OUR CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL PROFILE

Our corporate and commercial department is headed by a well experienced legal partner, who also acts as legal counsel and sits on the board of various private entities and leading social organisations. He is supported by a team with diverse qualifications and experiences in legal advisory, tax, finance and accounting to provide both company secretarial and transactional advisory services, to our clients.

Under our corporate, regulatory and compliance services, our firm is able to offer full incorporation or business formation and set-up services to our clients. We combine any advice at this crucial set-up stage with guided and expert advice on the most appropriate vehicle and structure for different types of businesses, with different goals.   We can guide and support you through the A-Z of setting up your business and to get you up and running smoothly and efficiently from a regulatory and compliance perspective, allowing you to focus on developing and growing your business.

We also offer various secretarial services, including filing annual corporate returns, acting as company secretary, filing board resolutions, taking minutes, keeping corporate records and acting as your office address in Uganda.  In addition, our corporate department can advise on various corporate entities, transfer of shares, internal corporate governance and organisation design and also negotiate and draft any contracts or agreements required by our clients.

Our commercial practice also advises on various types of transactions in various sectors. These are:
banking and finance, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, land and real estate, telecommunications, mortgage financing, asset transfer, insurance, employment, labor, intellectual property and family related matters.  

We capably provide advice to routine and regular corporate and commercial legal questions as well as ably advice in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, within the region or across the continent. Our clientele are both individuals, international business entities and groupings and also African based business entities and individuals.

WHAT WE OFFER

Our team is uniquely experienced and has diverse extra training and qualities of a finance and tax nature. We ensure that our legal solutions are structured to meet commercial as well as legal and tax requirements.   Our Tax department is on hand to assist in any tax related matters, which may come up; while our Arbitration, Litigation and Dispute resolution department is on hand to advise on dispute resolution options in major transactions.

We pride ourselves in being flexible and understanding and catering to each of our client’s unique needs. Our team’s financial training helps us adopt a business and commercially astute approach to all our proposed solutions to our client’s problems.