Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Kenya – An Outline for German Companies

• Published in: Recht in Afrika
• Main Author: Jörg Kleis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2016
• Subjects: Asia and Eurasia; Africa; Pacific Area; and Antarctica; KL-KWX; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6270-2015-2-248; https://doaj.org/article/8cf7d21ca33f4991a4ed3f35742670af

The Kenyan market is one example of business opportunities in Africa. Kenya shows notable improvements in terms of business-related reforms while being in continuous need of investments in the energy and infrastructural sector. Still, many European companies and investors, particularly the German Mittelstand, are reluctant when it comes to implementing a project. Doing the math is not as much of a problem. Instead, there remain several unanswered, but essential legal questions. In the case of Kenya they concern investment conditions, competences, procedures and pertinent material regulations to finally engage in doing business.