Kamau Karori, SC

Kamau Karori, SC is a Senior Counsel and Senior Partner at IKM Advocates, where he heads the Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He specialises in dispute resolution, commercial litigation, and international arbitration, and has been involved in the most significant and precedent-setting commercial disputes in Kenya's High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court.

Kamau is a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch), the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration (NCIA), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC). He serves as Kenya's delegate on the arbitration panel of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and is also listed as an arbitrator by the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). He has been retained in major arbitrations both as counsel and as an arbitrator, with a client list that includes multinationals and local blue-chip companies.

Kamau holds an LL.B from the University of Nairobi and is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He is consistently ranked in Tier 1 in both litigation and arbitration by Chambers Global and is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in Kenya.