Patrick Mugalula

Patrick Mugalula is a Senior Associate at KATS. His practice primarily covers Employment Law, with over 8 years' experience.

His practice also covers competition law, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, data protection and privacy law, technology, media and telecommunications law, fintech regulatory and advisory law, insolvency law, capital markets, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, constitutional litigation, and tax and compliance.

Patrick is one of the firm's focal people with respect to the Google Sub Saharan Africa Legal Services Hub that advises Google on all its legal, regulatory and other obligations in Uganda.

His recent experience includes leading the team that advised Copia Uganda Limited, a B2C multinational e-commerce company, on its exit from Uganda, which entailed the discharge of over 400 employees and contractors, the discharge of all contracts and other obligations, and placing the company in a state of corporate legal dormancy and tax de-registration. He was also a member of the team that advised Airtel Uganda Limited (a member of the Bharti Airtel Group) on all aspects of its USD 1 Billion listing on the Uganda Securities Exchange and the offering of a 20% stake to the public through its Initial Public Offering.

Patrick is a focal person in the firm's Employment, Corporate & Commercial, Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolutions departments and routinely advises several large firms in Uganda on their employment obligations. He has also represented various businesses before the Industrial Court and appellate courts in their quest to obtain labour justice. He advises and represents various large financial institutions, regional development banks, multinationals and high net worth individuals in the various courts of Uganda.

He is currently a member of the Uganda Law Society's Constitutional and Fundamental Rights litigation group, currently litigating a freedom of expression matter against the state in the Constitutional Court of Uganda.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with Honours from Uganda Christian University (2015), where he was the Secretary General of the 'Integrity in the Law Journal', and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre (2016).