Peter Kauma, FCIArb

Peter Kauma, FCIArb is a Partner and Head of Litigation at K&K Advocates, leading the firm's Litigation Team. His primary practice area is Arbitration and Mediation, with a practice that spans commercial litigation, arbitration, energy, banking and finance, taxation, and corporate and commercial advisory.

He advises multinational corporations, local companies, public entities and financial institutions on contentious matters, regulatory compliance and international arbitration proceedings involving state and quasi-state entities. He has expertise in international arbitration with a strong focus on investor-state and state-related disputes, having acted as counsel under the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

He has advised on high-value and strategically significant matters across Uganda's energy and infrastructure sectors, representing clients in major domestic and cross-border transactions. His work includes petroleum supply arrangements, refinery and pipeline development projects, mining and carbon framework agreements, and aviation infrastructure. He is regularly instructed on complex project development matters where the alignment of state and investor interests is central to achieving workable, durable outcomes.

He is an active researcher on the oil and gas sector and has written papers on health and safety regulation, expropriation risk, production sharing agreements, energy dispute resolution, arbitrator independence, e-arbitration, refinery development in Africa, the impact of COVID-19 on the oil and gas value chain, and petroleum tax dispute resolution in Uganda.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He holds an LL.M in Oil and Gas from the Institute of Petroleum Studies Kampala, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, and an LL.B (Hons) from Makerere University. His areas of expertise include commercial litigation and arbitration, oil and gas, infrastructure projects, banking and finance, and taxation.