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Kalule Ahmed Mukasa
Ahmed is a Partner with our firm. He has immense experience in advising large corporations and institutions in many areas of the law including corporate finance law, international trade, land transactions, real estate, estates planning and trusts, sale of goods, and general contract law, among others. He has previously advised the World Bank Group, Sukari Loma Group, a company listed on both the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, International Investment House (Abu Dhabi), Emirates Africa Link for Strategic Alliance (Abu Dhabi), Emfuleni Golf Course (South Africa), Salinni Construttori (Uganda), Petro Uganda Limited, Jassim Transport and Stevedoring Company W.L.L, a company managed under the general superintendence of the Emir of Kuwait, Primedia Pty Limited (Uganda), Equity Bank Uganda, National Social Security Fund (Uganda), Kampala University, among others.
Ahmed has also litigated many high profile cases including the criminal trials of the former Health Ministers of the Government of Uganda accused of embezzling GAVI Funds and the former technocrats in the office of the Prime Minister accused of embezzling more than 30million USD. Ahmed successfully represented Equity Bank, Uganda in a novel case involving finance leases and the ruling NRM Party in cases challenging the amendments to its Constitution.
In 2013, Ahmed successfully handled a novel adoption case in which, the High Court considered whether it had jurisdiction in an adoption petition involving two foreign nationals. In 2014, Ahmed successfully challenged a decision of the National Council for Higher Education of Uganda recalling a Kampala University Degree awarded to H.E the Governor of Mombasa, Kenya.
In 2016, Ahmed was part of the team that successfully represented His Excellency the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Presidential Election Petition No. 1 of 2016.
Ahmed has a Master of Laws from Makerere University with special emphasis on Climate Change in which he did his Thesis and teaches law at the Islamic University in Uganda. He also formerly taught law at the International University of East Africa until 2013. Between March of 2014 and April, 2016 Ahmed served as the General Secretary of the country’s Bar Association, the Uganda Law Society. He is also a member of the East Africa Law Society, the Pan African Lawyers’ Union and the International Bar Association.
Email: akalule@craneadvocates.com