The firm is structured as a general practice firm providing an array of legal services in a variety of legal practice areas. While we encourage our lawyers to specialize, we also train them to ensure that they are flexible enough to undertake new and challenging work that may not have been their primary area of specialization. Our practice is divided into two major areas, litigation and dispute resolution and solicitor & transactional work.

• LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE

We have built an impeccable track record in litigation in the 27 years we have been in practice and we intend to be involved in ground breaking law making and landmark litigation cases that will help to shape the laws of Uganda.

We also do a lot of probational work for various local NGOs and Human Rights Organizations and the Uganda Law Society. AT KASOLO & KHIDDU ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS we believe in alternative resolution of disputes and regard courts as a remedy of last resort. We therefore get involved in a substantial amount of arbitration, mediation and negotiation proceedings and these out of court settlements save clients time, expenses and other constraints of unnecessary litigation.

• TRANSACTIONAL PRACTICE

This firm has maintained a significant and pioneering presence in all areas of general and specialized transactional practice and this has helped our firm to collectively pool its resources and consistently   give comprehensive advice even in the most unusual circumstances.
The Following are some of the transactional areas we cover:

• BANKING & FINANCE
  Our firm has a wealth of experience in the banking industry and represents a number of banking and financial institutions
  Our practice includes general banking structual  finance, syndicated and general lending, asset and project finance, guarantees, derivatives, debentures and charges.
  We act as counsel for numerous foreign and local investors, foreign donor agencies. We have also developed a niche speciality in all matters relating to e-commerce and e-banking.

 

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• CORPORATE,COMMERCIAL LAW ,INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT LAW:

This practice encompasses the full range of legal services required by corporations and other business entities.Our firm has served as an in-house counsel, company secretaries for foreign and local clients, we provide advice to foreign companies from all parts of the world and assist foreign companies in the establishment, registration and restructuring of foreign investment enterprises locally. We handle matters relating to equity and constructual joint ventures, wholly owned foreign enterprises and holding companies, financial and management agreements.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADEMARKS, PATENT & PRODUCT LIABILITY

This firm has a thrilling intellectual property department and negotiates property rights, agreements handles trademark and patent application procedure declarations of use and renewal. In addition we handle protection of these trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights and layout design.We have also successfully enforced intellectual property rights in matters involving trademark, violations, licencing and exploitation of agenda and we successfully handle competition and pricing action in Uganda.

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• INSURANCE, DEBT RECOVERY, RECEIVERSHIPS, BANKRUPTCY AND LIQUIDATION

This firm handles substantial insurance work  including drafting insurance constraints and enforcement of insurance claims. We also handle bankruptcy liquidation, debt collection and receiverships for various organizations and individuals.

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• EMPLOYMENT & LABOUR LAW, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & CLASS ACTION

The firm advises international and corporate clients on employment contracts handling redundancies and relation with  remuneration and incentive systems, pension funds and social security benefits, expatriation, employee benefits, work permits and visa application.

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• CONVEYANCING AND LAND TRANSACTION, PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION LAW

Kasolo & Khiddu Advocates & Solicitors executes a tremendous amount of land transaction work and this is one of its largest areas of practice.
We specialize in all kinds of land transactions including but not limited to mortgage charges, debentures, purchase, sales and transfers and all manner of litigation attendance thereto.

We also advise foreign and local institutions, investors, developers and surveyors and do a lot of due diligence work regarding development projects in Uganda. We also act as estate managers for landlords  abroad and those locally based.

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  SECURITIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS

This is a relatively new area on the Ugandan market as the Uganda Stock Exchange was established a few years ago.Our securities team boasts of a wealth of experience having received specalised training in Securities and Capital Markets.

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NON-PROFIT & CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS & FOREIGN

The firm does a lot of work for various NGOs and actual monitoring of their performance and general legal work coup-led with lots of probational legal work.

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   PROBATE, TRUSTS & ESTATES
We do a lot of work in Trusts and Estate relating to wills, succession, probate, divorce and separations. We have also acted as executors, trustees and administrators of numerous estates in Uganda

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
We have prepared numerous legal opinion and international papers regarding the environment.Kasolo & Khiddu Advocates & Solicitors has also handled a number of due diligence audits involving environmental audits of projects being undertaken by our clients.

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CRIMINAL LAW

This firm has represented clients in numerous high profile criminal proceedings and boasts of a very impressive record in this field. We have also often been instructed to carry out private prosecution.We maintain links with various private investigations on behalf of our clients.

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

This firm has done a lot of work involving copyright law and copying infringement.

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW:

The firm handles a number of landmark constitutional cases.

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  ENDOSURES

We can also avail upon request the following information for our clients a detailed profile of our firm outlining our history,  legal and technological resources and details of the practice areas we engage in. We cover profiles of our key personnel and the innovation we have and are taking to improve our services to our clients.

We prepare profiles of the most recent transactions in any and all of the areas of law we cover for purposes of showing our expertise and experience.
Subject to client approval we can provide an up-to-date list of our major clientele and where possible outlines of the transactions and/or legal services  we have availed to them .

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