About PATIENCE
Contact: +256 755 585 208, +256 778 551 449
Email: pkokunda@lawgicadvocates.com
Patience is the Partner at the firm in charge of the department of
Technology,
Media Law, Telecommunications and Intellectual Property.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Uganda Christian University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre.
Her practice encompasses a wide range of areas including:
Technology
law,
Advisory registration and management of various innovations,
Intellectual property law,
Media law, telecommunications law and general
legal advisory to local and international clients on the various fields
of the law. Patience is a registered Trademark Agent.
Patience is a member of the East African Law Society and the Uganda Law Society.
Patience experience includes:
Representing and advising a UK firm on the regulatory requirements
for entering into an oil investment joint-venture agreement with the
Bunyoro Kingdom and Uganda National Oil Company;
- preparing, completing and processing the registration of a lease for DON (U) Ltd, a leading Petroleum and Energy Company;
- advising Innovex (U) Ltd, a Ugandan Tech and Energy Company on compliance, investment and regulatory issues;
- acting for the Islamic Bank of Abu Dhabi to secure the Bank’s interest in Uganda under a credit facility of over USD 20 million;
- representing Soluxe International Limited, a Chinese company, with the Government of the Republic of China being the majority shareholder, in voluntary winding-up proceedings in Uganda;
She has also had experience in corporate matters including incorporation of local and registration of foreign companies, partnerships, Non-Governmental Organisations and other business associations, as well as their winding up and dissolution. She has facilitated the birth and growth of, especially, several start-up tech companies. She also provides legal advisory in Immigration Law and has advised several foreigners on the regulatory requirements for them to live, work or invest in Uganda..