Pheona N Wall SC

Personal Bio

Job Title: Managing Partner

Areas of Expertise:

Pheona Wall is Senior Counsel, Advocate, Notary Public, Arbitrator, and certified Insolvency Practitioner with a Bachelors’ Degree in Law, a Diploma in Legal Practice, and an MBA in Management. She is a governance expert and an institutional development expert with over 17 years’ experience in the water, telecom and legal sectors currently serving as the CEO of the League of East African Directors. She is passionate about Regional Trade and is a Director of the East African Business Council.

She is the immediate past President of the Uganda Law Society, the General Secretary of the Pan African Lawyers Union and a Council Member of the Common Wealth Lawyers' Association.

Pheona has also served as a Council Member of the Judiciary Council and also sat on the ICAMEK and CADER Arbitration Center Boards and is currently the Vice Chairperson of the Advisory Council of Efficacy Methodology, an African Policy Think Tank.

For 9 years she served as the Head of Legal at National Water and Sewerage Corporation and also served as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Kampala International University for five years.

She is a member of the Arbitration and Africa Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

Pheona is an executive leadership coach who trains Boards in Governance under the Institute for Corporate Governance Uganda, CEOs under the CEO Summit and young leaders under the Fidelis Leadership Institute (which she founded in 2019).

Pheona was awarded the Hague Institute for Innovations in Law “2018 Talent to Watch” award and is a two time awardee of the New Vision 40 under 40 awards for 2018 and 2020 and the French German Elysees Peace and Reconciliation Award in 2021 for her efforts towards fighting for the Rule of Law in Uganda.
She was awarded as one of Africa's Top 50 Leaders by the African Law Tech Festival in 2020.
A resource in both private and public enterprises with thorough knowledge and hands-on experience in institutional development, change management, public relations, energy, oil and gas, company secretarial practice, labor law, Pheona combines a solid corporate legal background with a well-developed understanding of both commercial and operational drivers of business. She is regularly retained by both local and foreign investors and has played an advisory role in two joint ventures on the Tilenga Project.
She is an ardent advocate for ethical leadership under her mantra, "Faithful Available Teachable "