Team

Eric Mutua SC is a Senior Counsel (SC) in Kenyan Bar, an advocate of the High Court of Kenya of more than 27 years good standing having been admitted to the bar in 1995. He is also a Certified Public Secretary, a Notary Public, Commissioner of Oaths and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Kenyan Chapter. He is the Managing Partner of E.K. Mutua & Company Advocates.

Mr. Mutua SC is an astute litigation lawyer who has handled numerous complex commercial and constitutional litigation. He is a recipient of MEA African Legal 100, an award conferred upon the best 100 African lawyers in litigation. He is also well established as a commercial lawyer, legal consultant, legislative drafter and expert in Mining Law and Extractive.

In litigation, within 5 years of his admission to the bar Eric Mutua SC made headlines after successfully representing Eric Keter, an International athlete, at the Court of Appeal, against Kenya Amateur Athletics Association having been unfairly denied opportunity to represent Kenya at the Sydney Olympics in year 2000.

Recently, he argued the landmark Mitu-bell case, which case featured prominently in the recently concluded interview for the position of Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya, at the Supreme Court. Judgement in the said case was delivered on 11^th January 2021.

Eric Mutua SC has extensive experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. One of his ground breaking commercial law cases is the Kenya Airports Authority litigation against Kamlesh Pattni, where the court set aside an Arbitration award of a sum of Kshs. 7.8 Billion when it agreed with him on the recognition and binding nature of International Arbitral proceedings to Kenyan courts and tribunals.

Eric Mutua SC is also a legal consultant and has handled many assignments for established institutions especially in the area of mining rights and extractives. He acted as a consultant in negotiating the Benefit Sharing Agreement for the Mui Basin Coal Project in Kitui County. He has been a UNDP consultant on Extractive Industry and developed the report on “Review of Policy and Legislative Framework in Extractive Industry and Consideration of Women, Youth and Vulnerable-A comparative study of Turkana, Kitui and Kwale Counties.”

Mercy Ndanu Muthui-Kyalo Advocate is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a legal expert in insurance law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has 22 years experience in the practice of law in Kenya.

She holds a Bachelors degree in law (LLB) from the University of Nairobi and a Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.

She has worked in the insurance industry and constitutional bodies.

She speaks English, Swahili and French.