Baati Ntambi

Baati Ntambi is Of Counsel at the Firm, with a career spanning 14 years in the legal arena. Her primary practice area is Banking and Finance Law, and she has a solid background in banking & finance, capital markets and securitisation, advising clients on all types of banking transactions and assisting them in structuring, negotiating and preparing finance-related legal documentation.

She has experience in a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers & acquisitions and international trade transactions. She is involved in advising and conducting numerous commercial due diligences for a number of national and international financial institutions and telecommunication companies.

She served as a member of the Uganda Law Society's Female Lawyers Committee from 2016 to 2017 and was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by the Committee in recognition of her participation in the Mentorship Program at the Law Development Center on 29 September 2017. She participated in a three-week EXPLORE placement program hosted by Slaughter and May at their London office in April 2018.

Her sample transactions include advising American Towers Corporation on all aspects of its multi-million dollar acquisition of the tower business of MTN Uganda, involving due diligence on the towers including land ownership, and advising on environmental matters, employment matters, pension matters and licensing; being part of a multidisciplinary team that advised private equity firm 8 Miles when it acquired a 53.1% interest in Biyinzika Poultry International Limited, a transaction worth USD 17.2 million; and advising Warid Telecom on all aspects of the sale of its tower business to Eaton Towers in a transaction valued at millions of dollars.

She also advised Kenyan-based Equity Bank on its acquisition of Uganda Micro Finance Limited and its conversion and obtaining of a licence to become Equity Bank Uganda Limited, involving a legal due diligence on Uganda Micro Finance Limited and drafting and advising on the share purchase agreement and all other transactional documents; advised the Eastern and Southern Africa Development Bank (PTA Bank) on numerous large loan transactions including a multi-million dollar loan facility to Abacus Pharma (Africa) Ltd.; and advised the world's largest tower operator (American Towers Corporation) on its multi-million dollar acquisition of a 1,000 base station tower business of MTN Uganda and later the tower business of Sure Telecom.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with Honours from Makerere University (2009), where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Makerere Law Journal and a country representative on the team representing Makerere University and Uganda at the 17th All African Human Rights Moot Court Competition held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2008. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre (2010).