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Commercial Litigation

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Our commercial litigation practice in Uganda covers banking and financial law, construction, tax, commercial agreements, insurance, real estate, employment, regulatory affairs, product liability, insolvency and debt recovery and procurement, among others. 

We possess the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political and cultural context to legal issues and develop competitive case strategies.

Experience has included advising:

  • British American Tobacco in prosecuting a landmark economic rights constitutional petition to challenge the Tobacco Control Act 2015 before the Constitutional Court.
  • Standard Chartered Bank Uganda before the First Instance and Appellate Divisions of the East African Court of Justice in a USD12 million dispute founded upon a claim on a guarantee issued by the bank.
  • National Social Security Fund in its challenge of a USD20 million arbitral award before the Supreme Court.
  • Absa Bank in defending a complex and high-value claim for fraud and breach of duty in relation to the receivership of a borrower.
  • Stanbic Bank in proceedings before the Court of Appeal which examined the validity of loan facilities granted to an undeclared illiterate.
  • Total E&P, Tullow Operations and CNOOC Uganda in a landmark and complex lawsuit that challenges the validity and legality of exploration and production licences issued to the oil companies, including a challenge of the state’s constitutional trustee ownership of mineral resources.
  • UAP-Old Mutual in appellate proceedings to defend a disputed USD3.6 million claim (on account of underlying fraud between the account party and beneficiary) levied by the beneficiary of a performance guarantee.
  • UAP-Old Mutual against a USD2.1 million indemnity claim by the insured following a suspicious fire outbreak.
  • Hima Cement Uganda in appellate proceedings before the Court of Appeal in a dispute over the proprietary rights to a limestone mining area valued at USD120 million.
  • Pride Microfinance, Uganda’s leading micro-finance deposit-taking institution, in appellate proceedings to defend a landmark USD7 million claim for wrongful appropriation of shares.