McFord Advocates assists clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes. The firm’s lawyers have global insight and local knowledge to handle all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and venture capital to private and public equity offerings.
The employment lawyers at McFord Advocates advise clients on local employment legislation and best practices, helping them meet their workforce objectives. The firm partners with clients to find solutions and manage risk in relation to their employment, incentives, and pensions legal challenges and objectives. McFord’s global reach and local knowledge enable it to partner with clients to drive consistency, deliver cost savings, and help them identify and manage their priorities and risk across multiple locations.
McFord Advocates provides a full range of commercial, intellectual property law, privacy, sourcing, and technology law services for leading businesses in Uganda. Its intellectual property and technology lawyers understand that intellectual property and technology law is at the core of any major business transaction or strategic dispute, and has become one of the most critical legal areas as companies continue to expand and protect their technologies, brands, products, data, and services around the globe.
McFord Advocates’ litigation and regulatory lawyers in Uganda are skilled in litigation, arbitration, investigations, and alternative dispute resolution, and will deploy that experience to help clients devise the best strategies. The firm has the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political, and cultural context to legal issues and develop case strategies, including technically challenging or complex multi-jurisdictional matters. McFord provides both litigation-related and strategic commercial advice to a wide range of industry sectors, helping clients achieve their objectives wherever they do business.
In addition to being Ugandan advocates, McFord Advocates provides notary and commissioner services. Its lawyers are dual-qualified, having gained experience as barristers or solicitors before coming to Uganda. With Uganda’s commercial laws drawing on laws from Commonwealth jurisdictions, and particularly the English system, there is a distinct advantage in having dual-qualified partners and associates in the practice.
