Uganda

Firm overview

TASLAF provides blended legal and tax services to the most innovative and impactful organizations operating in Africa. We are a highly specialist, innovative and experienced team of lawyers and consultants in Africa. We are consulted on significant transactions in each of our practice areas where we combine an understanding of legal and regulatory compliance in Uganda and experience in complex international transactions.

Firm overview

Ortus Advocates is a full-service corporate and commercial law firm in Uganda. The firm is part of the Ortus Africa brand, a professional services firm bringing together resources with a wealth of experience and knowledge in law, tax and business advisory services. 

Our key practice areas include corporate, mergers & acquisitions, banking and finance, capital markets, project finance, project development, oil & gas, tax, and business rescue, restructuring & insolvency. Our lawyers have a unique understanding of Uganda’s political, economic, regulatory, and legal environment.  With a team of over 20 lawyers we confidently guide both local and international clients across a range of industry sectors in execution of complex and innovative transactions and disputes.

The firm also boasts of a dedicated China practice bolstered by our alliance with the Yingke Law which focuses largely on matters born of the commercial expansion of those countries’ interests in Africa.

We are very active in the fintech and innovative ecosystem of Uganda. Through our partnership with the Innovation Village, Ortus Advocates is at the forefront of the innovation and acceleration industry in Uganda.

Firm overview

Katende, Ssempebwa & Co. Advocates (KATS), founded in 1969, celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2019. It is by far the largest law firm in Uganda with 27 lawyers and the firm dedicates all its considerable and combined manpower and technology resources to serving its clients. Majority of the KATS lawyers obtained their legal training in Uganda, the UK and the USA and they therefore command a wealth of knowledge and experience in both international and local contexts. This enables them to offer unique and seamless advice to clients, they impose rigorous reporting requirements on themselves and take great care to be responsive to clients’ inquiries and requirements to ensure overall satisfaction.

Firm overview

KTA is a member of Amani IP Network, an association of Intellectual Property firms in the region. KTA is best known for its boutique service offering in Banking & Finance, Technology, Media, Telecommunications, Intellectual Property, Project Finance & Construction Law.

KTA advises and represents several local & multinational entities, financial institutions, Governments and regional bodies on issues of policy, regulation, compliance and dispute resolution. Visit us www.ktaadvocates.com

KTA also hosts annual conferences and trainings on technology & Intellectual Property like the Copyright Conference and the Annual Symposium on Technology & Innovation. More at www.symposium-iptech.com