Alexandra Kontos cofounded Walker Kontos with Peter Walker in 1988.   She has qualified as an Advocate in three jurisdictions (Ethiopia, Greece and Kenya) and started practising in Kenya in 1979, at a time when women lawyers were few and far apart and when very few had reached partner level. She is currently Senior Partner of Walker Kontos.

Alexandra holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Addis Ababa University (a country which follows the civil law system) and a Master of Laws Degree from University College London at which time she had to move from the civil law to the common law system, a difficult transition for those who know both systems.   Alexandra is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, as well as a seasoned Company Secretary. Over the years she has been involved in various capacities in legal drafting and law reform and is a very keen legal instructor, losing no opportunity to impart her knowledge to younger members of the profession.

She specialises in corporate and commercial work with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions including transnational acquisitions, banking and corporate finance. She has led the legal teams involved in the establishment of joint ventures, as well as in mergers, acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructuring, and management buy-outs. She has also variously advised on all kinds of banking and financial transactions such as project finance, loan syndication and securitisation and structured and trade finance.  She has represented most of the Kenyan Banks and their overseas branches as well as many international finance organisations including IFC, FMO, Proparco, EIB and various other international lenders in loan transactions some amounting to millions of dollars or euros. She is very well known and highly respected in the legal profession.

Equally importantly Alexandra is a very experienced property lawyer, her forte being due diligence on titles, an area of the law which requires high acumen by reason of the recent changes in land registration in Kenya. She has consequently acted in various high end property deals involving hundreds of units in several areas in Nairobi and its environs.

On a different note and on something non-legal, Alexandra speaks (and reads and writes) six languages and is Senior Judge of the Kenya Orchid Society which she has led with fervor for the past thirty years.