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Esther Nafula

Esther Nafula

Principal Associate, S&L Advocates

Esther Nafula advises financial institutions on lending arrangements and other forms of specialised finance, as well as on compliance obligations with Uganda’s financial services regulatory regime.

Experience has included advising:

  • Stanbic Bank and JUMO in connection with the structured warehouse financing of US$ 18 million. 
  • An export credit agency for a proposed export credit sovereign guarantee facility.
  • A forfaiting and trade-related finance provider and an export credit agency as lender for a proposed sovereign corporate facility.
  • African Development Bank in connection with a Partial Credit Guarantee Agreement worth US$ 2 million granted to the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership.​
  • The lenders on a US$ 3 million financing to a SME micro-lending entity.
  • International Finance Corporation on a financing to Mammoth and certain of its subsidiaries.
  • The lenders in connection with a sustainability-linked borrowing base and term loan facilities Greenlight Planet and certain of its subsidiaries.

Professional Qualifications

  • Advocate admitted to the High Court of Uganda.

Education

  • Master of Laws awarded by the University Of London (whose academic guidence and examinations are conducted by Queen Mary University of London) - Corporate ^ Commecial Law (2024)
  • LLB (Hons), Uganda Christian University, Uganda (2013).

Memberships

  • East African Law Society.
  • Uganda Law Society.