The High Court (Commercial Division), sitting at Kampala, has today, 20th February 2026, ordered M/S Muwema & Co. Advocates to pay USD 372,300 in rent arrears and mesne profits, UGX…
Indian-Swiss entrepreneur Vasundhara Oswal has filed a human rights petition at the High Court of Uganda against several high-ranking security and prosecution officials, accusing them of orchestrating her arbitrary arrest,...
When we finally confirmed a date, I arrived at Meritas Advocates’ offices at UEDCL Towers on one of those uncertain December afternoons when time itself seems suspended. The space radiated…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Justice Flavian Zeija as the new Chief Justice of the Republic of Uganda, elevating a seasoned jurist, academic and administrator to the country’s highest…
The Commercial Division of the High Court of Uganda has dismissed a USD 400,000 shareholder loan recovery suit filed by businessman and lawyer Charles Odere, ruling that the matter must…
When mega-deals happen, the most visible winners are usually the shareholders who are selling. But in transactions of this scale, there is always a second, less visible layer of immediate beneficiaries: the financial advisers, lawyers and bankers whose expertise transforms headline numbers into a legally executable reality. That reality is now playing out in the USD 2.3 billion acquisition of a 65 percent controlling stake in East African Breweries Plc (EABL) by Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings from Diageo Plc, a transaction that has been confirmed as the largest public mergers and acquisitions deal in East Africa and one of the…
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Miriam Ekirapa Musaali, a distinguished corporate lawyer, governance expert, and Director of Legal and Board Affairs at the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Uganda, has passed on. She has reportedly succumbed to cancer in Nairobi, where she had gone to seek medical care, our medical sources say. Musaali was widely respected as one of Uganda’s finest minds in corporate finance law, capital markets regulation, and institutional governance. Over nearly two decades, she built a formidable career defined by integrity, intellectual depth, and an unwavering commitment to strengthening Uganda’s financial markets. A Cambridge-trained lawyer who earned her Master of Laws (LL.M) in…
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The past five years have not gone particularly well for Uganda’s billionaire class. Once the undisputed symbols of local enterprise and ambition, several of the country’s most prominent businessmen have found themselves entangled in complex financial and legal battles — most of them involving commercial banks and cross-border lenders. Among them, Hamis Kiggundu, the property and retail magnate behind Ham Enterprises, waged one of Uganda’s most closely watched banking disputes. His companies owed USD 4,014,444 to Diamond Trust Bank Uganda and USD 6,974,600 to Diamond Trust Bank Kenya — a combined USD 10.99 million (approximately UGX 40 billion) in credit…
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The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision ordering Imperial Royale Hotel, one of Kampala’s flagship luxury hotels, to refund government $1.46 million (about UGX 5.05 billion) and pay UGX 800 million in general damages, for what judges described as a fundamental breach of contract tied to preparations for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). In a unanimous ruling delivered on November 4, 2025, justices Moses Kazibwe Kawumi, Irene Mulyagonja, and Oscar John Kihika dismissed the hotel’s appeal in its entirety, bringing to a close one of the most enduring and controversial legal battles from Uganda’s…
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Concierge Group Ltd (TMCG)—the company behind Rocket Health—seeking temporary injunctions against its co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Davis Musinguzi Musiimenta. TMCG had asked the court to restrain Dr. Musinguzi from acting or holding himself out as a director of the company and from intermeddling in its management and affairs. The company also sought a second injunction compelling him to immediately hand over access to its digital systems—including Google Workspace, Amazon Web Services (AWS), social media management tools, and other cloud-based platforms—pending determination of the main suit. The application, filed as Miscellaneous Application No. 1408 of 2025, arose out…
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Multiple properties in Kampala, Wakiso, and Lira will be sold unless former Kibanda County MP and proprietor of Otada Bus Services, Sam Amooti Otada, pays his loan obligations to an…
The Supreme Court has handed businessman Patrick Bitature a much-needed pause in his long and bruising legal fight with South African investment firm Vantage Mezzanine Fund II Partnership. In a ruling delivered on October 2, 2025, Justice Elizabeth Musoke temporarily stopped Vantage from moving to seize Bitature’s assets over a disputed USD 10 million loan. This decision does not end the case. Instead, it buys time for one of Uganda’s most prominent businessmen, allowing him to fight on as the highest court prepares to hear the bigger arguments. How the dispute began In 2014, one of Bitature’s companies, Simba Properties…
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Uganda’s High Court has issued a decision that reshapes the rules of engagement in tax disputes. The decision gives clarity on the much-contested 30% deposit requirement and reins in the contempt powers of the Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT). The case arose when Nile Breweries disputed additional tax assessments issued by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for VAT and excise duty. Nile Breweries had already paid its self-assessed taxes but challenged URA’s additional demand, which it viewed as unlawful. While seeking an injunction before the Tax Appeals Tribunal, a condition was imposed that Nile Breweries pays 30% of the tax “in…
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A group of Ugandan lawyers and civic activists have taken to the High Court to challenge what they describe as a dangerous, unconstitutional, and illegal encroachment on Kampala’s lifeline drainage system—the Nakivubo Channel. At the center of the dispute is businessman Hamis Kiggundu, aka Ham, whose company Ham Enterprises, is conducting construction works on the protected channel. The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) are accused of failing in their oversight roles, while the Attorney General has been sued as government’s chief legal representative. The plaintiffs, Naffi Kazinda and Samuel Oola, represented by F….
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Uganda’s Supreme Court on 18th September, delivered a landmark ruling in the long-running dispute between businessman Hassan Bassajjabalaba and public interest watchdog Legal Brains Trust (LBT), led by outspoken lawyer…
