MMAKS Advocates

Commercial Transactions

Apollo Nelson Makubuya is one of the founding partners of MMAKS Advocates. He heads the Commercial Transactions team. With 26 years in legal practice, he specialises in corporate and commercial transactions including company incorporation, governance and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions in various fields such as banking, insurance and oil and gas.

Apollo trained at Katende, Sempebwa & Co. Advocates, Uganda as a legal assistanst, after which he worked as the company secretary and manager, Legal Department, Sembu Uganda (now Allied Bank), and later company secretary of the Cotton Devlopment Organisation. Apollo went on to become a partner at Central Law Offices, Uganda, after which he co-founded MMAKS Advocates as partner in 2005.

Apollo is a former Chairman of Equity Bank Uganda and is the current Chair of Prudential Assurance Uganda Ltd. He has previously worked as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law Makerere University.

He is the Senior Palace Advisor to Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and has served in many senior capacities in the Kingdom of Buganda including as Deputy Katikkiro, Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

English

Board chair- Prudential Assurance Uganda Ltd

Member- Uganda Law Society

Master of Laws- Cambridge University, England

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)- Makerere University, Uganda