​​​Sylvia Ogola

Mboya, Wangong'u & Waiyaki Advocates - Corporate Law Firm.

​August 2015 (2 Weeks) - Nairobi, Keya

 

• Real Estate: Prepared charges for sale agreements and transfer agreements, prepared client files on real estate investment trusts, drafted licence and lease agreements.

• Corporate & Commercial: Advised clients on insurance policies for their sole

  proprietorship/partnership businesses in order to help limit their liability.

• Finance & Banking: Performed a compliance check on an information memorandum for NIC Bank on issuing medium term bonds.

• Litigation: prepared case files for on-going litigation cases, drafted replying affidavits for

  litigation case files. 

 

Kaplan & Stratton Advocates - Corporate Law Firm.

​July 2015 - August 2015 (4 Weeks) - Nairobi, Kenya

 

• Real Estate: Worked under the supervision of the Real Estate partner on various client files

  preparing and drafting lease agreements, sale agreements, Real Estate Investment Trusts

  Deeds and transfer agreements.

• Corporate & Commercial: Prepared various documents on issues relating to tax, company

  restructuring, and private limited company registration.

• Litigation: Assisted partners and associates prepared case files for on-going litigation cases, accompanied senior counsel to Supreme Court case on ‘Digital Migration’ to prepare a legal opinion for the case.

• Intellectual Property: Researched on various regulations concerning conflicts in trademark

  registration, assisted in preparing presentations on patent and copyright registration. 

 

Deutsche Bank - Investment Bank.

​July 2013 - London, England.

 

• Global Markets (Commodities): Gained knowledge on the trade and sales of various

  commodities working on trade ideas (mainly with oil and refined products derivatives focusing on swaps, futures and options), exposed to market risk research focusing on the ‘value-at risk’ of trading positions.

• Compliance: Completed a legal research & due diligence report potential investments Deutsche Bank were considering, drafting and editing of legal contracts, compliance checks on documents for various contracts, drafting letters of comfort & letters of intent.

• Foreign Exchange & Equity: Gained exposure to trade and sales of FX and equity learning about the application of financial derivatives to the trading of various FX and equity products.