Mr Elison Karuhanga > Kampala Associated Advocates > Kampala, Uganda > Lawyer Profile
Kampala Associated Advocates Offices
KAA HOUSE, PLOT 41 NAKASERO ROAD
KAMPALA
Uganda
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Mr Elison Karuhanga
Work Department
Litigation and Arbitration, Energy and Natural Resources ,Banking, Finance and Agriculture
Position
Partner
Career
Elison works in the Litigation and Energy law department. The department has and continues to successfully represent several local and international clients in varied sectors including oil and gas companies, telecommunications, construction, banking, as well as public bodies and government agencies.
He is also a trained Oil and Gas lawyer having obtained an LLM (Oil and Gas Law) from the University of Aberdeen. He was a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN). Elison is a member of GOXI which is part of the World Bank Institutes’ Governance for Extractive Industries Program which brings together practitioners from government, private sector, Ngo’s and think tanks with the aim of strengthening governance in the extractive industries’ sector. He is also a member of the Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum.
Elison was recently asked by the Oxford Energy Institute to contribute to a paper comparing the legal regime in Uganda governing oil and gas law with the one in Brazil together with the Director of the Institute Dr. Eduardo Guedes Pereira.
He was elected by his peers at the University of Aberdeen as the student representative for the LLM (Oil and Gas) Law class 2010-2011. He was invited by Ugandan Women Lawyers under their umbrella organisation (FIDA) to do a presentation on “Oil and Gas Law in Uganda”.
Elison has experience in the Banking sector and worked with a leading bank for over three years. He worked first as a banking officer and understands the general operations of the bank. He later worked as a legal officer in the bank’s legal department and was responsible for the preparation and perfection of legal documentation, the recovery of non-performing assets and provision of legal advice. Elison together with others appeared before the Parliamentary Legal Committee on behalf of the Uganda Bankers Association to address issues to do with mortgage regulation.
He has invaluable experience in insolvency, securitization and document registration not limited to the registration of trademarks, patents and copyrights.
He has also worked in the Ministry of Justice for over five years as a state attorney and have an excellent appreciation of public and regulatory law and rendered legal advice on diverse subjects to the government of Uganda. I have extensive litigation experience and have appeared before all the courts of record in Uganda as well as the East African Court of Justice. He is an adept litigator and is effective, efficient and expeditious in court.
He has provided resourceful representation to a wide range of clients and following his resignation from the Ministry of Justice he was retained to represent the government in a major lawsuit. During his tenure under the Ministry of Justice he handled matters on behalf of the State House of Uganda, Ministry of Defense, The Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces, the Uganda Police Force, The Ministry of Local Government, The Ministry of Lands, The Registrar of Titles of Uganda, the Ministry of Finance, Parliament of Uganda and the Ministry of Water and Environment to mention but a few.
Languages
English , Luganda , Runyankore, Kiswahili
Memberships
- Member, Uganda Law Society
- Member, East African Law Society
- Member, Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum
- Member, Chevening Alumni
- Student Member, Honorable Society of the Inner Temple
Education
Masters of Law (LLM) in Oil and Gas Law, University of Aberdeen
Post Graduate Diploma in Law, Law Development Centre
LLB from University of Kent