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Our team advised on all local law aspect of merger control and guided the client in successfully obtaining a positive competition authority advisory opinion allowing the transaction whilst addressing very technical points of law and fact.

4 Mar 2021 1 min read Featured work

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This matter involved legal innovation that ensure we obtained the client’s objective to obtain the positive advisory opinion. Report on the transaction can be seen here: https://www.fnz.com/news-and-insights/2020/11/16/fnz-to-acquire-silica-from-ninety-one/

THE TEAM BEHIND THE DEAL

Sammy Ndolo

Kenya Managing Partner

Corporate & Commercial Law

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