Uganda is experiencing growing positive attitudes towards international arbitration as an established mechanism for resolving disputes.
Allan Waniala specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters in areas of law such as banking and financial services, commercial contracts, construction, negligence and product liability, employment, transport, insurance, real estate and regulatory affairs. Allan also has experience in arbitration under both domestic and international arbitration frameworks.
Experience has included advising:
- A Ugandan Investor and entity against an East African member state in the East African Court of Justice in a claim for breach of various economic provisions of the Treaty Establishing the East African Community and Protocols on Establishment of the East African Common Market.
- Hima Cement Limited in an UNCITRAL arbitration proceeding in a logistics dispute.
- A financial institution in a dispute for alleged infringement of image rights and intellectual property of a customer
- A leading telecommunications company in a breach of contract / regulatory compliance suit with an exposure of USD3 million
- A statutory provident fund in an action seeking to recover statutory contribution of over USD4 million.
- Successfully represented a financial institution in an action for breach of banker customer relationship in a mobile banking transaction.
- The client in an action seeking to restrain a competitor from infringing its trademark and copyright.
- A financial institution in a multi-billion-shilling suit seeking to challenge the decision to pay out a call on performance and advance payment guarantees.
- Stanbic Bank in arbitral proceedings for breach of banker-customer contract.
Professional Qualifications
- Advocate admitted to the High Court of Uganda.
Education
- Queen Mary University of London: Master of Laws (Comparative and International Dispute Resolution).
- Makerere University: Bachelor of Laws.
- Law Development Centre: Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (bar qualification).
Memberships
- Member of the East African Law Society.
- Member of the Uganda Law Society.