Jared Kangwana

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Jared advises on insurance related matters across Africa and has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of complex and high-value issues. He advises international insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries providing strategic advice on transactional, regulatory and risk related matters, drawing on deep knowledge of the insurance landscape across the continent. 

His practice covers regulatory compliance, policy wording review and interpretation, claims and coverage disputes, product development, reinsurance structuring and cross-border transactions.  

Jared regularly works with clients operating in the insurance ,healthcare, financial services, aviation, education, energy, retail and consumer, and technology sectors across multiple jurisdictions such as Kenya, Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. His work also includes guiding businesses through geo-political and regulatory challenges, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk in diverse and rapidly evolving legal environments.

In addition to his client work, Jared plays a leading role in the firm’s Africa insurance practice through his involvement at Africa Exco Level, contributing to the development and coordination of insurance strategy across the region.

Jared is an English-trained Advocate and admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. This dual qualification enables him to navigate matters governed by English Law, whilst providing local counsel within Kenya. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

相关经验

Insurance

• Making an application for registration of a claims settling agent with the Insurance Regulatory Authority
•  Advising Axis Capital (UK) in relation to their claims handling procedures in Kenya.
• Advising Proclaim (India) in relation to loss adjusting business in Kenya.
• Advising a UK-based underwriter on claims management for claims emanating out of Kenya.
• Advising a pan African reinsurance broker on the restructuring of its Kenyan operations on regulatory restrictions.
• Advising a global reinsurance broker on de-registration of its licence in Kenya.
• Advising a global medical insurance provider on licencing as a medical insurance provider in Kenya.
• Advising a large global health insurance provider with regards to the placement under statutory management of its local insurance partner.
• Advising a large global insurance company on the restructuring of its operations across 14 African jurisdictions.
• Advising a Swiss-based company on the impact of Kenyan insurance regulations in respect to their Container Guarantee Solutions.
• Advising Wills Towers Watson on reinsurance and reinsurance brokerage requirements in Kenya.
• Advising on proportional and non-proportional reinsurance arrangements in Africa.
• Advising on licensing requirements/exemptions for insurers, intermediaries and reinsurers in Africa.
• Advising on transactional structures within the insurance sector from a regulatory perspective.
• Advising a global reinsurer on treaty responses in Ethiopia, from claims originating from civil disruption in Ethiopia.
• Advising a global reinsurer on its rights under treaty following continued non-disclosure by its cedant.
• Advising on political violence claims in Malawi.
• Advised multiple lead reinsurers on various aviation incidents in Kenya.
• Advised a global reinsurer on liability and quantum on aviation claims in Sudan.
• Drafting of reinsurance treaties between local cedants and foreign reinsurers.

Aviation

• Acting on the financing of 20 E190 aircraft for Kenya Airways by way of sale/leaseback from a range of operating lessors.
• Advising The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Local User Board on its agreement for the provision of Common Use Terminal equipment and the provision of Common Use Self-Service kiosks at Kenya's main airport.
• Advising on the liability claims arising out of an accident to Kenya Airways flight KQ507 which crashed immediately after take-off from Douala International Airport.
• Acting for insurers on Nairobi total loss of aircraft on departure from Jomo Kenyatta Airport (2014).
• Advising a leading global airline on the application of the Montreal Convention in Kenya in relation to Conditions of Carriage following a personal injury claim by one of its passengers while travelling to Kenya. 
• Advising Chubb insurance with regards to a claim that involved aviation coverage for significant damages, involving damage to a hangered helicopter occasioned by a maneuvering fuel tanker.
• Advising Pro Flight Limited and insurers in a fatal aircraft accident claim and preparing response to demand for compensation for death in accident involving helicopter owned and operated by Pro Flight.
• Acting for Pro Flight Limited in a suit filed against it by the family of the deceased in a fatal accident involving one of its aircraft.
• Advising a hull reinsurer, on the merits of declinature in a claim involving a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX.
• Conducting a wreckage handover exercise on behalf of our client, the insurer, of a Bell 505X Helicopter. 
• Advising LRA on a claim involving a bird-strike to the insured’s aircraft.
• Advising an international insurer in regard to the arrest and release of its insured’s aircraft in Nairobi. 

Finance and regulatory

• Advising Bank of New York Mellon Asset Management International Limited relating to investment management activities proposed to be undertaken by an employee of AMI’s representative office.
• Advising on bank guarantees for various amounts to be issued by African Banking Corporation Limited in favour of banks in the various jurisdictions providing guarantees to MoDe Yellow Holdings Limited to secure their obligations arising out of an advance credit service with subsidiaries of Mobile Telephone Network (MTN).
• Advising East Africa Breweries Limited in connection with a proposed debt capital raising by way of commercial paper issue.
• Advising on the establishment of Maisha Microfinance Bank Limited, a deposit taking micro finance bank regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya.
• Advising a digital lender on an investment by Ceniarth LLC in the form of a convertible note.
• Advising Apollo Agriculture on their lending structure to small scale farmers in Kenya.
• Advising Fourth Generation Capital on their on-going lending activities to small scale traders in Kenya.