McKay Advocates are a young full-service firm offering innovative and bespoke legal services in Litigation, Intellectual Property, Real Estate & Finance and Commercial Law. Located in Westlands the firm consists of five partners supported by a team of lawyers and support staff with expertise in diverse areas of legal practice.

Join their experienced legal team as they take you through the Legal Aspects of Urban Living and Property Tech in Nairobi and Africa as a whole!

The workshop will cover the introduction to the concept of Urban Living and Property Tech with a special focus on green projects (green buildings). It will highlight the key legal issues that arise in the area of Urban Living and Property Tech in Kenyan law, with a comparative focus on developments in other countries and lastly explore the legal, policy and institutional issues of Urban Living and Property Tech with a focus on green buildings, green technology urban & peri-urban forestry and greening.

The areas of interest are:
• What constitutes a green building and whether there are any incentives to go green.
• The legal and policy considerations for promoting contemporary Urban Living and Property Tech.
• The law and regulations touching on land use, physical planning, environmental planning and change of user that affect Urban Living and Property Tech.
• Contractual approaches to maintaining green attributes of a development e.g. covenants in design contracts, construction contracts, purchase agreements and lease agreements;
• Intellectual Property laws and how they affect Urban Living and Property Tech.
• Leveraging on Property Tech and Green (Property) Technology to obtain project finance via tradable green bonds.

Come and interact with the team from McKay Advocates as they share their knowledge on this month’s Mettā theme Urban Living & Property Tech and why innovation, better planning and development will help build resilient cities of the future.

Doors open at 10:00 am see you then!