Ugandan law firm Ortus Advocates partners with Yingke, China’s largest law firm Ortus Advocates becomes the first law firm to join the Yingke Global Legal Alliance, a network of over 8,000 lawyers in 113 cities in 53 countries – located in key financial, business and regulatory centers in Asia, Europe, South America and North America.

With most of Uganda’s largest and oldest law firms looking to the west for partnerships and affiliations with major global legal brands such as DLA Piper, Dentons and Norton Rose Fulbright and to the south- mainly South Africa, one Ugandan law firm is daring to look to the east- the Far East for a partner. Ortus Advocates, one of Uganda’s youngest legal, tax and business advisory law firms, has partnered with Yingke Law Firm,China’s largest indigenous law firm and one of the top 5 law firms in China by revenue and presence. Under a cooperation agreement signed in December 2019,…