Commercial and Corporate Law
We understand that contractual relationships are part and parcel of our client’s business. We strive to ensure that our clients’ commercial and non-commercial activities are adequately protected. We have the resources to take on full range of our clients’ commercial and corporate activities and provide practical and professional advice on all contractual issues.
The legal services under this branch of law include;
- Drafting joint venture, assignment, and debenture agreements.
- Agency, Distribution, and dealership agreements.
- Drafting share sale agreements.
- Machinery manufacture, maintenance, and supply agreements.
- Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing agreements.
- Supply of Services contracts.
- Complex Commercial Contract Disputes
- Corporate Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
- Commercial contract negotiation, drafting, and review
- Entity dissolution disputes
- Corporate deadlocks
- Operating agreement disputes
- Corporate restructuring or purchase disputes
- the joint venture, franchising, and licensing agreements,
- Fraudulent transfers and piercing-the-corporate-veil issues
- Hire purchase agreements and Purchase of assets contracts.
- Mediating and negotiating commercial transactions.
- Litigation on commercial transactions.
Banking and Finance Law
Our team has extensive experience in the inherent and convoluted nature of corporate finance which demands for innovative and diligent advice prior to any commitments. Angualia Busiku & Co. Advocates is effectively able to undertake such transactions with its rich experience in structuring innovative and pragmatic financing strategies across a range of asset classes and financing sources to help clients whether creditor, borrowers, or other third-party beneficiaries to achieve their goals.
Our banking and finance team has been retained by creditors like some leading microfinance companies and money lender companies. Our role as external counsel for such institutions includes conducting due diligence on the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers, registering and charging all forms of debt securities notably real estate, movable collateral, cash receivables, equity, and individual guarantees, draft the notable financing agreements. We devise all types of financing arrangements to help clients manage their operations and grow their businesses.
Our finance team has been trusted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the World Bank since 2014 to contribute in Doing Business Report Uganda. A report that is published annually to establish the current status, regulatory environment, and tax regime affecting doing business in Uganda.
Energy, Oil, and Gas law
Our law firm appreciates that energy is a very crucial and sensitive resource and issues surrounding it must be responded to urgently as any delay can greatly affect our client. We make it our business to keep up to date with national and international developments concerning the area of practice so as to provide our clients with services based on informed positions.
The services under this area of practice include;
- Due diligence and deal structuring.
- Drafting and negotiating documents for acquisition and financing contracts.
- Negotiating power purchase and power sale agreements.
- Applications and advocacy for permits and licenses.
- Drafting and negotiating energy, oil and related agreements.
- Preparing agreements for the sale and purchase of fuel, power purchase agreements,
- Preparing legal opinions on energy, oil and gas law, licences and agreements.
- Advise clients on a wide range of alternative energy projects, including wind, solar.
Non-Governmental Organisations Law
We advise NGOs on; registration, regulatory compliance, employment law, corporate immigration, renewal of permits to operate as NGOs in Uganda for both local, regional, and foreign NGOs, completing statutory filings with either National Bureau of NGOs or the registrar of companies, and due diligence among others.
Due diligence investigations
We conduct due diligence and checks on compliance with various statutory requirements and provide explanation and opinions on the implications of the transactions that the client intends to get involved in. The areas include; commercial transactions, immigration, investment, real estate, not for profit, verification of documents of visa applicants among others.
