Corporate/Commercial

The Firm is recognised as one of Uganda’s leading corporate and finance practices, with a strong reputation across corporate, M&A, projects, energy, capital markets, and banking and finance. It is particularly well known for its work on complex and innovative transactions, including sovereign financings and capital markets structures.

Recent high value transactions and disputes work stream include:

• • Standard Chartered Bank PLC on a Euro 258,9000,000 EKN (Swedish Export Credit Agency) backed term loan facility and a tied commercial term loan facility for the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in relation to the construction and upgrade of 72.7km of tourism roads in the south of the country.
  • Bank Mendes Gans NV on the regulatory aspects pertinent to the expansion and toll out of their cash pooling products portfolio in Uganda.
  • New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited in a first of a kind issuance preference share issuance by a listed company, which resulted in a UGX 25,000,000,000 billion increase in share capital.
  • Métier Capital Growth Fund III MU Investments on a transaction involving the advancement of USD 32,500,000 to a Mauritian company with operating subsidiaries in East Africa
  • DFI Foods Sourcing and DFI International in a EUR 6 million cross-border commercial dispute arising from alleged breaches of long-standing joint business arrangements with a Ugandan counterparty.