Echessa & Bwire Advocates LLP offers an array of legal services in Banking and Finance sector ranging from finance and banking litigation to advice in non-contentious compositions, and counsel in pre litigation scenarios, to preemptively protect clients’ interests, to either obviate litigation and or to safeguard clients’ interests in the event of litigation.
At Echessa & Bwire Advocates LLP, we assist clients with complex issues involving securities law and personal or commercial banking. We provide advice and legal services to investors, traders, shareholders, industry professionals, corporate clients and individual account holders. We offer our clients all of the resources available at larger firms, but with the personalized touch and dedicated service of a small business.
It is the skill, experience and intuitive ability of our advocates to negotiate and prepare documents for all types of bank holding companies, national banking associations, state banking institutions, trust companies, mortgage lenders, insurance companies, asset-based lenders and governmental entities with mortgage loan programs that keeps our clients coming back to us for advice on banking regulatory issues, commercial and consumer lending transactions, construction and bridge loans, corporate restructures, and bankruptcy and credit transactions.
The designated legal team in this sphere of practice keeps abreast with the developments of commercial practice, locally and internationally, since service is transnational.
As astute professionals in this department of the law, the firm followed the discussion in Kenya, and internationally concerning bank interest rates regulation, and its ramification, and filed Petition No. 413 of 2016 Bonface Oduor vs. Attorney General of Kenya and Central Bank of Kenya, and were successful in obtaining the High Court’s Judgment declaring that the amendment to the Banking Act and introduction of interest rate regulation was unconstitutional.