Ian Mutibwa

Ian Mutibwa is a Partner at the firm. His primary practice area is Tax Law, and he specialises in tax, including Islamic financing and entertainment law.

He is currently taking leadership of the Islamic Finance Hub, a training centre for Islamic finance in Uganda, and pioneered the Islamic Finance conference in Uganda. He is currently engaging with the Ministry of Finance over policy formulation for the taxation of Islamic finance, specifically a diminishing Musharaka product. He has a keen interest in the development and evolution of Islamic finance and the entertainment law practice in Uganda.

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

Under the International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) Programme, in 2016 he was seconded to the global law firm of Latham and Watkins LLP in the UK, in the International Tax and Project Finance Departments, with a special emphasis on the African market.

He is both Ugandan and UK trained and has over fourteen years of experience working at an audit firm and as an advocate at commercial law firms, with emphasis on tax practice. He has twice been nominated for the award of "Partner of the Year" at the Africa Legal Awards, 2020 and 2021, and was recognised amongst the 75 highly regarded business lawyers in Uganda. He is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner in Uganda.

He holds a Certificate of Taxation of Oil and Gas and International Taxation from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, Uganda, and a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, Uganda. He is a member of the East Africa Law Society and the Uganda Law Society.