In each of our areas of practice, our lawyers focus on providing timely, practical and high quality advice to each of our clients with the aim of assisting each of our clients achieve their commercial objectives in a cost effective and efficient manner. Because we have developed a specialty in each of our areas of practice, our Firm is quickly becoming the consistent choice for the discerning clients and clients with unusually challenging transactions.
Mergers & Acquisitions | Banking & Finance | Corporate & Commercial | Securities & Capital Markets | Property & Real Estate | Tax Law | Intellectual Property | Insurance
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Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice is establishing itself as one of the leaders in mergers and acquisitions in Uganda. Our Firm boasts of well trained, experienced, dynamic and committed lawyers who have been involved in some of the more challenging and complex M&A transactions. We advise clients on a broad range of transactions including joint ventures, asset and business acquisitions as well as disposals, corporate re-organisations, privatizations and mergers, leverage buyouts, capital restructuring and private equity investments.
BANKING & FINANCE
Our lawyers understand the requirements and expectations of both sides of financing deals. We offer thoughtful and comprehensive legal advice to a broad range of domestic and international banks and other financial institutions, as well as their clients on a wide variety of financial instruments domestic and cross-border transactions.
We handle a variety of financing and funding transactions including loan origination work, domestic and cross-border secured and unsecured bilateral and syndicated loans, security arrangements, registration and enforcement of loans and security in Uganda, loan restructurings and refinancings as well as general banking transactions and facilities.
We also advise our clients on the full spectrum of banking laws and regulations including licensing, regulatory capital and conduct of business requirements.
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
Our corporate and commercial practice is broad-based and comprehensive. It is reflective of the diversity of our clientele, as well as the industries that they operate in. We are actively involved in domestic and cross-border transactions, representing listed companies, multinational corporations, government linked corporations, private firms and individuals. Our lawyers are well versed with the regulatory and compliance requirements for setting up business operations in Uganda, including immigration and employment related matters.
We regularly advise leading international investment banks on the legal and regulatory environment affecting derivatives products in Uganda. We have advised clients on products including futures and ISDA documentation-based transactions, swaps and repos as well as credit derivatives.
We also provide company administration services to both private and public listed companies for whom we act as company secretary and/or provide corporate secretarial support. Our corporate secretarial services also include advising on corporate governance issues and compliance with domestic listing requirements and registering businesses.
SECURITIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS
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We are dedicated to helping businesses find and secure the money they need to operate and grow. We advise and represent clients in some of the most sophisticated and innovative capital-raising transactions including initial public offerings and listings on the Uganda Securities Exchange, rights issues, bonus issues and bond issues, and advise our listed clients on their continuing Uganda Securities Exchange listing requirements.
Our wealth of knowledge, experience and understanding of the regulatory frameworks in Uganda coupled with our creativity, team approach and dedication to our clients, has made OS Kagere a highly regarded firm in the field of capital markets in Uganda.
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PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE
We represent domestic and international investors in a broad range of real estate transactions involving commercial, industrial, residential and service apartment projects in Uganda. We represent and advise clients in connection with the acquisition and disposal of major commercial and residential developments, office complexes, as well as sites for large scale redevelopment. As part of our institutional real estate practice, we advise on the acquisition and sale of condominium property and mortgage financing. Our Firm has considerable specialist experience in providing comprehensive and innovative advice to property investors and developers on all regulatory requirements, corporate structuring, planning regulations, project and management agreements, acquisition, development, funding and divestment activities.
TAX LAW
Our tax practice is a key component of our transaction advisory practice and provides tax advice that is integrated with legal and regulatory issues that affect our clients in their complex business transactions including mergers, acquisitions, asset disposals, corporate spin offs, joint ventures and restructuring as well as daily operations. Our experience enables us to create structures that are tax efficient and meet our client’s business objectives.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Our Firm advises on a wide spectrum of intellectual property (IP) matters across a broad section of sectors to both domestic and foreign clients. Our practice handles registration of trademarks, patents and designs in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo and South Sudan through a network of associate agent firms. We advise our clients on protection and commercial exploitation of their IP rights, on assignment of intellectual property agreements and on licensing and franchising arrangements. Our IP practice is a key component of our transaction advisory practice. We therefore routinely undertake due diligence and a review of related commercial agreements.
INSURANCE
We advise our clients on insurance laws and regulations including licensing, regulatory capital and conduct of business requirements. Our specialist knowledge and commitment has ensured that our Firm provides the highest standards of service to our clients