Judith Maryanne Aboto

ASSOCIATE, INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT, ALP UGANDA

Practice Areas

Professional Qualifications and Memberships

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons), Makerere University.
  • Diploma in Legal Practice (Dip LP), Law Development Centre.
  • Member, Uganda Law Society.
  • Member, East Africa Law Society

Short Biography

Judith Maryanne Aboto is an Advocate of the High Court and all courts subordinate thereto. She is an Associate in the Infrastructure Business Department at ALP Advocates. She has great understanding and passion for corporate governance, energy, infrastructure, and technology law. She has ably advised clients on construction related disputes and represented them in courts of law. She also provides business set-up, compliance and transaction advisory to companies and investors in and out of Uganda. Her practice at the firm majors in strategic legal advisory and business support to companies in Corporate and Commercial Law, Infrastructure and Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, Procurement Law, Banking & Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employment Law, International Trade and Investment Law and transactions.

Top Matters

  • Advised and provided extensive legal support on high level corporate fraud and recovery.
  • Handled voluntary winding up processes and corporate restructuring for various clients.
  • Advised on three big corporations concerning a multi-billion-shilling merger.
  • Provided extensive advisory services to majority of the firm’s clients in relation to restructures and collective terminations.
  • Provided high level corporate governance advisory to public and private entities.
  • Advised on the set up and development of various technology applications.
  • Exposed to handling numerous public and private procurement disputes in Uganda.

Publications

Mediation Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Mediation Service provides the most advanced global rules intended to assist parties and mediators to take maximum advantage of the flexible procedures available in mediation for the resolution of disputes quickly and economically.
The Mediation Service guides parties that opt for Dispute Management Clauses in their project contracts wherein the parties to the contract can jointly appoint a mediator to work together, in a more collaborative and mutually beneficial environment and oversee that their contracts proceed smoothly.

Arbitration Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Arbitration Service is based on the most efficient Arbitration Rules which help the parties and arbitrator to use the best available global practice for the resolution of domestic and international disputes quickly and economically by way of administered arbitration on global standards.
Additionally, the Arbitration Service provides for the appointment of emergency arbitrators, which allows the parties in need of emergency interim reliefs to make such applications even before the constitution of the regular arbitral tribunal.

Conciliation Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Conciliation Service provides an impartial, fast and effective conciliation operating to a uniformly high standard in both the public and private sector.
Participation in the Conciliation Service processes is voluntary, and so are the outcomes.Solutions are reached only by consensus whether by negotiation and agreements facilitated between the parties themselves or by the parties agreeing to settlement terms proposed by the Hub Conciliation Officer who treats as confidential all information received during the course of conciliation and the service is informal and non-legalistic in practice.

Ombudsman Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Ombudsman Service is a confidential, impartial and informal service that facilitates the resolution of disputes. A Hub Ombudsman helps parties analyze problems and assists in identifying options and can, only if requested, become involved in trying to resolve issues.
What’s more, the Hub Ombudsman Service alert managements to systemic trends and issues and makes recommendations for necessary changes in their fields.