Prisca Nagujja

Prisca is an Associate at MMAKS Advocates’ Banking and Finance team. She has a comprehensive banking and project finance practice ranging from advising international finance parties and local project companies on a variety of transactions falling largely under the power sector.

With over 5 years’ experience, Prisca has gained an in-depth appreciation of the needs of finance parties and project companies in project finance transactions whose structures are very nuanced. Her advisory experience includes structuring, negotiating, drafting financing documentation, preparing legal opinions, conducting high-level due diligences on project companies, and advising on land acquisition and the securitisation process.

Prisca also has considerable experience in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions which experience ranges from setting up corporate entities, drafting and reviewing of corporate transactions documents (such as share purchase agreements and shareholders agreements) and advising on structuring of transactions. She has also routinely advised various non-governmental organisations on their operations in Uganda, with an emphasis on employment, immigration, corporate and compliance aspects of their operations.

Prisca holds an upper-second class LL.B  (Hons.) degree from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre.

• Advocate, High Court of Uganda
• Member, Uganda Law Society
• Member, East Africa Law Society

• Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Law Development Centre, Uganda
• B (Hons.), Makerere University, Uganda

2021 – Date: Associate, MMAKS Advocates, Uganda

2020 – 2021: Senior Associate, Mukumbya Musoke Advocates, Uganda

Sept 2016 – Dec 2019: Associate, Mukumbya Musoke Advocates, Uganda

Feb 2016 – Aug 2016: Research Intern, Network of Republic Interest Lawyers, Uganda

Sept 2015 – Nov 2015: Legal Assistant, Legal Brains Trust/Center for Legal Aid, Uganda

May 2015 – Jul 2015: Clerkship, Supreme Court of Uganda

• Certificate of Recognition for Leadership, Africa Hall of Residence, Makerere University
• Certificate of Recognition for Leadership, Law Development Centre, Uganda

• Advising finance parties in connection with the proposed financing of Achwa Hydro Power Plant, a 43 MW Power Plant in Northern Uganda, including conducting a high-level due diligence on the project company and its operations, advising on the regulatory and corporate affairs of the project company and drafting and reviewing security and finance documents.
• Advising finance parties in connection with the proposed financing of Kikagati ugoye Hydro Power Plant, a 13 MW hydro power project in Kasese, Uganda, including conducting a high-level due diligence on the project company and its operations, advising on the regulatory and corporate affairs of the project company and drafting and reviewing security and finance documents.
• Advising finance parties in connection with the proposed refinancing of Bugoye Hydro Power Plant, a 16 MW hydro power project in South-Western, Uganda, including conducting a high-level due diligence on the project company and its operations, advising on the regulatory and corporate affairs of the project company and drafting and reviewing security and finance documents.
• Advising Ndugutu Power Company Uganda, the borrower, in connection with the financing of the Ndugutu Power Project, a 5.9 MW mini hydro power project in Western Uganda, including advising on regulatory, corporate, environmental and land-related affairs of the borrower; reviewing finance and security documents; advising on the borrower’s obligations and undertakings under the transaction documents.
• Advising Butama Hydro-Electric Company, the borrower, in connection with the financing of the Sindila Power Project, a 5.25 MW mini hydro power project in Western Uganda, including advising on regulatory, corporate, environmental and land-related affairs of the borrower; reviewing finance and security documents; and advising on the borrower’s obligations and undertakings under the transaction documents.
• Advising the East African Development Bank in connection with the financing of Mercantile Credit Bank, a Ugandan Tier II financial institution licensed by the Bank of Uganda, including drafting and reviewing the security documents and advising on the validity and enforceability of the securities taken in the transaction.
• Advising Q-Sourcing and Q-Training in connection with the acquisition of majority shares by Servtec International Group, including advising on the legality of the share acquisition and drafting and negotiating terms of the transaction documents.
• Advising classM France in connection with the acquisition of shares in Pure Grow Africa, a Ugandan agri-business company, including conducting a comprehensive due diligence on the target, drafting and reviewing of transaction documents and advising on the structuring of the transaction.
• Acting for a Ugandan private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of shares in a Ugandan geothermal energy company, including advising the fund on the legalities and necessary documentation required to effect the share acquisition and drafting and reviewing the transaction documents.
• Acting for Biyinzika Enterprises in connection with its sale of assets and shares in a Ugandan company to private equity fund, including reviewing the transaction documents and advising on the structuring of the transaction.
• Advising Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), Once Acre Fund, Global Health Corps, We Care Solar, Social Impact, Komo Learning Centres, Nama Wellness Center and Iowa State University, non-governmental organisations, in connection with their operations in Uganda, including advising on employment, immigration, corporate and compliance aspects of their operations.
• Advising Security Group Africa corporate group, including conducting a comprehensive corporate due diligence on the operations of the group and rendering corporate advice to the group.
• Advising various clients on land conveyancing matters.
• Advising finance parties in connection with the financing of a specialised hospital in Uganda, including advising on the issuance of promissory notes as security, drafting and review of finance and security documents.