Curriculum vitae
Muriuki Muriungi
Partner, Financial Services Practice of KMK Africa Advocates LLP
Nairobi, Kenya Financial Regulation, Corporate Finance, Law & Economics, Public Policy
Experience
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Sep 2018 – Present
Partner, Financial Services Practice
KMK Africa Advocates LLP
Advise and act for corporates, lenders and borrowers in various corporate finance transactions, and advise on financial regulation issues to market players and financial market regulators. Also undertake commercial litigation. -
Sep 2025 – Jun 2026
Short Term Consultant
The World Bank Group — Finance, Competitiveness and Investments (FCI) Global Practice
Supported the FCI Global Practice in Nairobi with the Supporting Access to Finance and Enterprise Recovery (SAFER) project and the Kenya Affordable Housing Finance Project 2 — coordinating projects, policy dialogue, legal and policy review, client engagement with government and policy makers, project documentation and research. -
Mar 2021 – Dec 2022
Consultant Policy Analyst
Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD)
Supported the Policy and Financial Market Infrastructure Project at FSD Kenya, working with financial sector regulators including the Central Bank of Kenya, the National Treasury, the Competition Authority of Kenya and SASRA to influence policy change across Green Finance, Credit Markets, Payment Systems, Competition/Antitrust, Digital Economy, Data Protection, Consumer Protection and Affordable Housing.
Education
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2017 – 2018
Master of Science in Law and Finance
University of Oxford (Faculty of Law / Saïd Business School)
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Ongoing
Bachelor of Economics
University of Nairobi
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2015 – 2016
Master of Laws (LL.M) in Public Finance and Financial Services Law
University of Nairobi
Thesis: Towards a Legal Framework on Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A View from Developing Economies
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2016 – 2016
Postgraduate Diploma in Law
Kenya School of Law
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2011 – 2015
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Upper Second Class Honours
University of Nairobi
Thesis: Legal and Procedural Technicalities in Resolution of Electoral Disputes in the Supreme Court of Kenya: A Review of the Legal Framework and Emerging Jurisprudence
Memberships & admissions
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Member
Law Society of Kenya
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Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
High Court of Kenya
Selected research
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Inequality Dimensions of Kenya's Responses to COVID-19With Naomi Musau
The First 100 days of Covid-19 (A. Stojanovic, L Scarcella & C Mosalagae eds., Springer Nature, 2023) · 2023
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Directors' Duties and Climate Change in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africaex/Ante, 2023 (Special issue), 65–76 · 2023
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Saving Uhuru Park: The Imperatives of Maintaining Open Public Spaces in the Wake of Mega-Infrastructural ProjectsWith P Kameri-Mbote & H Yahyah
East Africa Law Journal, Special Issue on the Impacts of the Nairobi Expressway on the Rights of People · 2021
Languages
English (Fluent), Swahili (Fluent), Kimeru (Native)
Interests
Football (Liverpool FC), Economic History & History of Economic Thought, Investing, Global Affairs