Ronald Kalema

Ronald Kalema is a Partner in the Corporate Department and Head of the Tax Practice at AF Mpanga, a role he has held since March 2020. His primary practice area is Tax Law, and he has over seventeen years of high-level tax advisory and litigation experience, having held senior and managerial positions at two of the Big 4 audit firms.

He has advised major Ugandan and multinational companies across various sectors on issues ranging from tax dispute resolution and tax audit support to tax restructuring, customs planning, international tax, transfer pricing, tax policy and the tax implications of private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience assisting clients whose tax disputes have reached the Tax Appeals Tribunal as well as the High Court of Uganda.

In addition to an LLM in International Taxation from the New York University School of Law, he holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, where he won the Uganda Law Society prize for academic excellence, and an LLB from Makerere University, where he graduated among the top 5% in his academic year.

He is a member of the East African Law Society and the Uganda Law Society, where he is actively involved with the tax cluster. He has successfully led discussions with various high-level committees, including the Parliamentary Public Finance Committee, on the adoption of key tax amendments for Uganda.