Member Profiles

Accomplished Sports and Sports Event lawyer with 8 years' achievement organizing and leading operational delivery of major sports events in Japan and a further 6 years managing global events. A subject matter expert in sports law, advises International Sports Federations, develops and executes strategic programs ensuring rights protection and media campaigns to continuously drive promotion, strengthen market position and increase business revenue and ensures event delivery standards are met. Also experienced at managing multiple stakeholder relationships from local organising committees, rights owners, sponsors to vendors. With career-long success in sports business management, legal consultation, and event organization, is a skilled, commercially focused negotiator who ensures events deliver on revenue forecasts and on contractual obligations to sponsors, advertisers, stakeholders and the local organisation committees in compliance with city/host agreements.

FranckelLaw was established in 2008 by Advocate Simon Franckel, calling on his experience as an English solicitor – called in 1989 – and a Jersey Advocate since 2004. Since then the firm has grown steadily and the firm has established itself as a specialist dispute resolution law firm.

John Morris Ohaga is the Managing Partner at TripleOKLaw LLP Advocates. JMO, as he is known to his friends and colleagues, is a focused individual and is celebrated as a formidable leader, inspiring every team in the firm to strive for the best results in any situation. His career spans more than 26 years’ during which he has been involved in numerous complex litigation matters as well as high value domestic and international arbitration cases. His expertise in the area has seen him attain the rank of Chartered Arbitrator from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). John is acknowledged as an expert practitioner in several areas of law such as administrative law, banking & finance, constitutional law, competition law, employment & labour law, property law, public procurement and sports law. He advises numerous blue-chip companies listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, many private companies, and some of Kenya’s largest State Corporations. He sits on the boards of several companies and public tribunals. John has been consistently recognized for his high-quality work and expertise in dispute resolution, including in this years’ Legal 500 Rankings 2019, Chambers Global Rankings 2019 and Best Lawyers. John was declared the 2010, 2016 and 2017 winner for Kenya in the Litigation category by the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Awards. As part of his passion for arbitration, John heads a movement of practitioners changing the landscape of alternative dispute resolution through several committees that accredit and train lawyers in the field of alternative dispute resolution. John has been the Convener of the Law Society of Kenya’s Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution for the last five (5) years. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and having recently attained the rank of Chartered Arbitrator is now on the CIArb Presidential Panel of Arbitrators. He is also a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is an experienced arbitrator and is recognized by Chambers Global as one of the leading arbitrators in Kenya. He sits on the board of the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration established under the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration Act, No. 26 of 2013 where he chairs the Legislative Review and Accreditation Committee. He is also an Accredited Mediator and is a member of the Mediation Accreditation Committee established under the Section 59A of the Civil Procedure Act where he chairs the Accreditation Sub-Committee. He is also the Chairman of the Sports Disputes Tribunal which is established under the Sports Act, 2013 and also chairs the Appeals Committee of the Advertising Standards Board.

John Morris Ohaga is the Managing Partner at TRIPLEOKLAW Advocates LLP. He has more than 24 years’ post-qualification experience during which he has been involved in numerous complex litigation as well as high value domestic and international arbitrations. He has been recognized for his high quality work and expertise in dispute resolution by Legal 500, Chambers Global and Best Lawyers. John was declared the 2010 and 2016 winner of the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Awards for Kenya in the category of litigation (www.clientchoiceawards.com). He is an experienced litigator with a particular passion for Commercial Litigation. He advises many leading companies listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, numerous private companies and some of Kenya’s largest State Corporations. Moreover, he also has significant experience in other aspects of civil litigation including Employment and Labour disputes, landlord and tenant, public procurement, intellectual property among many others. John is also an expert arbitrator and is presently a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch), a board member of the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration, a member of the Mediation Accreditation Committee and Convener of the Law Society of Kenya’s Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also the Chairman of the Kenya Sports Disputes Tribunal. John is also a member of the Programme Committee for the 2016 International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Congress. John also sits on the boards of several companies.

Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, CBS,EBS, Trail Blazer(Rtd) Judge, Certified International Mediator(IMI) Accredited Mediator, Certified Advanced Mediator and Chartered Mediator, Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, and the Kenya Branch. Prior to her election as a Judge and First Vice President of  the International Criminal Court at The Hague,  she was a Court of Appeal, High Court Judge and Magistrate in Kenya, having been the second woman to hold the positions. Upon her retirement from the bench in 2018, she successfully moved her legal profession to other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution. She conducts international mediations, Court Annexed Mediations in Kenya, and private mediations. She is the Patron of Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution(WADR). In July 2022, she  was appointed a  member of Judicial Reform Committee under the Revitalized Agreement for the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, charged with the responsibility of reforming the judiciary.  She servs in many international and regional organizations including International Advisory Board, office of the Ombudsman of the United Nations  Funds and Programs, Board Member and Chair of Governance and Ethics Committee, Mediators Beyond Boarders International (MBBI),Director of Governance and Ethics, Rotary Club of Nairobi, Board Member of Dialogue Through Conflict Foundation, Patron- Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution-Kenya and Adjunct Professor, University of Western Cape, South Africa. She is a recipient of several international and national Awards including CBS,EBS and Trail Blazer, Awarded by three  Presidents of Kenya.  In  November 2023,  in Florence-Italy, she received  an International Peace Award  from Premio Internazionale  Semplicemente Donna, and in January 2024, was appointed a member of the Jury of the Simplicemente Donna International Award. In March 2024, she  was appointed to the Global Advisory Council of G100 Global Networking.