Competition & M&A
Uganda's Competition Act, 2024 and the new shape of merger control
What the new regime means for dominance, transaction structuring and market exits in regulated and digital markets — and where it interacts with EAC merger review.
Ligomarc Competition Group
· 7 min read
Uganda's competition regime has moved from a sectoral patchwork to a general framework. For transaction planning, the significant change is not the prohibition of dominance abuse — that concept was already familiar to regulated sectors — but the arrival of a general merger control expectation applying across the economy.
Two questions now arise on every deal that did not arise before: whether the transaction requires notification, and whether the theory of harm a regulator might construct is one the parties have anticipated in their own documents.
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