Managing Partner
Rukia Adam
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Rukia is a Partner in the WCA Corporate team with over 15 years’ experience in investment advisory, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions cutting across corporate M&A, Private Equity, PPPs, Energy, Projects & Infrastructure, land transactions, general corporate commercial, governance and regulatory advisory.
She holds a 1st Class Master’s Degree in Business and Administration from the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute- Arusha (ESAMI), a law degree from Makerere University (Upper Second) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center. She is also an ICSA graduate from the Chartered Governance Institute, UK.
She also routinely handles legal due diligences, advises on corporate transactional structuring, negotiates local and cross border transactional agreements, commercial operational agreements. She has an impressive knowledge of the local regulatory and licensing frameworks and issues affecting local and foreign investors.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
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Advocate, High Court of Uganda
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Member, Uganda Law Society
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Member, East Africa Law Society (EALS)
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Graduate Member, ICSA
Education & Awards
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Master’s Degree in Business and Administration from the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute- Arusha, Tanzania
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Diploma in Legal Practice (Bar Course), Law Development Centre, Uganda
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LL.B (Hons.), Makerere University, Uganda
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Graduate, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, England
CAREER SUMMARY
2022 :
Partner, WCA Advocates
2021 - 2022 :
Acting Corporation Secretary, Uganda Investment Authority
2014-2021 :
Senior Investment Executive- Legal, Uganda Investment Authority
2008-2010 :
Legal Officer, Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd.