Education
- Makerere University, Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with Honours – 2021
- Law Development Centre, Diploma in Legal Practice – 2022
Memberships
- Uganda Law Society
Countries In Which Practiced
- Uganda
Languages
- English
- Runyankore
- Luganda
Collins is an Associate at KATS. He received his LLB with honours from Makerere University in 2021 having been admitted for the course on government scholarship. He completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice in 2022 and joined the firm as a junior associate after his clerkship.
His areas of specialty are Corporate and commercial law, Banking and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Property and Real Estate, Technology and Litigation.
Sample Transactions
Corporate and Commercial law
Technology, media and Telecommunication (TMT)
Litigation
- Part of the KATS team that advised I&M Capital on licenses under the Collective Investment regulatory framework, that would be required to permit it to market their products in Uganda specifically its USD fund product.
- Part of the KATS team that advised Bank of Uganda on its legal audit of Mercantile Credit Bank.
- Part of the KATS team that advises DFCU Uganda Limited on security documentation and perfection of securities.
- Part of the KATS team that Conducted a due diligence on behalf of Equity Bank Uganda in respect to consolidation of banking facilities of UGX 70,401,327,000 and an offer of a banking facility of UGX 6,500,000 extended to Master Grain Milling Limited.
- Part of the KATS team that conducted a vendor due diligence report on behalf of Wananchi Group Holdings Limited.
- Part of the team that advised Equity Bank Limited on its administrative receivership of Apex Impex Limited.
- Part of the KATS team that advised Google in reviewing and updating its rights and policies subject to Uganda’s copy right law.
- Part of the KATS team that advised Google on the regulatory compliance in respect to Gambling Ads and certification of gambling adverts.
- Part of the KATS team that advised on Google Pixel’s expansion of 5G/voLTE and VoWiFi connectivity in Uganda where Google is not selling phones and on whether Google can work with local carriers to expand VoLTE/VoWiFi capabilities on their networks.
- Part of the KATS team that advised Airtel on its Initial Public Offering and its subsequent listing on the Uganda Securities Exchange.
- Part of the KATS team that advised American Tower Corporation on its merger and acquisition with Eaton towers.
- Represented former employees of SEE TV in an objection hearing proceeding before Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) in the matter of transfer of hybrid licence to Mtundwe Christian Fellowship Broadcasting Limited.
- Part of the KATS team that provides civil and criminal legal assistance in litigation matters on behalf of American Tower Corporation, one of the biggest telecom operators in Uganda and worldwide.
- Part of the KATS Team that successfully represented MUA insurance in an insurance claim worth UGX 365,081,430 brought by Agri Exim Bank.
- Part of the team that successfully represented Equity Bank Uganda Limited in a mortgage dispute wherein court awarded Equity Bank limited USD 1,074,015.3 as the total outstanding sum of the mortgage and interest at a rate of 11% per annum from the date of filing the suit.
- Represented 24 former employees of See TV in a claim against See Tv.
- Successful represented Rhino Investments Limited in a suit brought against it by Nanjing Restaurant Limited.
