Edgar Tabaro is a lawyer and senior partner at KTA Advocates one of the best renowned commercial law firms in Uganda has been appointed as a Special Envoy of the President of Sudan’s oldest political party UMMAA party. Upon this appointment, Tabaro will serve as the Mahdi’s special envoy in the East African region.
Edgar Tabaro possess over 20 years of experience in legal practice where he holds a Bachelor a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Makerere University, Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, LDC and LLM from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Edgar has had a distinguished career in academia as a Law School Dean, Senior Lecturer in Law with over 20 academic publications in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to this, he has been an external examiner at the Makerere Law School and the Bar Course at LDC.
Edgar Tabaro has also served on a number of boards including the Uganda Communications Commission, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation wherein he was its inaugural Managing Director and presently serves as Company Secretary of Agribusiness Development Center, a Rabo Bank entity in Uganda.
Edgar Tabaro specializes in Litigation, Construction Law, Commercial and Corporate law, Intellectual Property and Trade law. With this, he litigated and prosecuted ground-breaking litigation in intellectual property and commercial laws. He also has advised on various legislation on Intellectual Property in Uganda as the lead on behalf of Uganda Law Society and was retained by the EU to advise the Nigerian and Ghana governments on Geographical Indications for Pepa Yam, Kola nut and cocoa as well as kente clothe respectively. Edgar specializes in Intellectual Property, Corporate Law, Construction Law, Litigation and Trade Law.
The appointment came just a few months after the firm appointed him alongside Justus Karuhanga as its first senior partners where he became the firm’s Regional Practice head focusing on Business market entry in Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Kenya.
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