Damalie is the founding and managing partner of the firm and has a wealth of experience and knowledge. She is an advocate of the High Court of Uganda and all Courts subordinate thereto with over 10 years of experience.
She is also a Chartered secretary with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK and a trained legal auditor with Train with Clarity; TCA, Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree and Master of Laws [1] from Makerere University and a Postgraduate
Prior to starting the firm Damalie worked with Muwema and Co. Advocates one of the biggest firms in Uganda since 2011 where she specialized in the areas of corporate law and advisory, intellectual property law, tax law and advisory and employment law. She ably represented clients in all these areas in negotiations, mediations, trials, courts of law and other forums. Damalie also sits on several boards of companies as a Director or Secretary where she renders quality and sound corporate advisory services.
An ardent intellectual property practitioner, Damalie has assisted many innovators and businesses to enforce their intellectual property rights through registration, oppositions, and litigation both at the Uganda Registration Services Bureau and in the courts of law. Damalie has also facilitated trainings on intellectual property at the National Agricultural Research Organization and done several trainings and attended workshops facilitated by WIPO and ARIPO, UIRI, URSB, UNSCT etc. Damalie is also an enlisted blogger for the African Legal Institute through the Uganda Legal Information Institute the leading online legal information database in Uganda[wwwlulii.org] for which she frequently writes on national matters of the law.
Damalie is a member of the Uganda Law Society, Uganda Law Society Female Lawyers Committee, East Africa Law Society, FIDA, Business Networking International- Integrity Chapter and a member of the Intellectual Property Users Forum of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau. Damalie also runs a women empowerment organization called The Awakened Woman.
On a personal note, Damalie is a mother of two beautiful girls and a wife to one. She is also an ardent reader and has practised veganism since November 2019. She loves to cook and host in her free time
