CR. Amanya Advocates guides local and foreign clients through the maze of registering and establishing legal entities — companies, multinationals, non-governmental organisations and trusts — and acts as company secretariat and representative office for several local and foreign firms. The practice spans the full transactional cycle: incorporation and shareholder agreements, corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, secondary financing and eventual winding up, together with the commercial contracts that carry each transaction through.
We advise some of the largest international companies operating in Uganda’s energy, mining and infrastructure sectors. On one side sit exploration and exploitation licences, mining leases, concession agreements and the assignment of existing rights; on the other, procurement, public tender and FIDIC-governed construction contracts for the road, rail and aviation programme. Environmental Impact Assessments, NEMA compliance and Petroleum Authority of Uganda registrations run alongside both.
The firm also manages intellectual property portfolios end to end, having registered dozens of trademarks for chemical, hospitality and consumer-goods clients. Where a brand is copied or diluted we prosecute anti-counterfeit and passing-off actions, coordinating cross-border enforcement through the PraeLegal and W-Akili Africa networks.
What we handle
- Incorporation of companies, NGOs, foundations and trusts
- Company secretarial services and board support
- Corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions
- Shareholder, joint-venture and franchise agreements
- Contract drafting, negotiation and enforcement
- Tax structuring and regulatory compliance
- Anti-money-laundering and Financial Intelligence Authority compliance
- Exploration and exploitation licences, mining leases and concessions
- Assignment of existing rights, and brokerage of licence sale and purchase
- Environmental Impact Assessments, NEMA and Petroleum Authority compliance
- Procurement law, public-tender procedure and bid preparation
- Construction contracts and FIDIC Conditions of Contract advisory
- Land acquisition, owner compensation and importation of plant
- Project financing, security documentation and construction claims
- Trademark, copyright and patent registration, renewal and enforcement
- IP licensing, assignment, portfolio audits and anti-counterfeit actions
- Corporate governance and board advisory
- Winding up, receivership and insolvency
The instruction differs; the standard does not. Every engagement is scoped in writing and led by an advocate — and you will always get an honest and realistic evaluation of your commercial position before any work begins.