Our Services

We assist clients get the necessary tax clearances, certificates and also arrange their affairs in a way that makes their businesses commercially viable, taking into the regularly changing tax regime in Uganda. This
makes investment decision-­making a lot easier in terms of planning and execution.

Uganda’s mining sector is one of the fastest growing sectors. Currently, The Uganda government has proposed amendments to current mining laws and regulations to avoid red tape and streamline the sector in order
to attract both local and foreign investors.

Our team advises its clients on:
a) Preparation of applications for licenses
b) Acquisition of licenses and permits i.e. prospective licenses, mining leases, exploration licenses, location licenses, and mineral dealer-­license for various minerals
c) Acquisition of surface rights for the different licenses.

Your key relationships: from joint ventures to key suppliers. Your critical structures: from supply chain to sales and marketing channels. Your unexpected challenges: we handle.

Our focus. Strategic insight — the Right Structure. Technical Skills — the Right Drafting — the Right Approach — Negotiating Success.

We’re knowledgeable in handling complex contracts negotiations. We’re experienced, working across different industries, interacting with regulators, customers, and suppliers, both domestically and
internationally.

We’re insightful, working with our colleagues to solve the toughest problems. We’re innovative, always breaking new ground and solving new problems. We’re straight talking, giving jargon-­free and impactful advice on complex issues.

We use innovative approaches to solving your most complex challenges, deals, while making and creating value for your business.

Companies that need permits and licenses from governmental authorities that are critical to their operations turn to the firm’s environmental team. We develop permitting strategies, comment on and negotiate the terms in draft permits, and challenge final permits that fail to provide needed authority.

To thrive in global commerce, you must try to predict and shape policy and negotiation outcomes. Engage legislators. Make sure your priorities are addressed in trade negotiations.

Magumba & Co., understands that employment issues are about more than knowing the law. They’re about knowing your business and understanding your people.

Our team advises and guides clients on all types of employment challenges and opportunities, wherever they occur. We understand the business sensitivities that surround each matter, and work to foresee and avert complications. We help you make informed decisions that minimize workplace risk, and ultimately, find tailored solutions to a specific organization.

Our employment lawyers:

• Advise and defend companies in litigation or arbitration
• Help develop and implement best practices
• Negotiate with unions or work councils
• Arrange orderly separations
• Protect your company and ensure you have, and properly implement, the best workplace policies
• Talk with clients in clear and straightforward terms

We also offer labour arbitration services for organizations. We advise on retirement benefits like setting up schemes, trustee arrangements, administrators, fund management and trusteeship.

We guide clients through the process of developing an immigration strategy, and applying for the appropriate visas and permits, as well as assisting clients sponsoring employees through an employment-­based process to acquire work permits.

We advocate clients’ cases before the Uganda government agencies, and consular posts responsible for processing and approving the required documentation like passports and dependency passes.

Our cross-­disciplinary practice spans all industries and provides clients with the full range of immigration-­related legal services and counselling
on deemed export certifications required for immigration filings.

Our approach? Collaborative. We take time to understand your needs and objectives.

Your ideas | Your innovations | Your brand | Our IP practice understands that these assets make your business unique, and we know how to protect them.

Our IP teams offer a breadth of experience in IP transactional and advisory work, covering the full range of IP subjects, in both domestic and international contexts.

Examples of our work include:

• Patent, trademark and copyright litigation
• Technology licences and joint ventures and other forms of technical cooperation and development
• Brand licensing, sponsorship and franchising agreements
• Copyright-­based agreements across the creative industries with a particularly strong experience and focus on digital and online aspects
• Analysis of IP portfolios and IP-­related agreements in M&A and financing projects, inputting into transaction documents and preparing associated agreements
• IP risk assessment on proposed new ventures and advice on risk minimisation
• Advice on best practice use and protection of IP
• Patent licensing and cross-­licensing
• Advertising

We know that each organization is unique and it requires a tailored approach to how we address the necessary challenges that arise within the organization. Not every solution is found in the law.

Our team takes time within the organization and interacts in detail with executives and employees to understand where issues are arising from and help the organization handle those issues. It does not matter whether it is a domestic or international merger. The conflict of laws and policies are issues we take into account in assisting our clients.

We also design conflict management systems for organizations to assist them align their conflict management systems in line with the organizational culture i.e whether it prefers litigation which is a public forum or a private system. Conflict management systems can assist organizations prepare adequately for any issues that might arise but also can be used as tools for encouraging, motivating employees and building customer and brand loyalty.

We have a team of ADR practitioners with both practical and academic training in the aforementioned field. We offer arbitration, mediation and ombudsman functions to clients. We help our clients to tailor the said fields in a way that suits their organizational culture.

At the same time, we are able to represent clients at different Arbitral tribunals and Mediation Centers both locally and internationally. We combine both advocacy and negotiations skills to navigate the most complex of situations.