Irene Fwaya a senior associate in our Nairobi office and a member of the Mergers & Acquisition and Projects department.

Irene specialises in mergers and acquisitions.

Irene is a member of the Law Society of Kenya and is admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Catholic University of East Africa and has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law.

Relevant Experience

• Kenya Airways PLCon its capital and debt restructuring in 2017, which included secured and unsecured creditors, the Kenyan Government, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, 11 commercial banks, aircraft finance syndicates (Tsavo syndicate: EXIM Bank of the USA for the wide-bodied fleet) (Samburu lenders for the narrow body fleet), restructuring of operating lessors arrangements, negotiated with the National Treasury, the capital market regulators and aviation regulators.

Signature Matters

• Kenya Airway’s debt and equity capital restructuring