MMAKS Advocates

MMAKS Advocates is a leading full service law firm in Kampala with a longstanding reputation of quality and excellence. It is one of the largest firms in Uganda, with a total of 24 proficiently trained lawyers and a total support staff complement of 35. The firm combines a well-established litigation practice and commercial transactional practice. MMAKS is a member of Africa Legal Network, a leading independent alliance of top tier African law firms. MMAKS is also a member of the Employment Law Alliance and First Law International. Please visit www.mmaks.co.ug

• Banking
• Capital Markets
• Corporate and Commercial
• M&A
• Private Equity
• Project Finance
• PPP/PFI
• Financial Services Regulatory 
• Financial Restructuring
• Real Estate
• Structured Finance / Securitisation
• Competition
• Project Development
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Commercial Litigation

Chambers Global - Band 1 Firm

IFLR1000 - Tier 1 Firm

Litigation: Timothy Masembe Kanyerezi  (masembe@ug.africalegalnetwork.com)

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Moses Jurua Adriko (mja@ug.africalegalnetwork.com)

Corporate Commercial: Apollo Makubuya (makubuya@ug.africalegalnetwork.com) and Fiona N. Magona (magona@ug.africalegalnetwork.com)

Property, Banking and Finance: Shellomith Irungu (irungu@ug.africalegalnetwork.com)

Intellectual Property : Mathias Ssekatawa (ssekatawa@ug.africalegalnetwork.com)

Recent Transactional highlights:

• Advising the Government of Uganda in connection with the development of the first ever oil refinery project in Uganda;
• Advising FMO and PROPARCO on a financing of USD 40 million to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda; and
• Successfully acting for Barclays Bank of Uganda Limited in a Supreme Court appeal in which the appellant was ordered to pay the bank  USD 20 million.

• Telecommunications
• Consumer Goods and Services
• Real Estate
• Gaming
• Agriculture
• Banking
• Energy
• Government and Public Policy
• Insurance
• Oil and Gas
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Education
• Tech and Telecoms 
• Mining 
• Natural Resources
• Aviation
• Industrials
• Investment management