Built by advocates, operated as a practice.
RegWatch is not a software company's product with lawyers attached. It is MNL Advocates LLP's regulatory practice, delivered through a platform, and every piece of intelligence carries the firm's professional judgment.
A Nairobi law firm, fluent in technology.
MNL Advocates LLP is a Nairobi-based law firm advising fintech and digital-asset businesses, SMEs, and international organisations operating in Kenya. The firm's practice sits at the intersection of financial regulation, data protection, and emerging technology.
RegWatch grew out of a simple observation from that practice: clients don't just need legal advice when something goes wrong; they need to know what changed, what it means for them, and what to do about it, continuously. The platform is how the firm delivers that watchfulness at scale, without ever removing the advocate from the loop.
“Nothing reaches a client that a qualified advocate has not read, understood, and put their name to.”
The operating principle behind RegWatch
Where the advocates are, at every stage.
AI accelerates the work, but the firm owns it. These are the four places MNL advocates sit inside the RegWatch pipeline.
Source & curate
MNL advocates monitor the official gazettes, regulator circulars, and policy notices directly from the issuing bodies. Every document that enters RegWatch is selected, verified, and tagged by the legal team; nothing is scraped or ingested automatically.
Analyse & draft
Briefings are drafted by MNL associates with AI-assisted research, translating regulatory instruments into plain-language obligations, deadlines, and action items relevant to each client's operations.
Review & approve
No briefing or document reaches a client without a qualified advocate explicitly approving it. The approval is recorded against the advocate's name and timestamp, and this gate is enforced at the database layer, not by policy alone.
Advise beyond the platform
When a briefing raises a question the platform cannot answer, clients escalate directly to the firm. RegWatch is the front door to a full legal practice, not a replacement for it.
One continuum, from briefing to counsel.
RegWatch and the firm are not separate services. A subscription is a standing relationship with MNL Advocates LLP; the platform handles the continuous monitoring, and the advocates step in wherever a matter needs them.
RegWatch briefing
Advocate-approved regulatory intelligence, delivered to your dashboard
AI follow-up
Clarifying questions answered by AI, scoped to your assigned documents
Advocate consultation
Direct access to the MNL team when a matter needs human judgment
Formal engagement
Full legal representation and advisory through MNL Advocates LLP
RegWatch briefings are regulatory intelligence prepared by the firm for its clients. Where a matter requires formal legal advice or representation, it is handled through an engagement with MNL Advocates LLP in the ordinary course.
The duties of a law firm, built into the software.
Named accountability
Every approval on the platform carries the name of the advocate who made it. Accountability is individual and permanent; approvals cannot be edited or deleted after the fact.
Lawyer-led onboarding
There is no self-signup. Every client on RegWatch has been onboarded by an MNL advocate, with jurisdiction assignments configured to match their actual regulatory exposure.
Confidentiality by design
Client documents and conversations are isolated per organisation at the database and AI layers. The same duty of confidentiality that governs the firm's practice governs the platform.
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