Building legally investable SMEs across Uganda & East Africa.
The SME Legal Facility is a structured legal support platform by TASLAF Advocates — pairing growth-stage businesses with senior counsel, accelerators with curated programmes, and funds with embedded portfolio coverage.
We Are African. We Believe in African People, Markets, and Solutions.
Senior counsel, structured for the SME life-cycle.
The SME Legal Facility brings TASLAF's transactional, tax, compliance and disputes capability into a single, predictable engagement model designed for businesses that don't yet have in-house counsel — and for the funds and accelerators investing behind them.
We believe African SMEs deserve the same quality of legal counsel as the multinationals operating beside them. The Facility makes that possible.
Why SMEs stall on the path to capital.
Investor-Ready Gaps
Most growth-stage SMEs lack the corporate, governance and contracting hygiene investors require before deploying capital.
Cost of Quality Counsel
Top-tier legal advisory is priced for large corporates — leaving SMEs to rely on ad-hoc, fragmented and reactive support.
Regulatory Complexity
Tax, employment, data protection and sector regulation evolve faster than SMEs can build internal compliance capacity.
Founder Bandwidth
Founders absorb legal risk personally and lose weeks navigating filings, disputes and structuring decisions alone.
Disputes & Recoveries
Unresolved commercial disputes, debt recoveries and employment claims quietly erode enterprise value.
Fragmented Ecosystem
Accelerators, funds and portfolio companies have no single, accountable legal partner across the SME lifecycle.
One Facility. Four integrated service pillars.
Pillar 1
Legal Health & Investor Readiness
Get every SME to a documented, defensible, investable baseline.
Get every SME to a documented, defensible, investable baseline.
"Success rate on tax audit and dispute resolution mandates handled by the TASLAF tax team."
Three SME segments. One Facility.
Growth-Stage SMEs
Annual revenue USD 100K – 2M · 5–50 staff · scaling product or geography
- →Founders preparing for first institutional cheque
- →Companies formalising governance and contracting
- →Teams ready for quarterly compliance discipline
Investment-Stage SMEs
In active fundraise · term sheets on the table · Series Seed / Pre-A
- →Cap table cleanup and equity restructuring
- →Investment documentation and negotiation
- →Regulatory and sector licensing closure
Portfolio Companies
Backed by a fund, accelerator or DFI · need a long-term legal partner
- →Embedded counsel across the portfolio
- →Standardised reporting to investors
- →Coordinated tax, legal and disputes coverage
Three ways to partner with The Facility.
Acceleration Programmes
Become the named legal partner for an accelerator or incubator cohort, delivering structured clinics, templates and 1:1 office hours.
- Cohort-wide Legal Health Clinics
- Curated SME contract templates
- Quarterly office-hour windows
- Joint reporting to programme funders
Funds & Portfolio Support
Embed TASLAF as outside counsel across an entire portfolio with consistent commercial terms, SLAs and reporting.
- Portfolio-wide retainer pricing
- Single point of accountability
- Quarterly portfolio risk reporting
- Dedicated transaction support
DFI & Impact Investors
Partner with TASLAF on facility design, ecosystem grants and structured technical-assistance programmes for SMEs.
- Facility & TA programme design
- Ecosystem-level diagnostics
- Co-funded SME legal subsidies
- Policy advocacy and convenings
Ready to make your SME legally investable?
Book a discovery call with a TASLAF partner, or request a Legal Health Assessment to benchmark where your business stands today.