Under corporate and business services, we provide clients with the following services;

• Business formation
• Risk management
• Corporate restructuring
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Takeover
• Business Establishment services
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Securities Regulations
• Business sales purchase
• Due diligence
• Secretarial, corporate governance and compliance
• Technology transfer
• Attendance of meetings
• Corporate governance
• Company registration
• Registration of foreign companies
• Share conversions
• Reinstatement of entities
• Filing annual returns
• Deregistration of entities among others

We provide full function company secretarial services, including:

• Maintaining company registers
• Allotment and transfer of shares
• Maintaining and retaining statutory records
• Director training
• Statutory record audits
• Meeting packs and minute taking.
• Notification of company detail change

At KIYN Advocates, we recognize that the human resource needs of our clients may sometimes be well met by a cross border labor force and expatriates. As such, our lawyers are dedicated to obtaining work permits for expatriates normally employed by our clients and handling all immigration-related work and procedural challenges that may arise.

• Bankruptcy filing
• Handling cases on behalf of liquidators and receivers
• Consultancy on bankruptcy and insolvency
• Advising secured and unsecured creditors on various aspects relating to claim against companies under bankruptcy.
• Secured and non-secured loans collections
• loan restructuring and rescheduling
• debt recovery litigation in the Magistrates Courts and High Court
• receiverships and corporate insolvency
• foreclosures
• investigations and asset-tracing
• general debt recovery consultancy

• Due Diligence
• Contract Management
• Design, Review and Supervision
• Cost Management
• Third Party advisory services
• Third Party Procurement of goods and services

• Drafting construction contracts
• Advising on the implementation of construction contracts, issuing of formal notices, processes to be followed, extensions of time and the like
• Recovery of amounts due under interim and final payment certificates

We provide intellectual property services including advice on and registration of;

• Trademarks, copyright, patents, trade secrets and domain names.
• Supply licensing and maintenance of software, technological transfer and franchising agreements.

We provide tax related advice in how to manage and where necessary avoid tax in in areas of;

• Income tax
• Vat
• Customs duty

We also create tax schemes for our clients.

• Real estate
• Property management
• Conveyances
• Registration of legal interests in land including but not limited to preparing and lodgment of transfers, caveats, leases and subleases, licenses, mortgages and other forms of conveyances;
• Conducting searches at land registries/offices;
• Physical inspection of boundaries on site, and at the Maps and Surveys Department at Entebbe,
• Interpretation of survey data;
• Negotiating and preparing the sale of land agreements;
• Preparation of powers of attorney;
• Processing of special certificates of title, substitute pages & subdivisions
• Easements

We leverage the experience and expertise of all our separate practice areas to serve our non-profit organization clients, and we are especially strong in key areas of concern for non-profit entities such as corporate registration, NGO permit processing, regulatory compliance, employment, and employee benefits advisory, corporate immigration, tax, commercial contracts, real estate, and dispute resolution.

We also assist non-profit organizations to address delicate regulatory compliance obligations imposed by the National Bureau of Non-Governmental Organizations, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, the Uganda Revenue Authority, and the National Social Security Fund.

As part of our practice in this area, we offer the following services:

• Incorporation of local and foreign non-governmental organizations with the National Bureau of Non-Governmental Organizations;
• Procuring permits to operate as a non-governmental organization for both local and foreign non-governmental organizations from the National Bureau of Non-Governmental Organizations;
• Incorporation of non-profit entities as companies limited by guarantee under the Companies Act 2012;
• Renewal of permits to operate as a non-governmental organization in Uganda for both local and foreign non-governmental organizations;
• Procuring tax-exempt status for non-governmental organizations;
• Completing statutory filings on behalf of non-profit entities with either the National Bureau of Non-Governmental Organizations or the registrar of companies;
• Providing legal advisory on aspects of employment and pensions, corporate governance, contract drafting and management, corporate immigration, non-governmental organizations’ taxation, intellectual property and real estate;
• Acting for non-governmental organizations in contentious and non-contentious dispute resolution matters.