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Ruth Sebatindira

Ugandan corporate and tax lawyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ81306294
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Ruth Sebatindira is a Ugandan corporate and tax lawyer who, effective January 2020, was the administrator of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL), a government-owned telecommunications company, under court administration since April 2017. She concluded her administration of UTL in November 2022 when she handed over to Evelyn Anite, the State Minister for Privatization, representing the new shareholders following the rebrand of UTL to Uganda Telecommunications Corporation Limited (UTCL).

Background and education

Ruth Sebatindira was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1973.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, obtained from Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university. She also holds a postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, awarded by the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Her Master of Laws degree was obtained from the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom.

Career

Sebatindira was called to the bar in 1997, and started her career as an associate at Kalenge, Bwanika, Kimuli & Company, Advocates in Kampala, where she worked for five years. She then worked at Deloitte Uganda as Senior Tax Advisor until 2003, when she founded Ligomarc Advocates. She is the partner in charge of tax and infrastructure at Ligomarc Advocates.

In 2003, Sebatindira founded Ligomarc Advocates, a Kampala-based law firm, as a solo practice.

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“Ruth Sebatindira” enters the record as ugandan corporate and tax lawyer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ruth, Sebatindira and Ugandan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q81306294. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2017, 2022 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from Ruth Sebatindira” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.