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MMAKS Advocates Offices
4th Floor, Redstone House
Plot 7 Bandali Rise - Bugolobi
Kampala, Uganda
Uganda
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Mr Apollo Nelson Makubuya
Work Department
Commercial Transactions
Position
Apollo Nelson Makubuya is one of the founding partners of MMAKS Advocates. He heads the Commercial Transactions team. With 26 years in legal practice, he specialises in corporate and commercial transactions including company incorporation, governance and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions in various fields such as banking, insurance and oil and gas.
Career
Apollo trained at Katende, Sempebwa & Co. Advocates, Uganda as a legal assistanst, after which he worked as the company secretary and manager, Legal Department, Sembu Uganda (now Allied Bank), and later company secretary of the Cotton Devlopment Organisation. Apollo went on to become a partner at Central Law Offices, Uganda, after which he co-founded MMAKS Advocates as partner in 2005.
Apollo is a former Chairman of Equity Bank Uganda and is the current Chair of Prudential Assurance Uganda Ltd. He has previously worked as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law Makerere University.
He is the Senior Palace Advisor to Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and has served in many senior capacities in the Kingdom of Buganda including as Deputy Katikkiro, Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
Languages
English
Memberships
Board chair- Prudential Assurance Uganda Ltd
Member- Uganda Law Society
Education
Master of Laws- Cambridge University, England
Bachelor of Laws (Hons)- Makerere University, Uganda
Lawyer Rankings
Uganda > Leading firms
(Leading individuals)–
MMAKS Advocates offers a ‘one stop shop for clients‘ and assists local and international investors and businesses with a wide range of corporate and commercial issues, particularly in the infrastructure, natural resources and energy sectors. Intellectual property law and litigation are further areas of strength. Managing partner Timothy Masembe Kanyerezi is an expert litigator who regularly acts for banks, and the ‘very well connected‘ Apollo Nelson Makubuya leads the commercial and corporate advisory team, assisting with a wide range of transactions. The group also includes Fiona Nalwanga Magona, who assists on multijurisdictional transactions ‘with excellent client care skills’; the corporate law specialist Godwin Kakande; and Flavia Suubo, who focuses on corporate advisory with emphasis on M&A across different sectors.