Experience
Evidence of judgment under real conditions.
Each entry states the problem, what we did, and — where it can be disclosed — what happened. The emphasis is on judgment and outcome, not on self-congratulation.
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Where a client cannot be named, the matter appears anonymised by sector and role. 1 further mandate is withheld pending written client consent.
Strategic national digital infrastructure
2020–2022
Court-supervised administration of Uganda Telecom Limited
The challenge
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.
Our role
The firm's Founding Partner was appointed by the court as Administrator, with the firm providing end-to-end legal execution across the restructuring, creditor engagement, regulatory interface and disputes workstreams simultaneously.
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
National energy regulator
Reported
Licence-amendment dispute in the electricity sector
The challenge
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.
Our role
Represented the Electricity Regulatory Authority, combining regulatory advocacy with the sector economics underlying the concession.
- Disputes
- Energy
- Regulation
Central bank
Reported
Tax dispute protecting approximately UGX 60 billion
The challenge
A revenue authority assessment against the central bank created material fiscal exposure and raised questions with implications well beyond the assessment itself.
Our role
Led the legal team for the institution through the controversy.
Outcome
Exposure of approximately UGX 60 billion was protected.
- Tax
- Disputes
Global oilfield services contractor
Reported
Tax controversy concerning approximately UGX 22 billion
The challenge
A multinational contractor operating in the oil and gas sector faced a significant assessment turning on cross-border structuring and the treatment of services delivered into the jurisdiction.
Our role
Acted for the contractor through the controversy.
Outcome
A successful outcome was achieved on a matter of approximately UGX 22 billion.
- Tax
- Oil & Gas
State development corporation
Ongoing
Structuring a national industrial and economic development fund
The challenge
A public development institution needed to establish a fund capable of deploying capital into industry at scale, with governance and a regulatory framework able to satisfy both government and external financiers.
Our role
Led support on the conceptualisation, structuring, governance design and regulatory framework for the fund.
- Development Finance
- Government
Energy sector development institution
Ongoing
Working capital and guarantee schemes for World Bank funded facilities
The challenge
Concessional capital had to reach energy sector borrowers through instruments that commercial lenders would accept and that the funder's own compliance requirements would permit.
Our role
Structured the working capital and guarantee schemes and the supporting documentation.
- Development Finance
- Energy
Agro-industrial producer
Reported
US$40m bagasse power plant financing
The challenge
An agro-industrial producer sought to finance a biomass power plant converting a by-product of its core operation into grid-connected generation, requiring both project and corporate financing logic to align.
Our role
Advised on the power and energy financing, including the structuring and security package.
- Project Finance
- Energy
- Agriculture
Hydropower project
Reported
Procurement and PPP framework for a major hydropower project
The challenge
A large hydropower development required a procurement and partnership framework capable of surviving public scrutiny while remaining acceptable to an international EPC contractor and its financiers.
Our role
Advised on the procurement and PPP frameworks underpinning the project.
- Infrastructure
- PPP
- Energy
National transmission company
Reported
UNCITRAL arbitration concerning a consultancy dispute
The challenge
A consultancy engagement on transmission infrastructure broke down into a USD 1.257m claim requiring resolution under international arbitral rules.
Our role
Acted as counsel for the transmission company in the arbitration.
- Arbitration
- Infrastructure
National oil company
Reported
Cross-border litigation strategy in a neighbouring jurisdiction
The challenge
A dispute affecting a national oil company was being litigated across a border, raising the practical question of whether any outcome obtained would be enforceable where the assets actually sat.
Our role
Executed the combined litigation and negotiation strategy across jurisdictions.
- Disputes
- Cross-Border
- Oil & Gas
Financial institutions
Various
Receivership and liquidation litigation for lenders
The challenge
Secured lenders needed to enforce against defaulting borrowers in contested proceedings where recovery depended on whether the security had been properly perfected years earlier.
Our role
Acted for the lenders through receivership and liquidation litigation.
Outcome
Successful outcomes were obtained in enforcement litigation.
- Enforcement
- Insolvency
- Banking
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