Compliance & contract lifecycle · Kenya
The Kenyan statute book,
already loaded.
Lawwiz Africa maintains the catalog of Kenyan laws and the obligations they create, matches them to your company, and holds the evidence that you met them.
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Most compliance software gives you an empty register and wishes you luck.
Why the spreadsheet fails
Nobody knows the full list
Obligations sit across the Companies Act, tax, labour, sector regulation, county requirements and licence conditions. The list you work from is the list someone remembered to write down.
The list goes stale
Laws are amended. Regulators change filing requirements. The spreadsheet does not know. The first sign it is out of date is usually a penalty notice.
The business changes
Hire your first employee, open a branch in another county, add a regulated service line — a new set of obligations attaches immediately, and nothing tells you.
“We complied” is a claim
When the regulator, auditor or acquirer asks for proof, the evidence is in someone’s inbox or gone. Compliance that cannot be evidenced is compliance that did not happen.
Contracts are worse
Signed originals in a cabinet nobody has indexed. Renewals discovered after auto-renewal. Counterparties onboarded without KYC.
Accountability is diffuse
When a deadline is missed it is nobody’s fault, because it was nobody’s job.
Five modules on one obligation engine
Everything the company owes — to a regulator, to its own board, or to somebody it signed with — ends up in the same place, with an owner and a date.
Compliance
What the company owes
Legal, governance and business obligations on one engine: owner, department, deadline, reminders, evidence, approval and breach.
Contracts
What the company signed
Draft to expiry, with execution and verification held by different roles, counterparty KYC, and the physical custody of the original.
Bonds
What the company has pledged
Customs and security bonds held as their own register, by class, value and expiry date, with their own reporting.
Audit
What the company can prove
A period and the Acts in scope; every filing that was expected, what was found, and who was given each gap to close.
Registers & reporting
What the company can show
Statutory registers kept in the system, and the reports that turn all of the above into a board pack.
One engine underneath — an owner, a date, a reminder and a record — which is why executing a contract raises compliance obligations automatically. These are not five systems bolted together.
How it works
- 1 Catalog of Kenyan law, maintained by our legal team
- 2 Matched to your company type, services and jurisdictions
- 3 Assigned to a named owner, with a deadline
- 4 Reminded before it falls due
- 5 Evidence filed, reviewed and approved
- 6 Recorded as complied — or a breach is raised automatically
What the product does
A catalog that stays current
Kenyan laws, sections, regulators and the obligations they create — researched and maintained by our legal team, so your register is right on day one and stays right.
Obligations that find you
Tell us your company type, services and jurisdictions. The obligations that apply flow in automatically. Hire someone or open a branch, and the new ones attach themselves.
Evidence, not assurances
Owners upload proof against each obligation. Reviewers approve or send it back. When the regulator asks, the file is already assembled.
Breaches raised automatically
A deadline that passes with nothing filed raises a breach on its own — with the statutory consequence and penalty attached, so the cost of the gap is never a surprise.
Contracts with real controls
Draft to execution, verification, renewal and expiry. Your legal officer executes, your company secretary verifies, and the system will not let one person do both.
Know your counterparties
Every counterparty carries a KYC checklist. Missing documents are requested by email from inside the system, and contracts executed without them are reported.
Registers, maintained
Register of Members, CR12 and beneficial ownership, contracts and statutory compliance registers — kept in the system, not in a folder nobody has opened this year.
Bonds that don’t lapse quietly
Customs and security bonds on their own register, by class, value and expiry. Status is derived from the date, never typed in — so you always know what you are bonded for and what lapses next quarter.
Audits that hand the gap to someone
Pick a period and the Acts in scope. The system works out every filing that should have happened and grades each one: complied, complied late, filed but not approved, no evidence, never tracked. Every exception can then be assigned — in bulk — to a primary owner with a remediation deadline and an escalation owner behind them. The owner receives one email per finding; replying with the document attached files it against the finding and closes it as complied late.
The report and the evidence, in one folder
The audit report groups exceptions by Act, by owner and by cycle, with each finding under its own reference. Download it as a PDF, or as a ZIP that holds the report, every evidence file named by its finding reference, and an index — ready to hand to a regulator or an external auditor as a folder that explains itself.
Reporting your board will accept
Executive summary, compliance by law and by regulator, breaches and penalties, expiring contracts, counterparties without KYC. Ready when the meeting is.
Email that comes back
Notifications go out by email, and replies are read back in and attached to the obligation they came from — so the correspondence lives on the record instead of in an inbox.
Three kinds of obligation, one engine
Not everything a company must do is written in a statute. Each type carries the same owner, deadline, reminder schedule, evidence trail and approval step. What differs is where the requirement comes from — so a gap reads as either legal exposure or an internal commitment slipping.
Legal
Required by law
Imposed by statute or regulation, cited to the law and section and owed to a named authority. Supplied and kept current by the Lawwiz catalog.
Annual returns · tax filings · business permit renewal · work injury benefits cover
Governance
Required to run the company properly
How the company is directed and controlled — board, constitutional and internal-control requirements. Some owed to a regulator, some purely internal.
Appointment or removal of a director · change of registered office · register of members update
Business
Required by the business, of itself
Commitments the company takes on: strategic objectives, internal best practice, and every obligation a contract creates when it is executed.
Strategic objectives · best-practice standards · contract KYC, document and custody tasks
Who it is for
Compliance managers and officers
Stop maintaining the register by hand. The obligations that apply to your company arrive already researched, with owners, deadlines and the evidence trail attached.
Company secretaries
Statutory registers, board and constitutional requirements, and contract verification with recorded custody of the signed original.
General counsel and heads of legal
The full contract lifecycle with segregation of duties enforced — the officer who executes cannot also verify.
Finance directors
Breaches carry the statutory penalty from the catalog, so exposure is quantified rather than discovered.
Internal and external audit
Read-only access to a complete, timestamped record: who was assigned what, what was filed, who approved it and when. Run a period audit against the Acts in scope, assign each finding, and hand over the report and its evidence as one folder.
Access that fits the org chart
Officers file. Department heads review. Company secretaries verify. Auditors read and nothing else.
Your data, on its own
Every client gets an isolated database — not a shared table with a filter. Documents are reachable only through signed, expiring links. Everything is logged. Backups run nightly.
We describe what the system does, and nothing else. Where a certification or a formal security standard is not held, this site does not claim one.