Colman Ntungwerisho

Colman Ntungwerisho is an Associate at the Firm, focusing on Commercial Litigation. He serves in both the Corporate & Commercial and Litigation and Transaction & Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) departments.

His expertise includes commercial litigation and arbitration, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), energy, oil & gas, mining, and tax & compliance. He also has a keen interest in competition law and Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG).

His representative matters include representing ATC Uganda Limited at the Centre for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in a US$3 million arbitration against a telecom company; successfully representing ATC Uganda Limited in a UGX 7.8 billion dispute with a telecom company; representing Equity Bank Uganda Limited in the Constitutional Court in a matter challenging the constitutionality of Regulation 13 of the Mortgage Regulations; and representing various individual, local and international clients in arbitration matters at the Centre for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

He also advised Airtel Uganda Limited on the listing of 20% of its shares on the main segment of the Uganda Securities Exchange; routinely conducts due diligence on behalf of the Bank of Uganda on applicants for licences under the National Payment Systems Act; advised Google on the implications of the Digital Services Tax imposed under the Income Tax (Amendment) Act, 2023; and is a legal advisor to Technology Products and Services Limited, the local subsidiary of IBM.

In November 2018, Colman was joint inaugural winner of the World Bank’s Law Student Proposal Contest and presented his winning proposal at the World Bank’s Law, Justice and Development Conference in Washington, D.C. In January 2020, he won the LEX:LEAD Competition, sponsored by Allen & Overy. He has undertaken specialised training in Business and Human Rights at the University of Zurich, and his work has been published in the ESR Review of the University of the Western Cape, the World Bank’s Africa Blog – Nasikiliza, and the Makerere Law Journal. He holds an LLB with Honours from Makerere University (2020) and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre (2021).