Andrew Kibaya

Andrew Kibaya is a Partner at the firm and heads its banking and finance department, focusing on Banking and Finance Law. He specialises in banking, finance and tax law.

He also handles insurance, taxation, privatisation and de-regulation law, and all aspects of commercial litigation. He has experience advising international and local clients on commercial transactions and complex commercial litigation.

Andrew has acted for government and its institutions and agencies, as well as the private sector, in public and private partnerships, earning him a good understanding of private and public sector needs. He was seconded to Barclays Bank, Uganda as a legal consultant to assist in the legal integration following Barclays’ acquisition of a financial institution.

He is recognised by IFLR1000 as one of the country’s leading lawyers in matters of Banking and Finance, and has been described as “experienced, dynamic to the business needs and also very engaging” by Chambers Global, which has also ranked him as a leading General Business lawyer in Uganda. He was also a part-time instructor at the Law Development Centre, Uganda’s only postgraduate school for practical legal education.

Andrew holds an LLM (with Merit) in Commercial and Corporate Law from the University of London, a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, and a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, and has pursued an English Solicitor Training Course from the Solicitor Regulation Authority in the UK. He is a member of The Law Society (England and Wales), the International Bar Association, the East Africa Law Society and the Uganda Law Society, and is a Notary Public.