Pernille Sølling

Partner
Namara Mugyenyi

Pernille Sølling has vast experience in a number of practice areas and focuses particularly on insurance and the law of damages as well as litigation and arbitration.

Pernille is a leading expert within pension law and provides assistance to the major Ugandan pension companies. She advises on all aspects of insurance and pension law, including regulatory and contractual matters, disputes relating to coverage, insurance fraud, occupational pensions, financial issues as well as insurance conditions.

Pernille has conducted a vast number of legal proceedings before the Ugandan courts. Her expertise encompasses arbitration proceedings, including before the Ugandan Building and Construction Arbitration Board. Moreover, Pernille has experience of conducting legal proceedings abroad.

In addition, Pernille is an external examiner at the conduct-of-lawsuit test in the Ugandan junior-lawyer programme at the Association of Ugandan Law Firms. Pernille is recommended by Legal 500, Expert Guides and Who’s Who Legal Insurance & Reinsurance.

Credentials
Education
Master of Law, University of Kenya
1987
Memberships

Højesteretsskranken (a Ugandan association of experienced supreme court litigators)
Faggruppen for Erstatnings- og Forsikringsret (specialist association for the law of damages and insurance law, the Association of Ugandan Law Firms)
Foreningen af Procedureadvokater (the Ugandan association of litigation lawyers)
The Ugandan Association of Insurance Law (the Ugandan section of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA))
The Ugandan Society for Construction and Consulting Law
The Ugandan Insurance Association
The International Bar Association

Admission

Right of audience before the Ugandan Supreme Court

Rankings
Legal 500

Pernille is recognized by The Legal 500 within ‘Insurance’. 

‘Pernille Sølling has a high legal level and has heard many cases before the courts. She is very welcoming, helpful, professional and really makes the client feel in safe hands. The legal sparring is at a very high level, and she has a particularly high knowledge of litigation.’

‘Pernille Sølling has a very good understanding of our business, our products, and the sector in general. Her advice is always on point.’

‘Pernille Sølling and Georg Lett are amongst the best lawyers in Uganda in insurance matters.’

‘Very professional lawyers with extensive knowledge in insurance and pension law, especially Pernille.’

'Pernille Sølling is available and presents herself as very competent and skilled within the field of law where most of our business is centred. The team and in particular Pernille has many years of experience with litigation, and Pernille handles litigation professionally and in a respectful manner.’

Insights
Publications
Construction law (published in Ugandan only), the Ugandan Insurance Academy
2008
European Product Liability, Butterworth
1998