MMAKS Advocates

Corporate Advisory & Banking and Finance

Fiona Magona Nalwanga is a Partner in the MMAKS Corporate team with over 15 years’ experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions cutting across corporate M&A, Private Equity, Energy, Mining and Natural Resources, Projects & Infrastructure, and general corporate commercial, regulatory and investment advisory. She is also the acting head of the firm's Banking and Finance Team where she advises leading financial institutions in Uganda and works on various financing projects.

Before becoming a partner at MMAKS Advocates in 2017, Fiona trained at AF Mpanga Advocates (Bowmans Uganda), where she worked as an associate. She later joined Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys in Johannesburg, after which she started at MMAKS Advocates as Senior Associate and then partner.

Fiona is consistently ranked by leading global law firm directories as a highly regarded lawyer (IFLR1000), a recommended lawyer (Chambers Global), and leading lawyer (Legal500). Fiona has been described by Chambers and Partners as highly efficient, effective and customer oriented. She was nominated in 2019 for Best Female Lawyer Private Practice Uganda Law Society, Women in Law Awards.

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Member- Uganda Law Society

Member- East Africa Law Society (EALS)

Master of Laws (Commercial Law)- Birmingham University, England

Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Bar Course)- Law Development Centre, Uganda

Bachelor of Laws (Hons.)- Makerere University, Uganda