Sim is a Partner at the Firm and serves as the Head of KATS’ Banking & Finance, Corporate & Commercial, Energy, Oil & Gas, M&A, Capital Markets and TMT practices.

Sim is widely acknowledged and internationally recognized as one of the leading transactional lawyers in East Africa. He boasts of over 25 years’ multi-jurisdictional practice experience having worked in New York in the USA, South Africa and Uganda.

Sim works collaboratively with global and emerging corporate leaders to execute complex transactions and achieve tax-efficient growth. Sim provides high-level insight into all aspects of complex transactions and brings clarity to time-sensitive and nuanced deals and issues.

Sim has worked closely with most of the leading commercial law firms in East Africa, South Africa and the United Kingdom including most of the magic circle firms and has developed an excellent working relationship with many of the key transactional lawyers in these firms. He is known for strengthening bargaining positions and moving deals forward by understanding interests of all parties and all moving parts of complex transactions.

Sim has structured, negotiated, and executed landmark multimillion-dollar deals and financial transactions in Uganda and East and sub-Saharan Africa in the fields of: Capital Markets, Banking & Finance, Technology, Media & Telecommunication, Insurance, Private Equity, PPPs & Project Finance, Energy, Oil & Gas and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Having handled some of the largest and most cutting-edge transactions in Uganda, Sim has become a go-to advisor for several local and multinational companies with new and unusually complex or large-scale transactions in the region.

Clients have come to rely on him to provide thoughtful analysis, plain English explanations of complex legal issues and to find creative solutions focused on overall business objectives.

Sim is licensed to practice law as an Attorney and Counsellor-at-law in the State of New York as well as an Advocate, Commissioner for Oaths and a Notary Public in Uganda.

Sim is also certified as a Commercial Arbitrator and Mediator by the Ugandan Center for Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (CADER).

Sim sits on the boards of local entities of several multinational companies in Uganda, he is a member of the Uganda Law Society’s Continuing Legal Education Committee and an external examiner and guest lecturer at the Law Development Centre in Kampala, Uganda.  He also spends a large amount of time mentoring and training young lawyers.

Memberships

• International Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• East African Law Society
• Uganda Law Society
• Uganda Arbitration Society

Publications

• ‘Investment Promotion in Uganda: Are Tax Holidays Real Incentives To Investment?‘ Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Bachelor of Laws degree of Makerere University.
• ‘Guide to Taxation in Uganda‘, IFLR Review 2006.
• ‘Gaining an understanding of Sarbenes-Oxley Act and its Implications in Africa’  2009

Languages

• English
• Luganda