Uganda is experiencing growing positive attitudes towards international arbitration as an established mechanism for resolving disputes.
Allan Waniala specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters in areas of law such as banking and financial services, commercial contracts, construction, negligence and product liability, employment, transport, insurance, real estate and regulatory affairs. Allan also has experience in arbitration under both domestic and international arbitration frameworks.
Experience has included:
- Successfully represented a leading Telecommunication in a breach of contract / regulatory compliance suit with an exposure of UGX. 11,000,000,000
- Successfully represented a statutory provident fund in an action seeking to recover statutory contribution of over UGX.14,000,000,000.
- Successfully represented a financial institution in an action for breach of banker customer relationship in a mobile banking transaction.
- Represented a client in an action seeking to restrain a competitor from infringing its trademark and copyright.
- Successfully defended a financial institution in a multi-billion-shilling suit seeking to challenge the decision to pay out a call on performance and advance payment guarantees.
- Successfully represented Stanbic Bank in Arbitral proceedings for breach of banker-customer contract.
- Successfully represented Africell Uganda Limited in proceedings to set aside an Arbitral Award arising from a multibillion-shilling ad hoc arbitration applying the Arbitration and Conciliation Act.
- Currently representing Hima Cement Limited in an UNCITRAL arbitration proceeding in a logistics dispute.
- Contributed to an article published in chambers and partners titled: The Law Practice, Trends and Developments in Uganda
Professional Qualifications
- Advocate admitted to the High Court of Uganda.
Education
- Queen Mary University of London: Master of Laws (Comparative and International Dispute Resolution) (in progress).
- Makerere University: Bachelor of Laws.
- Law Development Centre: Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (bar qualification).
Memberships
- Member of the East African Law Society.
- Member of the Uganda Law Society.