Joyce Mbithe

Joyce Mbithe

Partner

Joyce is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds an LLB from Moi University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Communications Technology from the Institute of Advanced Technology.

Her practice areas cover technology law, telecommunications law, data protection and privacy, dispute resolution, conveyancing, and commercial transactions.

Email Address
enquiries.kncadvocates@outlook.com
Phone Number
0712434332

Overview

Joyce is a commercial law expert with extensive in-house experience. She therefore provides valuable business and legal perspectives to matters that protect the legal interests of clients, driven by her passion of seeing businesses thrive and helping facilitate those successes.

She provides legal and strategic advice on all things related to the business, including C-Suite Management, SaaS negotiations, data centers, employment relations, data privacy, E-Commerce, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Screening, and everything in between. She also has experience in litigation, managing outside counsel, and New Market Expansion.

Joyce works directly with business and other stakeholder teams to provide day-to-day counseling, contribute to projects, negotiate contracts, and address vendor issues. She is adept at synthesizing legal requirements across many jurisdictions and providing risk-calibrated solutions, and has an ability to distill complex issues into concise and actionable guidance.

Experience

  • Provided comprehensive employment law advice to a multinational telecom company, ensuring compliance with labor laws and employee relations regulations across 5+ jurisdictions, reducing employment disputes by 50% within 6 months.

  • Worked closely with legal, finance, and operations teams of a multinational company to align business strategies with regulatory requirements, facilitating an increase in cross-functional compliance success.

  • Assessed and reviewed legal risk management strategies for a multinational company, including insurance coverage, ensuring adequate protection for the business and reducing legal risk exposure.

  • Reviewed, drafted, and negotiated a wide range of commercial contracts, ensuring all contracts were aligned with the business objectives the client and an increase in annual contract value.

  • Implemented dispute management strategies, overseeing legal disputes and claims against the client company, which helped mitigate potential legal exposure and protected company assets.

  • Drafted and negotiated commercial agreements, including the sale of goods agreements, lease agreements, employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and joint venture agreements for various client.

  • Prepared and delivered detailed due diligence reports.

  • Represented clients in complex litigation cases.