Real Estate & Property Law
Property transactions
Our conveyancing team handles the full range of residential and commercial property transactions, from simple residential purchases to large-scale commercial acquisitions involving complex title issues and financing arrangements.
Purchase & Sale
- Sale agreements and conditions of sale
- Title investigation and due diligence
- Negotiations with vendors and purchasers
- Transfer registration at the Ministry of Lands
- Stamp duty assessment and payment
- Handover and completion management
Commercial Leasing
- Drafting and negotiating commercial leases
- Lease renewals and rent review provisions
- Subletting and assignment of leasehold interests
- Forfeiture and lease surrender
- Dilapidations and reinstatement obligations
- Ground leases and lease structuring
Land Title Verification & Due Diligence
Our M&A team provides end-to-end transactional support on acquisitions, mergers, disposals, and joint ventures. We work closely with financial advisers, accountants, and management teams to ensure transactions are structured efficiently, documented rigorously, and completed on time.
Our Due Diligence Process Covers
- Registry search and title history review
- Verification of ownership, encumbrances, and caveats
- Physical survey and boundary confirmation
- Kibanja and customary occupancy investigations
- Local authority planning and zoning checks
- Environmental and heritage designation checks
- Outstanding rates, taxes, and utility charges
- Verification of land use change permissions
Land Dispute Resolution
Land disputes in Uganda are among the most bitterly contested of all legal proceedings, often involving deeply entrenched competing claims, historical injustices, and complex family dynamics. Our litigation team has extensive experience representing landowners, developers, and institutional clients in all forms of land dispute.
Our extensive experience
- Boundary and trespass disputes
- Adverse possession claims
- Fraud and forgery of title documents
- Kibanja occupant rights disputes
- Compulsory acquisition and compensation claims
- Family land and succession disputes
- Developer-occupant eviction proceedings
- Land tribunal representation
- Injunctions to preserve land pending litigation
- Appeals to the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court
Property Develpement Advisory
For property developers and real estate investors, we provide end-to-end legal support from site acquisition through to project completion and sale or leasing of units.
what we provide
- Joint development agreements and development management contracts
- Regulatory approvals — KCCA, NEMA, NDA, district authorities
- Off-plan sale documentation and reservation agreements
- Construction contracts and sub-contractor agreements
- Title subdivision and plot registration
- Strata title and condominium documentation
