Agriculture Law Practice
At Kampala Associated Advocates, we understand the pivotal role that agriculture plays in driving economic development and transformation. Contributing approximately 36% to the GDP and 31% to export earnings, the agriculture sector in Uganda represents a significant yet largely untapped opportunity for growth and investment. Beyond ensuring food security, the sector has the potential to stimulate broader economic growth across the agricultural value chain, from production and processing to supply and trade. This growth creates both direct and indirect employment opportunities and injects essential capital to diversify and fortify local economies.
Our dedicated Agriculture Law Practice is strategically positioned to support and guide key stakeholders within the sector. We provide comprehensive legal advice on policy, regulatory, and contractual frameworks, ensuring that our clients navigate the complex landscape effectively. By facilitating the injection of much-needed capital, we empower agricultural enterprises to innovate, expand, and thrive.
Our expertise covers a wide range of agricultural legal matters, including: Regulatory Compliance, Land Use and Property Rights; Financing and Investment; Agri-business Contracts; Sustainability and Environmental Law; Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property protection among others.
Kampala Associated Advocates is committed to fostering a vibrant and resilient agricultural sector, recognizing its crucial role in the sustainable development of our economy. By leveraging our legal expertise, we aim to support the sector's growth, enhancing its contribution to national and global markets.
Milestones
- Represented a company involved in the development of a cotton value chain from field to fashion. The transaction involved among others, land acquisitions, agreements between the company and the out growers, a joint venture arrangement between companies at various stages of the value chain and facility agreements pertaining to the financing of the project.
- Represent a non-profit organization involved in financing small scale farmers. We are working with this entity in the formation of a supply value chain to enable small scale farmers build capacity to supply the camps situated in the oil region with agricultural produce. The creation of the value chain involves agreements and arrangements between financial institutions, agricultural aggregators, laboratories, cold chain industry players, transporters among others.
- Represented one of the largest commercial farming companies in Uganda set up. We carried out the requisite due diligence in their acquisition of farm land across the country, tax advice on the importation of farming equipment and export of the produce.
- Represent the Office of Operation Wealth Creation on various agricultural projects such as the export of fish maw and setting up of agricultural processing industries across various industrial parks in the country.
- Represent an international company that has entered into an agreement with the Government of Uganda worth over US$400 million for the building of various infrastructure aimed at the creation on a national agricultural supply chain.
- Represent one of the largest sugar growers/manufacturers. We have represented the entity in the negotiation of a facility of over US$ 100 million for the procurement of irrigation equipment and machinery.
- Represent a financial institution with the largest agricultural financing portfolio in the country and have worked with the entity in the formation of financial agreements and other documentation.
- Represent one of the Largest Commercial Fish farming entities in Uganda in relation to their operations in Uganda.
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