Business Registration

Our specialists will advise you on everything necessary to open new businesses in Uganda. This includes guidance on finding business opportunities according to your needs and the establishment of corporations or the initiation of any commercial activity, always keeping in mind your legal and commercial responsibilities, requirements, paperwork, taxes, etc.

Depending on your needs, residents or foreigners can create corporations and start a commercial or investment activity in Uganda.


Benefits Of Registering a Company

  • Obtain legal Identity/status
  • Safeguard your business name by acquiring a trade name.
  • Access opportunities like loans, tenders, financing etc.
  • Business formalization creates more employment opportunities through business expansion.
  • Enables registration for licenses e.g Investment, trading and taxation licenses.
  • Better marketing and advertising opportunities for increased clientele
  • Improved competitiveness in the regional market


Benefits Of Registering a Document
Registered documents are admissible in the court of law since they have evidential value in the eyes of the law. This means that un-registered documents are not readily acceptable and admissible in a court of law.
Registered documents safeguard the interest of a buyer since they take effect against every un-registered documents relating to the same property. In other words, the registration of documents preserves the title of the buyer.
Registering your document puts it on the government record which renders credibility to the document and makes it a notice to the public at large in respect to the subject matter of the document.

  • Obtain legal Identity/status
  • Safeguard your business name by acquiring a trade name.
  • Access opportunities like loans, tenders, financing etc.
  • Business formalization creates more employment opportunities through business expansion.
  • Enables registration for licenses e.g Investment, trading and taxation licenses.
  • Better marketing and advertising opportunities for increased clientele
  • Improved competitiveness in the regional market


Registering a Document

Before you present a document for registration, please ensure that the major features of the document are clearly and properly represented on each copy of the document.
The document should be presented in triplicate (3 copies) and should be duly witnessed.


Certification of Documents

To have a document certified:

  • Present copies of the document to be certified;
  • Pay the certification fees; and
  • Hand in the documents and payment receipt at the Business Registry.