Silas Jakakimb
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Managing Partner
As an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, Silas has over 15 years’ experience in legal practice. His wealth of experience also spans the broader practice spaces of investment environment assessments, legal due diligence, compliance and regulatory advisories, climate finance, public policy and government relations, contract management, corporate governance, dispute resolution, legal and political risk analysis for both local and regional corporates and, multi-nationals seeking to venture into the African Emerging Markets especially the Eastern and Southern African blocks. As an accomplished policy analyst and legal researcher, he has successfully led complex governance, policy, trade, investments and legal consultancies for private and the public sector in the African continent including but not limited to policy and legislative reforms.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2020, Silas was a Senior Partner at Jakakimba & Lagat Advocates for four years and had before that, practiced at Kithure Kindiki & Associates, where he honed his litigation, corporate and commercial practice skills as an Associate. Silas was also a Research Fellow at the African Democratic Institute, a think-tank based in Johannesburg, South Africa, which offers institutional and policy interventions geared towards grounding good governance, stability, democracy, peace and security in the African continent. In that capacity, he led several outreach programmes on behalf of the African Democratic Institute in partnership with the African Union. Silas has worked at senior levels in the Kenyan Government including as Legal & Policy Advisor, and Senior Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya. He also brings on board a wealth of experience gained while working at the State Law Office, supervised by the Deputy Solicitor-General, during his formative years post campus.
Silas has been a Committee Member of the Law Society of Kenya serving in the Law Reform and Constitutional Committee. Silas, who successfully defended his thesis (PhD in International Law & State Security) at the University of the Witwatersrand, holds an LL.M in Policy and Governance and LL.B both from the University of Nairobi as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. He also holds a Certification (CPM) from the Mediation Training Institute of East Africa as a Certified Public Mediator and is also a Certified Public Secretary (CPS) Finalist. As a Board Member of the state-owned South Nyanza (SONY) Sugar Company Limited, he has effectively chaired the Operations Committee which has partly contributed to the recent positive trajectory of the sugar mill. His current Doctoral Research interests weigh on the effects of the current Global Financial Architecture on the ability or otherwise of the African Emerging Markets to leap forward.
He therefore boasts a wealth of experience from service to the local and global private sector and, knowledge in the workings of Government gained during his stints at the Kenyan State Law Office and Office of the Prime Minister- and maintains a keen interest in seeing to functional public policies supportive of a robust intra-African trade and emergence of a fair global financial architecture that supports green transitions and accessible climate finance solutions to African countries and the global south in general.