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Arbitration

  • Overview
  • Experience

Our team in Uganda has a strong track record of acting for leading multinational corporations and local entities in domestic and international arbitration. 

Our arbitration practice combines extensive regional and global resources with DLA Piper Africa and the global DLA Piper International Arbitration practice. 

We advise a broad range of clients, including foreign investors, government and government entities, financial institutions and project sponsors. In addition to a fully established commercial arbitration practice, we offer investors advice on a range of substantive investment protections available under Ugandan law as well as under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. 

We are part of a global team of seasoned investment arbitration practitioners.

Experience has included advising:

  • Aegis Media South Africa Proprietary, a subsidiary of Dentsu Aegis Network Limited, in a high value contractual dispute involving non-payment of fees under an affiliation Agreement in Uganda seated LCIA arbitration proceedings.
  • Vivo Energy in ad hoc arbitral proceedings in a high value contractual dispute concerning the supply of liquified petroleum gas.
  • Cotecna Inspection Services SA in a multimillion dollar London seated LCIA arbitration arising out of a Collateral Management Contract.
  • Uganda National Roads Authority in arbitration proceedings under the International Chamber of Commerce, for a USD48 million breach of contract claim against a roads contractor.
  • Rift Valley Railways, the exclusive concessionaire for the Kenya-Uganda Railways, in ad hoc arbitral proceedings to defend a USD4.2 million breach of contract levied by a contractor.
  • New Forests Company in a major New York seated AAA arbitration arising out of a significant supply contract dispute.
  • Xpectrade Limited in a multibillion-USD contract dispute against the Uganda Investment Authority.
  • Church Commissioners Holdings (the Anglican Church of Uganda) in arbitration and pre-arbitral proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act for provisional measures arising out of a multibillion-UGX construction dispute.