Rebecca Muheki Ruhunde

ASSOCIATE, CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL 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 African Law Society.

Short Biography

Rebecca Muheki Ruhunde is an Advocate of the High Court and all courts subordinate working with the Corporate and Commercial department. She routinely advises the firm’s clients on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, ranging from regulatory advisory, corporate governance, attending to routine filings, structuring different commercial transactions and preparing commercial documents.

Through her work with the Corporate and Commercial team, Rebecca has amassed extensive knowledge and specializes in the fields of business setup and advisory, corporate compliance, insolvency practice, intellectual property, employment law, immigration law, Equity financing and corporate governance.

Top Matters

  • Part of the team that offered legal advisory on the winding up processes for the firm’s top clients.
  • Provided legal advisory and business set up services as well as all round legal trainings to over thirty startup companies that were part of a program funded by Stanbic Business Incubator and the French Embassy in Uganda. This included undertaking the whole process of registering the companies and advising them on all the necessary compliance requirements for business. This also included obtaining the necessary licenses as well as conducting trainings on contracts, intellectual property and corporate governance.
  • Advised on a merger of three multi-millionaire companies for one of the firm’s top clients. This involved preparation and registration of the requisite corporate documents at the Company’s registry and obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals for the amalgamation.
  • Team lead on several land transfer matters for the firm’s major clients with a total value of over UShs 10 bn.
  • Provided extensive advisory services to majority of the firm’s clients in relation to restructures and collective terminations.
  • Advised on indigenous, local and foreign Non-Governmental and Charity Organizations on registration requirements to operate 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.