Joel Cox Advocates
Attorneys at law
Our business is understanding yours!
Land & Real Estate Law
​Our clients include entrepreneurs, investors, developers, landowners, borrowers, banks, institutions and charities. We act for private investors, developers and entrepreneurs . We advise non-profit institutions with the influx of international private wealth into the Uganda commercial property market in recent years, we have seen the private investor competing with the major institutional funds for investment opportunities. We cater for the particular needs of those private investors including tax efficient structuring and the level of private client services they demand.
Practice Areas
Joel Cox Advocates provides a variety of professional legal services that are appropriate to the legal and commercial regimes in Uganda.These include but are not limited to the services as under:
Company Law Practice (Commercial transactions).
The Firm’s most active line of business is in the area of Company Law and Practice with specific emphasis on best practices in commercial transactions. The area of practice includes, but is not limited to the following aspects of corporate and/or commercial law.Company Register searches; registration, filing, certification, and verification of documents for bank purposes and other commercial transactions. Formation of business entities, partnerships, Associations, Funds, Companies and Charitable Organization, NGOs; Incorporation of Business Entities and advisory services on various types of business associations and the requirements for incorporation and/or registration of local and foreign companies; Obtaining immigration Visas and Work permits for foreign investors, employees, and immigrants. Preparation of Joint Venture Agreements, take-overs and sales of commercial entities and businesses; Licensing and Franchising of Agreements; Proffering of brokerage services in respect of all commercial transactions. Legal counsel on all corporate matters; Full company secretarial work including attendance of Board meetings; preparing Board Resolutions, Preparation and filing of relevant company forms, due diligence, arbitration, and mediation. Provision of counsel on appropriate insurance range coverage, including choice of insurance provider;
Family Law (Domestic relations)
The meaning of Family Office is still fluid. A family office may be an entity set up to run a family's affairs which has separate legal personality from the family. It may just be a place where the family administers its affairs or it may be a network of employees and advisors in a number of different places who work together to run the family's investments.
Immigration law
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​Our immigration team has decades of experience advising multinational private and public companies and start-ups in all business sectors. We assist our corporate clients with: Devising an immigration strategy to transfer key executive, managerial and essential employees to existing or newly established offices anywhere in the worldAssuring compliances with applicable immigration and labor regulationsFacilitating issuance of visas and entryAdvising on tax implicationsManaging transition from temporary visas to permanentConducting internal audits and representing clients in government audits As with representing clients on personal immigration matters, our team is able to coordinate the delivery of the highest level of multi-disciplined professional services in conjunction with Withers’ partners in any of our international offices.
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