About Us

Welcome to  Magezi Ibale & Co Advocates the best law firm and advocates for all your legal needs.

Who we are

Magezi, Ibale & Co. Advocates is a well-established law firm with over 20 years of  professional legal practice. We are approved by the Uganda Law Council to practice law in Uganda. Our legal team has vast practical legal experience and expertise accumulated over many years of practice.

At Magezi Ibale, we are a client oriented law firm that devotes our skill, time, knowledge, and experience to offer custom law innovative tailor made solutions for our clients. 

Where we work

At  Magezi, Ibale & Co. Advocates, we are a general law firm with over 20 years of law practice experience and expertise that serves clients in the following service areas 

Banking & Finance

We structure innovative and pragmatic financing strategies to help all clients whether creditors, borrowers, or other third-party beneficiaries to achieve their goals. Our finance team counsels financial institutions, corporate borrowers, project sponsors and developers in their financing activities in domestic loan, debt, equity, capital, credit, and lease transactions

Company Law

We provide top brass legal services to our corporate clients to successfully achieve their objectives and strategies. We advise on matters concerning; company management and operations, contracts, employment, real estate, conveyancing, regulation and compliance, due diligence, intellectual property, independent advice and compliance with the international principles of corporate governance

Intellectual Property

We provide legal advice, searches, registrations, renewals, restorations, licensing, assignments, franchising, litigation, anti-counterfeiting actions, management services, and dispute resolution in connection with brands, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, slogans, logos, and Internet domain names. We also advise on all types of copyright-related matters, copyright identification and registration programs and examination of moral rights or related issues.

Insurance

We offer support to insurance and re-insurance companies on commercial, regulatory and dispute management aspects of their business. Our insurance attorneys focus on the legal issues that affect insurers, reinsurers, insureds, intermediaries, and their professional insurance consultants. Our approach uses an array of insurance-specific counselling, regulatory transactional, litigation and expertise to work in order to achieve the most specific and effective solutions for our clients

Labour & Employment

We offer customized, effective, and convenient advice on employment and labor matters. We advise employers on compliance with employment, Labor, Health and Safety Laws/Regulations of Uganda. We also formulate company Internal Rules and Regulations for our clients. We further help immigrant workers obtain the necessary work permits, entry permits, special passes, or certificates of residence.

Energy, Infrastructure & Construction law

We advice our building and construction clients on matters such as licensing, regularization, contract management, joint ventures, and legal audits. We ensure our clients' compliance, following and conformity with the Employment and Labor Laws/Regulations of Uganda. We also handle all construction project related disputes and advise on power generation, mining, rail and transport projects.

Foreign Investment

We advise foreign and local companies on cross-border transactions including joint ventures, strategic alliances, agency relationships, international distribution and sales, franchising, project finance, intellectual property licensing. We also advise foreign clients on matters of business formation, land acquisition, immigration & employment, business operation licenses and permits, equipment leases and hire plus environmental issues.

Real Estate Services

We provide legal real estate advice and services to both local and international clientele on a wide range of services. From land acquisition to drawing contracts and tenancy agreements, carrying out searches in the respective property registries, transfers of ownership and interest or other rights in real estate property, lodging caveats, leasing, and sub leasing, commercial and domestic letting, mortgages, subdivisions, land use, compulsory acquisition, and compensation.

Meet our team

Our team comprises of professional and experienced practical legal experts to handle all your legal needs efficiently and effectively.

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MAGEZI JOHN

Managing Partner

LLM (with Merit) in Commercial & Corporate Laws from University of London. Diploma in Legal Practice (Dip Legal Practice) Law Development Centre, Uganda. Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Makerere University, Uganda.

Naturinda Ritah
NATURINDA RITAH

Senior Associate

Diploma in Legal Practice (Dip Legal Practice) Law Development Centre, Uganda . Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Makerere University, Uganda.

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KIGONYA CHRISTOPHER ELLIOT

Legal Assistant

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Uganda Christian University, Uganda.