Lex Uganda Advocates & Solicitors: Uganda
Overview
Lex Uganda Advocates & Solicitors is a premier corporate and commercial law firm situated in the city of Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. Founded in 1996 as Odere & Nalyanya Advocates and later rebranded as Lex Uganda Advocates & Solicitors in 2003, the firm has three partners and seven associates most of whom received their legal training in leading British Universities.
Lex Uganda Advocates & Solicitors is ranked (locally and internationally) as one of the leading and respected law firms in Uganda. The firm has been listed and recommended as a law firm of choice by International Financial Law Review (www.iflr1000.com), a guide to the world’s leading financial law firms consecutively for over 8 years. Lex Uganda has over the years executed instructions from international and local clients on a broad range of business law and related areas.
The firm advises publicly and privately owned companies investing in Uganda, major international investment and commercial banks, securities firms, institutional investors, venture capital funds, industrial, utilities, service, distribution and retail companies, telecommunication companies, hospitality, media firms, real estate developers, diplomatic missions, non profit organizations and international financial and development institutions. The firm also advises the Uganda Government on privatization and divestiture, transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters
The commitment to provision of excellent legal services is the hallmak of Lex Uganda and the firm’s practice is characterized by a high standard of professionalism, quality, integrity, expedition and confidentiality.
Practice areas
- Agency & distributorship
- Banking & finance
- Bankruptcy and insolvency
- Capital Markets
- Commercial litigation
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance & restructuring
- Energy law
- Environmental law
- Franchising
- Information technology law
- Insurance
- Intellectual property law
- International Arbitration and mediation
- International business transactions
- International finance
- International trade law
- Investment law
- Joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions
- Media & entertainment law
- Mining and natural resource exploitation
- Project finance
- Real property law & conveyance
- Receiverships, liquidation and amalgamations
- Secured lending
- Taxation
- Telecommunications law