Firm Overview
Mugalula & Omalla Advocates is one of the highly specialized law firms in Uganda
It’s our goal to provide our clients with affordable, practical and reliable legal and litigation solutions in labour & Employment law, Real Estate & Matrimonial Property, Corporate and tax advisory and foreign investments
Who we are
Mugalula & Omalla Advocates is one of the highly specialized law firms in Uganda and is committed to providing unparalled client service with outstanding results of exceptional value. It’s our goal to provide our clients with affordable, practical and reliable legal and litigation solutions in labour & Employment law, Real Estate & Matrimonial Property, Corporate and tax advisory and foreign investments. This specialist legal practice significantly reduces on the turnaround time for completing instructions given to us by our clients in the areas of property law, employment and corporate advisory and Tax.

Our Services
Matrimonial Property and Real Estate
Litigation
Employment and labour
Foreign investment
Corporate and Commercial
Knowing what the client wants Creates an efficient relationship
Our Team
The firm has six professional staff members comprising of three partners, a legal assistant and one legal clerk. The firm’s vision is to gradually add new professional staff members in order to ensure continued growth and efficiency. The firm’s professional staff is supported by support staff members.
John Mugalula – Was shortlisted for the Partner of the year 2021
Founding Partner
Omalla Deogratius
Founding Partner
Our Expertise
Corporate Law
Matrimonial Property and Real Estate
Employment and labour
As a result, the Firm has established a dedicated department offering our clients access to a dynamic employment practice that is able to manage the most complex situations.
Some of the services offered by our employment practice includes advising on, preparation and structuring of employment agreements, Defending client interests in the Industrial Court, Labour Officer and other Courts of Judicature to avert or manage the risk of potential reputational damage. Advising on employment or service provider relationships including outsourcing, benefits and leave, breach of employment contract, discrimination, and workers compensation among others.
We provide advice on preparation, review and bringing up-to-date of human resource policy manuals to ensure compliance with current labour laws and best practices in the hugely dynamic labour market. We also conduct annual training sessions to ensure effective compliance with the labour laws.
We advise employers in conducting intermittent employment audits as a proactive measure to ensure that their policies and practices are in compliance with applicable Ugandan laws.
We advise on restructuring and redundancies of staff during any merger and acquisition or for purposes of creating efficiency within the organization.
Litigation
We unceasingly advise clients on risk management and compliance issues in fields as diverse as real estate, commercial contractual relationships, and relationships between our clients and the regulators. We work with our clients to identify areas of potential legal risk exposure and to devise preventative management steps. We believe that our clients benefit from our lawyers’ commercial awareness. We therefore focus on specific industry sectors to ensure that our lawyers really understand each client’s business and offer relevant advice.