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Firm Overview

A Commercial & Corporate law firm
Founded in 1969, Katende Ssempebwa & Co is the largest law firm in Uganda.

Specialises in:
Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution

• general and complex commercial and civil litigation
• bankruptcy
• banking class actions
• consumer protection
• constitutional and human rights matters
• contracts
• criminal law
• debtor-creditor issues
• debt recovery
• employee benefits
• energy
• environmental matters
• insurance
• labour and employment
• leases and mortgages
• professional liability
• tax
• trusts

Pro bono work for various local NGOs and Human Rights organisations and the Uganda Law Society.

Solicitor and Transactional

• arbitration and dispute resolution
• aviation law
• banking law
• bankruptcy law
• business law
• capital markets
• civil rights law
• commercial law
• company secretarial work
• constitutional law
• copyright law
• construction law
• contracts
• conveyancing
• corporate law
• corporate restructurings
• criminal law
• debt recovery
• environmental law
• equipment finance and leasing
• family law/domestic relations
• finance law
• foreign missions
• human rights law
• immigration law
• personal injury
• immigration law
• intellectual property
• international law
• investments
• labour and employment
• land transactions
• landlords and tenants
• liquidation
• medial/entertainment
• mergers and acquisitions
• mortgages
• non-profit and charitable organisations
• patents/trademarks
• privatisation and divestiture
• products liability
• receivership
• securities
• tax
• telecommunications
• utilities
• trusts and estates

Contact Information

Name: John W Katende

Title: Advocate

Degree: LLM (Harvard), LLB Hons (University of East Africa)

Speciality:
Litigation and dispute resolution
Corporate law
Corporate restructurings
Privatisation
Business and investment law
Securities
Banking and finance
International commercial transactions
Mergers and acquisitions