Private Client Advocates in Nairobi, Kenya

Private client law helps individuals and families manage personal wealth, wills, and estates protecting what you’ve built across generations, and planning for both future needs and unexpected life events. It’s a field that focuses on private people rather than corporations, and it calls for the same technical rigour as any commercial practice area, alongside genuine discretion and care.

As Kenya sees a growing generation of high-net-worth individuals and, with it, a significant generational transfer of wealth, thoughtful private client advice matters more than ever. At Ondieki & Matoke Company Advocates, our Private Client practice serves individuals, families, family businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors helping preserve, grow, and pass on wealth while keeping tax exposure as efficient as the law allows.

Core Services

• Wills — Preparing legally sound wills that clearly set out how your property should be distributed after death.
• Trusts — Establishing trusts to hold and manage assets securely, whether for family members, a business, or a specific purpose.
• Probate — Guiding executors and beneficiaries through the legal steps required to administer an estate after someone passes away.
• Tax Planning — Advising on lawful structuring to minimise tax exposure on assets and estates, within the bounds of Kenyan tax law.

Who We Work With

Our Private Client practice serves individuals, families, family businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors building long-term relationships that often span not just one client’s lifetime, but their family’s next generation too.

Note: for contested succession or inheritance disputes, see our Family Law page, which handles the litigation side of estate matters → Private Client focuses on planning ahead of any dispute — wills, trusts, and estate structuring done properly the first time.

What to Expect — Our Process

• Initial consultation — a confidential conversation about your assets, family circumstances, and goals.
• Planning — we advise on the right combination of wills, trusts, and structuring for your situation.
• Drafting — we prepare the legal documents needed to put your plan into effect.
• Review — we periodically revisit your plan as circumstances change, since an estate plan drafted once and forgotten rarely still fits a decade later.
• Ongoing support — we remain available to executors, trustees, or family members when the plan needs to be put into action.