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Jemimah Jehopio is a commercial lawyer whose core practice area is corporate and commercial law, and legal and regulatory compliance. Jemimah advises corporate and financial entities on a wide range of legal, regulatory and transactional matters, working with in-house counsel, within the business operation and as local counsel.

Experience has included advising:

  • British Broadcasting Corporation on the regulatory classification of its bureau’s operations in Uganda.
  • Master Card Foundation on licensing and regulatory issues relating to offshore settlement transactions.
  • Loop DFS on the legal and regulatory issues relating to its application for licenses as a payment system operator, payment service provider and issuer of payment instruments.
  • Vivo Energy Uganda on a comprehensive legal and regulatory compliance review of its business operations, including developing a dynamic compliance dashboard.
  • MTN Mobile Money, a payment system operator and a payment service provider, on the applicable regulatory corporate governance requirements.
  • Catholic Relief Services on the legal, regulatory and tax implications of cross-border lending to Ugandan businesses.
  • African Development Bank on a US$ 2 million corporate financing lending aimed at making fertilisers available and affordable for Ugandan farmers.
  • Stanbic Bank Uganda on the legal efficacy and enforceability of proposed digitisation of the lending process and collateral documentation.
  • Vivo Energy Uganda as in-house counsel on a wide range of legal, regulatory and transactional matters.

Professional Qualifications

  • Called to the Ugandan Bar

Education

  • Law Development Centre, Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
  • Uganda Christian University, LLB 
  • Makerere University Kampala, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry. 

Memberships

  • East African Law Society.
  • Uganda Law Society.