Kefa is the managing partner of Maples & Associates Advocates and the firm’s point man on matters to do with energy & environment and banking & finance.
Kefa is an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature with over fourteen (14) years of experience. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in law (with honours) from Makerere University and a Diploma in legal practice from Law Development Centre. He is an LLM candidate in Environment and Energy Law at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Kefa has previously worked with two international financial institutions as in-house counsel where he built experience in all types of financing; secured and unsecured, syndicated loans, acquisition financing and project finance. He eventually joined private legal practice where he advised a number of financial institutions and investment funds in regard to their lending portfolios.
It is during this transition that Kefa reignited his interest for the environment. To that end, Kefa has advised on a number of renewable energy projects and he is retained as legal counsel by the renewable energy association and sector players. He is very keen on climate change and the energy transition, and other mechanisms being put in place globally to curb climate change.
Kefa is also a Commissioner for Oaths and Notary Public.
He has previously served on the Board of Y-Save Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society Limited, one of the largest cooperatives in the country.
- Education
- Candidate, Master of Laws in Environment and Energy Law, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Law Development Centre, Uganda
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Makerere University, Uganda
- Professional Memberships
- Uganda Law Society
- East Africa Law Society
- Trainings
- Key Essentials: The Sustainable Development Goals and the Law - an online short course organised by the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2023
- Sustainable finance – an introduction to the LMA’s green, sustainable and social loan principles, a one day training and seminar organised by the Loan Market Association based in London, United Kingdom held in Kampala, Uganda, 16th August 2022.
- Green Banking Africa: Capacity building on Green Energy and Climate Finance – a five months intense online training by RENAC Renewables Academy, Berlin Germany, November 2021 – April 2022.
- ALSF Academy Workshop: Negotiations of Complex Contracts – a two days regional training organised by African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) at the African Development Bank held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 26th – 27th February 2020
- Project Finance Master Class, 2018 – a three days regional training organised by Covington & Burling LLP, Kaplan and Stratton Advocates, Fieldstone Africa and Power Africa held in Nairobi, Kenya 4th – 6th June 2018
- Public Private Partnerships and Project Finance Master Class, 2014 – a one-day training organised by the Law of Society of England and Wales supported by UK Trade & Investment, Law 2020 and Uganda Law Society held in Kampala, Uganda 12th September 2014
- Certificate in Project Planning, Management and Implementation, 2007 – two weeks training organised and facilitated by International Law Institute - African Centre for Legal Excellence, Kampala with support from the Austrian Development Agency in June 2007
- Articles/Publications
