succession planning, wealth preservation and family wealth arrangements.
• Prepare and review trust deeds, wills and related estate-planning and fiduciary documents.
• Assist with setting up and administering trusts and other fiduciary structures, including governance matters.
• Assess asset-holding, investment and family-business structures, identifying relevant legal, regulatory and governance risks.
• Carry out legal research and due diligence, and prepare opinions, memoranda and other client advice.
• Coordinate client matters and communicate with clients, trustees and external professional advisers.
• Support senior lawyers on matters involving local and multinational clients, contributing careful analysis and high-quality drafting.
• Build professional relationships and contribute to business development through collaboration and effective engagement with clients and networks.

Requirements & Qualifications

• LLB degree with a strong academic record.
• Admission to practise law in Kenya.
• Two to five years of post-qualification experience.
• Sound knowledge of trust and succession law, estate planning and private-client practice.
• Strong drafting, analytical, research and negotiation skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Clear communication and presentation skills, and the ability to work effectively in a large, fast-moving team.
• Commercial judgement and experience supporting senior lawyers on matters for local and multinational clients.
• Confidence engaging with clients and developing productive internal and external professional relationships.

What We Offer / Why Join

• A collaborative environment within a top-tier legal practice.
• Exposure to significant transactions across Africa.
• Structured professional development and clear opportunities for career progression.
• Remuneration that reflects experience.
• The chance to contribute to a firm pursuing a pan-African direction.