Emily Gakiza

Emily Gakiza is a Partner in the Corporate and Financial Advisory team with over 28 years of experience. Her primary practice area is Banking and Finance Law. She is formerly a partner at Capital Law Partners & Advocates and former Head of Legal and Company Secretary for Standard Chartered Bank – Uganda.

She is a finance, risk and governance professional with wide-ranging experience in the financial services sector, where she has worked in the Legal and Company Secretary, Compliance and Credit departments. She has advised on various matters including financing, conveyancing, outsourcing, corporate real estate, employment and governance.

She strongly believes in non-adversarial means of resolving disputes, and while at Standard Chartered Bank she had the least number of cases in the courts of law. She has been at the forefront of implementing compliance-related innovation in the financial services and mobile money sector, anti-money laundering and sanctions, and pension matters as a Trustee of the in-house provident scheme at Standard Chartered Uganda.

She has managed governance and strategy matters as an advisor to the Board and has worked with regulators and Parliament on issues affecting the financial services industry. She is currently a co-convenor of the Finance and Banking Cluster of the Uganda Law Society and is an accredited IFC/ICSA Governance trainer. She is proficient in English and quite fluent in French.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Leicester. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda, a Commissioner of Oaths and a Notary Public, and has completed The Africa Financial Markets Academy programme.