Practice Areas

Our services here cover the whole spectrum of the laws regulating contemporary commercial transactions. They include, among others, advising on and preparing both general and specialized commercial agreements covering such areas as:

• Intellectual property/copyright (registration, renewal, and defense of trademarks, patents, and designs).
• Buying and selling of goods
• Buying and selling of businesses
• International trade and investments
• Insurance, labor/employment, and consumer credit
• Partnerships and joint ventures
• Wills and gifts
• Intellectual property/copyright (registration, renewal, and defense of trademarks, patents, and designs).

We provide a wide range of services from the formation of companies to winding up including-

• Corporate finance – negotiation, preparation, documentation, and registration of debentures and debenture stock, shares and stocks, trust deeds (public issues), mortgages, equipment leases, syndicated and other loan agreements
• Banking and other financial transactions
• Taxation                                                                                                      
• Company secretarial services – attendance at and coverage of Board and General or committee meetings, general advice on the conduct of day-to-day operations (preparation of minutes, resolutions, and notices), filling of statutory returns, obtaining operational and pre-operational permits from Government and Government departments. We also conduct due diligence on companies and commercial entities, corporate searches and confirmation of records, and other corporate documentation kept at the Corporate Affairs Commission.

We offer a wide variety of services here including the following:

• Due diligence, searches, and confirmation/verification of titles to land;
• Buying, selling, and leasing real estate;
• Building contracts development leases; and
• Brokerage, licenses, and easements.

Our services in Litigation and legal resources cover the following:

• Courtroom advocacy: Under this head, we deliver high-quality services that cover cases relating to:
  • Constitutional and administrative law
  • Election petitions and related matters
  • Land matters
  • Chieftaincy and local succession matters
  • Family law and succession to estates
  • Matrimonial causes including divorce, separation 
  • Criminal law.
• Alternative dispute resolution/Arbitration
• Debt recovery
• Immigration and citizenship
• Legal Resources

We provide services in this area that range from negotiation to documentation of contracts for the carriage of goods by air and sea and the resolution of all disputes arising from the carriage of goods by air and sea, including speedy ship or aircraft arrests.

We also negotiate and prepare the documents for the sale, lease, and charter of aircraft and ships, and marine insurance.

Here we provide a comprehensive range of services to cater to the specific requirements of the players in the oil industry. These include:

• Detailed advice on the statutory and/or regulatory regime in and about the conduct of operations, petroleum tax, and other essential areas
• Negotiation and preparation of specialized oil services contracts
• General legal documentation

In this area of practice, we have continued to represent and conduct matters on behalf of departments of the government of both the federation and states and also parastatals of both the state and federal government in Nigeria. The areas of coverage include both civil and criminal litigation both as prosecuting as well as defense counsel. It also covers appellate practice and general legal practice and documentation.