Nicholas Mwasame

Nicholas Mwasame is a Partner at the firm. His primary practice area is Dispute Resolution, and he specialises in dispute resolution and arbitration, and property conveyancing.

He handles commercial litigation, insolvency, debt recovery and alternative dispute resolution. His litigation experience is mainly in banking, corporate matters and land matters.

He was seconded to Orient Bank Limited, one of Uganda's leading indigenous financial institutions, as head of the legal department on a short contract. He has worked on a number of assignments and regularly appears in the courts handling complex legal matters.

He successfully acted for and advised on a complex matter in the Supreme Court of Uganda involving a US$4 million claim by various petroleum companies from the Uganda Revenue Authority. He has also successfully defended a client in a US$38 million land dispute and is presently part of the team representing the same client in a US$41 million claim in the Commercial Court of Uganda. He is also representing a client in the Constitutional Court in respect of a US$48 million claim.

He has been invited to facilitate trainings in litigation under the National Bar Association. He is also a Board Secretary to a number of clients under SM Registrars, the corporate secretarial and governance section of the firm. He is a registered Insolvency Practitioner in Uganda, a Notary Public and a Commissioner for Oaths.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, Uganda, and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, Uganda. He is a member of the East Africa Law Society, the Uganda Law Society and the Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity.