Promoting national and cross border trade and attracting investment are the keys to unlocking the economic potential of Uganda and the East African region. Key sectors including agriculture, transport and infrastructure, energy, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, banking and finance, technology, tourism and hospitality, sports and culture and professional services continue to seek capital and technical and managerial skills. 

Our team of dedicated team of highly regarded experts will walk with you through the complex multi-lateral and bilateral treaty rules and national legislation and regulations which govern cross-border trade and investment in the region covering, among others: 

• Custom, tariff and non-tariff barriers 
• Public procurement 
• Export and import regulations, licensing and permits
• Investment protection 
• Resolution of investment disputes 
• Sanctions regimes 
• Dumping and subsidies 
• Due diligences 
• Commodities and export finance
• Investment licenses 
• Negotiation of bilateral and multilateral trade and investment treaties
• Market entry advisory covering all aspects of business structuring, setting up and regulatory compliance 
• In bound and out bound cross border investment and trade 
• Business expansion into the wider East African region and beyond 
• International and off-shore investments 
• Regional regulations including the East African Community Treaty and the Common Market Protocol, the COMESA, African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), etc 
• Debt management and collection

1. Advising a major player in downstream retailing and distribution market for oil products on setting up in Uganda and Kenya.
2. Representing an investor in a major hotel and hospitality facility in a commercial arbitration for breach of contract.
3. Routinely advising foreign investors on market entry strategies and regulation, business structuring and processing investment licensing.
4. Representing a coalition of East African citizens before the East African Court of Justice in a reference asserting breach by the Ugandan government of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community and the Common Market Protocol.  
5. Routinely handle all the trade related challenges for Uganda’s leading brewer and distributor of beer. 
6. Advising an impact agriculture investor on the availability and viability of financing options. 
7. Advised Uganda’s sole bentonite mining and processing company on market entry and all regulatory compliance issues in setting up operations in Uganda and processing bentonite exploitation and production licenses. Bentonite is a key mineral used in oil drilling, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics production.