Biography:
Ombo Malumbe is a strategic legal service provider and a co-founder of Ong’anya Ombo Advocates LLP dba O’Bang Law, where he heads the Corporate, Commercial & Cross-Border Practice. He has demonstrated impeccable expertise in providing corporate entities with business-oriented solutions for their local and cross-border needs in Kenya.
He leads the team that recently made O’Bang Law get ranked in the 2026 FinTech Rankings by Chambers & Partners for offering licensing solutions to FinTech entities in Kenya.
Ombo has advised Search Funds, multijurisdictional Data Breach, successfully applied for FinTech licenses from the Central Bank of Kenya, advised on ESG & Climate Financing to two multinationals, structured credit agreements for multinationals, conducting due diligence for hard commodities transactions worth more than US$500 million, saved entities from bad M&A deals, secured multinationals from being penalized by regulators in Kenya, advised a Chinese company on setting up a motorcycle assembly in Kenya, structuring the Government-to-Government requirements for air licensing between the Government of Kenya and the Kingdom of Bahrain, insolvency and dissolution mechanisms, strategic negotiated recovery of US$1.5 million for its Turkish Client, structuring multinational distributorship agreements, acts as liaison office for multinationals for transactions in Africa & Europe, among others.
He has, in three instances, represented Clients’ interests at the National Treasury and the National Budget Committee, resulting in changes to the definitions and application of tax laws in Kenya. These areas were touching on e-commerce and digital assets-related taxes.