Practise Areas
  • Commercial and Corporate Affairs.
  • Land and Property.
  • Civil and Ligitation.
  • Public Law and General.

COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
This Department represents individuals, NGO's, Corporate and Public clients both domestic and foreign in the planning, negotiation and execution of a full range of investment, commercial and corporate transactions as well as immigration matters and employment contracts. The firm has well trained and specialised lawyers in the field of local and transnational investment, banking law, trade law, intellectual property, negotiation, corporate practice and other critical areas of the business world.

The firm has played an active role in the privatization of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Uganda and corporate audit and restructuring. We have worked as consultants to the Privatisation Unit on several divestitures and also represented several bidders for public enterprises many of whom have been successful. We have also been involved in large loan recovery schemes and litigation for banks and the Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust.


LAND AND PROPERTY DEPARTMENT
This department represents individuals, corporate and public clients in all types of land and property transactions or claims. The largest amount of practice has been transfer conveyancing, leasing and other types of land acquisition. The firm has been heavily involved in several repossession claims by members of the Asian Community expelled in early 1970s during the military Government of Idi Amin in Uganda whose properties were taken over by Government. We have successfully secured the return of several properties to their rightful owners.


CIVIL AND LEGITATION DEPARMENT
This department handles civil matters and claims other than those arising specifically from commercial and corporate transactions or land and property transactions. The department handles claims arising out of negligence, accidents and tort in general, domestic related claims and other civil claims. We represent clients in negotiations, arbitration, mediation and at other alternative dispute resolution fora and ligitation in court.


PUBLIC LAW AND GENERAL DEPARTMENT
The firm of Kwesigabo, Bamwine and Walubiri Advocates has a high reputation in the field of constitutional and public interest litigation and has handled a number of high profile cases in this field particularly, constitutional cases and public administration.

The firm also handles a small number of criminal cases mainly for our corporate clients to ensure that they receive a full range of legal services from a one stop center.

The firm has also held several state briefs and handled some cases pro bono on behalf of clients who could not afford to pay for legal services.

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