David Kaggwa is an international arbitrator, adjudicator, FIDIC Certified Trainer, and construction lawyer with over 20 years’ experience representing clients and serving as a neutral to resolve or avoid complex disputes involving major commercial, infrastructure, power, and construction projects. Mr Kaggwa is an experienced construction lawyer who advises clients and acts as an arbitrator, mediator, or adjudicator on most international construction contracts. He is well known as a FIDIC expert.
David Kaggwa serves on Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Boards (DAABs). His FIDIC experience is wide-ranging, including advice on design-and-build and turnkey contracts for highways, bridges, hydro power plants, and general construction. Mr Kaggwa has acted as Counsel and Arbitrator in several commercial arbitral disputes under the major arbitration rules, including the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL Rules) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). David has delivered arbitral awards, all of which have been enforced by the Court.
David Kaggwa is the Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Uganda Chapter, the Founder and Executive Director of the Construction Law Institute, and a Senior Partner at Kaggwa and Kaggwa Advocates. This 30-year-old law firm is Uganda’s pioneer and leading specialist in International Construction Law and Commercial Arbitration.
David Kaggwa is a FIDIC trainer at the University of Botswana, a visiting lecturer at the Law Development Centre, the postgraduate bar course training centre of the Government of Uganda, and the Founder, Executive Director, and Head of Faculty at the Construction Law Institute, a training institution for construction practitioners.
Mr Kaggwa is a regular trainer at the Africa Construction Law Academy, in partnership with King’s College London and the HKA. He regularly trains in FIDIC Contracts for the Gaborone City Council in Botswana, the East Africa Law Society, the Uganda Law Society, the Uganda Society of Architects, the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and all four Africa Construction Law Conferences, as well as delivering a variety of in-house and ad hoc lectures for institutions such as the Uganda Revenue Authority, the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers and the National Social Security Fund.
David Kaggwa is the author of “Arbitration and the Courts: How National Courts Deal with Arbitration.” In February 2025, Mr Kaggwa launched the first-ever Construction Law Digest in Africa, a compendium of construction-related disputes and their solutions, published by the Construction Law Institute. He has been widely published in construction law and dispute resolution by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners (UK), the University of Botswana, and the Botswana Institution of Engineers.
Mr Kaggwa is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), a Fellow of the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners (FICCP), a Fellow of the Construction Law Institute (FCLI), a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (USA), a member of the Society of Construction Law (UK), a member of the Society of Construction Law for Africa (South Africa), a member of the International Bar Association, a member of the East Africa Law Society and a member of the Uganda Law Society. Mr Kaggwa is an accredited mediator of the High Court of Uganda and an Arbitrator and Adjudicator empanelled by the Centre for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (CADER), the Kigali Centre for International Arbitration (KIAC), and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
David Kaggwa holds a Master of Laws Degree in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Makerere University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. He is an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature of Uganda, a Commissioner for Oaths, and a Notary Public.