Expert Legal Counsel for the Digital Business

Cavendrys is a Nairobi-based specialist law firm focused on Tech, Telecoms, Data, Fintech, IP & Innovation (TDFI). We provide strategic legal support to help businesses enter the Kenyan market, navigate regulation, structure commercial deals, resolve disputes, and drive digital transformation.

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Our Expertise

We are known for legal clarity in Kenya’s tech-driven economy. Explore our core areas of expertise.

Tech Transactions & Commercial Structuring

Tech Transactions & Commercial Structuring

We support clients in Kenya with legal advisory across Tech M&A, Private Equity, and Commercial structuring. From investment strategy to execution, we guide clients through complex deals with clarity and confidence.

Data Protection, Privacy & Data Transactions

Data Protection, Privacy & Data Transactions

We support clients in Kenya with practical legal solutions across data protection, data transactions, and cybersecurity. From audits and compliance to breach response and regulator disputes, we help you manage risk and stay legally secure in a data-driven economy.

Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure

Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure

We support telecom operators, ISPs, data centre developers, and infrastructure investors with licensing, rollout, commercial contracts, and regulatory strategy. Our guidance helps clients scale networks, access spectrum, and operate with legal clarity in Kenya’s regulated telecoms market.

Fintech & Digital Finance

Fintech & Digital Finance

We help fintechs, digital lenders, IMTs, and payment platforms navigate licensing, regulatory compliance, product rollout, and investment readiness across Kenya’s dynamic financial services sector.

 Intellectual Property & Innovation

Intellectual Property & Innovation

We help startups, scale-ups, and technology-driven businesses protect, commercialise, and enforce their IP. Recognised as one of Kenya’s leading IP law teams, we support innovation with legal clarity, from trademark protection to software licensing and investor due diligence.

Emerging Tech, SaaS & AI

Emerging Tech, SaaS & AI

We advise startups, scale-ups, and innovation-led businesses on legal and regulatory issues in SaaS, AI, blockchain, and virtual assets. Our legal support evolves with your product, helping you scale responsibly and meet shifting regulatory expectations in Kenya and beyond.

Real Estate, Infrastructure & Financing for the Digital Economy

Real Estate, Infrastructure & Financing for the Digital Economy

We advise on real estate, infrastructure, and financing transactions that support digital, commercial, and smart growth, including land, developments, offices, sites, and high-value asset-backed projects across Kenya.

Cross-Cutting Legal Services

Cross-Cutting Legal Services

In addition to our core focus areas, we provide integrated legal support in areas that cut across innovation, compliance, and growth. These capabilities allow us to offer full-spectrum advisory for complex digital and regulated businesses.

Why Choose Cavendrys

At Cavendrys, we combine legal precision with business strategy, delivering forward-thinking legal solutions for innovators across Kenya and Africa

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Global Expertise, Local Precision

We deliver seamless cross-border legal advisory grounded in real experience. Our strategies reflect a deep understanding of Kenya’s commercial and regulatory landscape, combined with insight into how global businesses operate.

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Top-Ranked Legal Experts

Our lawyers are individually ranked by Chambers Global Fintech, Legal 500, and Courtroom Mail’s 100 Most Influential African Lawyers , recognitions based on rigorous research and real client feedback. They’re well-known in the market and trusted by founders, legal departments, investors, local and global businesses who rely on their legal judgment in high-stakes situations. With Cavendrys, you’re not taking a chance. You’re working with lawyers the market already knows and respects.

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Focused Expertise in TDFI

We focus exclusively on technology, telecoms, data, fintech, intellectual property, and innovation (TDFI), giving us deep insight into the legal and regulatory dynamics shaping these fast-evolving industries. Our sector specialization allows us to anticipate challenges, move quickly, and offer advice that’s both commercially grounded and future-ready.

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Regulatory Experience & Industry Trust

We’ve successfully represented clients before regulators on licensing, compliance reviews, enforcement actions, and regulatory audits. Our deep industry knowledge, combined with hands-on regulatory experience across multiple sectors, gives clients a clear advantage, helping them anticipate legal shifts, respond strategically, and scale sustainably in Kenya and across the region.

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Agile, Innovation-Ready Support

We integrate seamlessly into our clients’ operations to deliver responsive, cost-effective legal support. Built for digital-first businesses, we understand emerging technologies and business models, helping clients move fast while staying protected.

Ready to Work With Legal Experts Who Know Your Sector?

Cavendrys advises tech-driven businesses through every stage of growth, from market entry and licensing to tech M&A, data compliance, commercial structuring, and IP protection

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