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Public Private Partnerships

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Our lawyers in Uganda have experience regarding the PPP space, delivering sound and innovative solutions to clients on all aspects of projects, from their procurement and financing, including secondary market acquisitions and subsequent refinancing, through variations and operational issues. 

We advise on every legal aspect from procurement strategy, tax structuring, contractual documentation and risk allocation to finance structuring.

Experience has included advising:

  • National Social Security Fund (as the private counterparty) for the development of a USD222 million government campus on a public-private partnership basis (build, own and transfer) with the Government of Uganda.
  • Government of Uganda, represented by the Privatization and Utility Sector Reform Unit of the Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development, on a public-private partnership project where the Government of Uganda granted a concession over Kilembe Mines, Uganda’s sole copper smelting plant, and Kasese Cobalt Company Limited, Uganda’s sole producer of high-grade cobalt.
  • Sinohydro Corporation, the EPC contractor, on its procurement to construct the USD2.2 billion 600 MW Karuma hydro power dam, including advising the client on parallel contracting arrangements with the Government of Uganda and concessional loan financing from the Export-Import Bank of China.
  • China Harbour Engineering Company, the EPC contractor, on the special-case procurement to construct the USD3.2 billion standard gauge railways, which is a project conducted under a bilateral arrangement between the Heads of State of Northern Corridor Integration Project and the People’s Republic of China.
  • Government of Uganda, represented by the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Development and Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited, on the proposed development of the 5.5 MW Nyagak III and 44.7 MW Muzizi hydro-power projects.
  • Total E&P (Uganda) B.V, Tullow Operations and CNOOC Uganda on the performance of a detail legal feasibility study for the proposed construction of an export pipeline, from the Albertine Graben to the East African coast
  • Aggreko Power Projects International on its USD174 million emergency thermal power supply concession with the Government of Uganda.
  • Band 1 – General Business Law (Chambers & Partners 2019)
  • Tier 1 – Financial and Corporate (IFLR1000 2019)