Godfrey Serunkuma Lule

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organisations, real estate and tax. The firm has had significant success under Lule, who is still working as of 2019, with the firm receiving numerous awards. In the 2014 IFLR1000's financial and corporate law rankings for Sebalu & Lule indicate that it is a Tier 1 financial and corporate law firm. The firm is also ranked as a Tier 1 energy and infrastructure law firm by the same legal directory. Sebalu & Lule was also ranked as a Band 1 Ugandan law firm in the 2014 edition of Chambers & Partners.

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Sebalu & Lule specialises in the following practice areas: banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and commercial law, commercial dispute resolution, projects and infrastructure, power (energy, oil and gas and mining), mergers and acquisitions, employment and pensions, non-profit

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Sebalu & Lule advises leading local and multinational organisations across the financial services, energy and infrastructure, insurance, telecommunications, construction, hospitality and leisure, private equity and processing/manufacturing sectors, several of whom are listed on the

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From 1952 to 1954, Lule attended Aggrey Memorial School. He worked briefly as a teacher following graduation, teaching at the Luwule Secondary School in Luwule Village in the Namaiba Parish in the Nakisunga Subcounty in the

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He kept a low profile in his first months in London, with news of his defection only being reported on 10 April 1977, and no mention was made in Uganda that he was missing and that he defected to the

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In 2005, Lule entered politics for a final time when he became the Bugandan attorney general when his long time ally Dan Muliika was appointed

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until July. During this time he was attempting to get his family to join him in London, avoiding the fate that other political spouses like

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and defected, becoming a prominent international critic of Amin. He went on to found the prominent Ugandan Law and Consulting firm

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where he urged the United Kingdom to stop allowing Idi Amin's "whiskey runs" where he would send cronies on flights to London's

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was planning on ousting and ultimately killing Lule, prompting Lule to leave the cafe where he was leaving and head directly to

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Airport to buy luxury goods for himself and supporters. He also worked for Hoskin and Company while in exile, working in

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was close to Lule. The Kabaka of Buganda is the title given to the King of Buganda, a subnational kingdom for the

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and the DLA Piper Africa Group. The firm's advocates are members of various professional bodies, including the

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nations to boycott Idi Amin and his regime, calling a press conference with ex-Minister of Health

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Pastoralists in Violent Defiance of the State: The case of the Karimojong in Northeastern Uganda

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In 1980, Lule formed the law firm and consulting group Sebalu & Lule with Paulo Sebalu.

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was driving the economy, leading him to appoint Godfrey Serunkuma Lule to be his successor.

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was deported and Ugandan citizens of Indian ancestry voluntarily left due to increased

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work consulting for the new Ugandan political leadership, especially working for the

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and urged them to censure Amin's crimes against humanity. He also appealed for the

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representative, although Lule refused to serve over the lack of transparency.

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Patel, Hasu H. (1972), "General Amin and the Indian Exodus from Uganda",

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Advocates and Legal Consultants is a Ugandan law firm headquartered in

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in Uganda and making all land in Uganda to be public land owned by the

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Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, London: G. Newnes,

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of Uganda. In 1993, he helped in negotiations to ensure that Kabaka

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politics from time to time throughout the 1990s and 2000s when the

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faced when their spouses fell into the ill-will of Idi Amin, with

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Pressing Problems in the Law, Volume 2: What are Law Schools For?

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from Idi Amin like former long-time Idi Amin Minister of Finance

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in 1963, when he began working for the State Attorney at the

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would be crowned, serving as his deputy attorney general.

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two years earlier, without even returning to his house in

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In March 1977, Lule was told over a lunch in Kampala that

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while Godfrey Serunkuma Lule returned from exile back to

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