Andrew Mugambe

Andrew Mugambe is an Associate at the firm. His primary practice area is Corporate Law.

His experience includes advising clients on business formations, including registrations and incorporations, due diligence investigations, compliance and risk, governance and routine company law advisory. He provides strategic corporate and commercial legal advisory to businesses across diverse sectors, with experience spanning company formation and governance, regulatory and compliance advisory, commercial contracting, employment and labour law, intellectual property protection and data privacy regulation.

His professional experience includes advising on Uganda's data privacy and protection laws, reviewing and updating data privacy and information security policies, and successfully securing a Data Protection Licence in June 2024. He provided legal advisory during a data breach incident at MTN Uganda, guiding on regulatory reporting obligations to the Bank of Uganda under electronic payment systems law and to the National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA) under data protection law, covering materiality thresholds, reporting timelines, penalties and strategies to manage ongoing investigations.

He has advised on the principles of purpose limitation and storage limitation regarding personal data collected by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) on Aga Khan Foundation students, reviewing consent forms to ensure full compliance with Uganda's Data Privacy and Protection Act. He also assisted in the formation and registration of the MTN MoMo Market Company with the relevant government authorities, providing corporate structuring support, preparation of incorporation documentation and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

He advises clients on employment and labour law matters, including workforce structuring, policy development, disciplinary management, termination risk mitigation and dispute resolution in compliance with Uganda's employment and labour regulatory framework. He also advises on intellectual property protection and commercialisation, including trademark registration and portfolio management, opposition and enforcement proceedings, copyright protection, licensing and assignment structures, and infringement risk management, and has structured IP provisions in commercial and employment agreements to secure ownership, confidentiality, restrictive covenants and regulatory compliance.

He provides clients, including Aga Khan Education Services and many others, with comprehensive contract advisory services, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating and risk-structuring commercial agreements such as service and consultancy contracts, distribution and supply agreements, non-disclosure agreements, licensing arrangements, shareholder agreements and corporate governance instruments.