Uganda-rooted. Africa-focused.
Legal and strategic advice for African investment and institutional execution.
We bring law, finance, governance and execution together to help enterprises, governments, financiers and infrastructure players move investment and institutional decisions forward.
Our ambition
To be Africa's most trusted legal and strategic partner to enterprises, governments, financiers and infrastructure players and institutions.
Founded
2003
Chambers Global 2026
3 ranked partners
IFLR1000 2026
Ranked firm
Andersen Global
170+ countries
ISO 9001
Certified
Who we serve
Four institutions whose decisions shape Africa's growth.
We do not try to serve everyone. We focus where the consequences of getting it right — or wrong — extend well beyond the client.
Enterprises and Family-Owned Businesses
African and international businesses building, expanding or transforming across the continent.
We structure capital that can move, build contracts that protect delivery, and turn technology and intellectual property into protectable, investable value.
Governments and Public Institutions
Public institutions pursuing development through infrastructure, energy, industrialisation and regulatory reform.
We make public value financeable and defensible, deliver procurement and contracting that withstand scrutiny, and build governance that protects the public interest.
Banks, Financiers and Investors
Institutions deploying capital for development and commercial projects.
We make capital deployable with bankability, enforceability and recovery readiness, hardwiring delivery risk controls into documentation.
Infrastructure and Project Sponsors
Contractors, operators, sponsors and investors building and running critical infrastructure.
We protect schedule, margin and performance with bankable delivery contracts and strengthen payment and remedies pathways.
Our sectors — AIMS
Four sectors that decide whether Africa transforms or merely grows.
Agriculture, Infrastructure, Mining and Supply chain: the productive base of the continent, and where our work is concentrated.
Agriculture & Food Security
Because Africa must feed itself before it feeds the world.
Infrastructure, Utilities & Energy, including Oil & Gas
Because nothing industrialises in the dark.
Mining, Manufacturing & Industry
Because Africa's minerals should leave the continent as products and prosperity, not only as ore.
Supply Chain & Trade
Because a market of over a billion people becomes real only when goods, services and capital actually move.
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African Purpose
Four commitments that shape how we advise, not four slogans.
Each purpose carries named leadership, defined services and an annual record of activity. They are design principles for the work — and we expect to be measured on them.
01
African Family Businesses
Support the ownership, governance, financing and succession arrangements that help enterprises endure beyond a single founder or generation.
Signature output
Capital Readiness Pack + Governance & Succession Architecture
02
African Culture & Heritage
Recognise the value of cultural expression and knowledge, and help rights holders consider intellectual property, contracting, governance and commercialisation responsibly.
Signature output
Legitimacy & Approvals Map + Audit-Ready Governance Pack
03
African Continental Integration
Help businesses and institutions work through the legal requirements of cross-border trade, investment and collaboration. Translate regional ambitions into practical, jurisdiction-specific advice.
Signature output
Cross-Border Structure Pack + Enforcement & Disputes Architecture
04
African Institutional Stewardship
Support clear powers, accountable governance, lawful decisions and implementation. Strong institutions help sustain confidence in markets and the public responsibilities around them.
Signature output
Regulatory Institution Strengthening Programme
Selected experience
Evidence of judgment under real conditions.
Central bank
Reported
Tax dispute protecting approximately UGX 60 billion
A revenue authority assessment against the central bank created material fiscal exposure and raised questions with implications well beyond the assessment itself.
Outcome
Exposure of approximately UGX 60 billion was protected.
- Tax
- Disputes
Electricity Regulatory Authority
Reported
Licence-amendment dispute in the electricity sector
A contested amendment to a major distribution concession put the regulator's authority, and the commercial terms of the country's largest electricity licence, before the courts.
Outcome
Licence amendments clawed back over USD 100 million in excess distribution revenue, and the related USD 100 million claim before the Electricity Disputes Tribunal was resolved by negotiated settlement.
- Disputes
- Energy
- Regulation
Strategic national digital infrastructure
2020–2022
Court-supervised administration of Uganda Telecom Limited
A strategic national telecommunications asset had failed, with creditors including a development finance institution, employees and the state all holding competing claims, and no operating stability from which to negotiate any of them.
Outcome
The business was stabilised and rescued under court supervision, with every material decision recorded so that it remained auditable and defensible after the fact.
- Special Situations
- Restructuring
- Government
Our people
Clients engage institutions. They instruct people.
Ruth SebatindiraSC
Founder & Managing Partner
Technology & Intellectual Property · Trade & Logistics · Tax
When a regulated institution faces a technology or tax question that will be examined by a board, a regulator and an auditor in turn, Ruth is the partner who builds the answer to survive all three.
Kabiito Karamagi
Partner
Insolvency & Business Restructuring
Kabiito is the partner institutions call when a business is failing, creditors are fragmenting and someone has to restore control before value disappears.
Joshua Ogwal
Partner
Finance, Power & Infrastructure
Joshua structures the transactions that decide whether an energy or infrastructure project reaches financial close — and whether it holds together afterwards.
Olivia Kyarimpa Matovu
Partner
Dispute Resolution · Arbitration
Olivia takes the disputes where a regulated sector, a state agency or an infrastructure project has too much at stake to lose — and builds them to be enforceable, not merely arguable.
Rita Birungi Baguma
Partner
Insolvency & Business Restructuring · Banking & Finance
An INSOL International Fellow whose cross-border insolvency practice runs from Kampala through Nairobi, Lagos, London and the Cayman Islands.
Racheal Arinaitwe
Partner
Corporate Governance · Banking & Finance
Racheal builds the governance and security documentation that lets a board demonstrate control and a lender demonstrate recourse.
Martin Kakuru
Partner
Litigation · Employment
Fifteen years before Uganda's superior courts and specialised tribunals, with the employment and public law practice institutions turn to when a dispute has become a governance problem.
Insights
Our thinking, published here first.
Analysis of the developments that matter to our clients, signed by the partner who advises on them.
Regulatory
Data sovereignty for African regulators
The AU Data Policy Framework, localisation and cross-border data flows — a continental lens on a question usually argued nationally.
Ligomarc Technology Group ·
Complex institution. Consequential decision. Speak with a Ligomarc partner.
Tell us the nature of the matter and we will route it to the partner accountable for that work.