Our commercial law practice covers joint ventures, agency, and commodities. We assist our clients to develop transaction strategy and structure, and to document their transactions.Read More

We advise clients on best vehicles for conducting their businesses in regulated industries and the requirements and policies regulating such industries. We provide a wide array of services to clients who seek to promote compliance standards and detect potential violations.Read More

We advise on banking relationships, credit and security, factoring and discounting, project finance, property finance, discounting of bills and other receivables, securitisations and other types of repackaging, securities and banking regulation.Read More

Our team of corporate lawyers reflects our much valued entrepreneurial approach to clients’ needs. Our corporate law team advises on business formation, incorporation, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, equity issues, corporate reorganisations, general company law, corporate governance and privatisations.Read More

At a recent workshop on “Nigeria’s Digital Economy and the Copyright System: Challenges and Opportunities for Strategic Growth in the Information Age”, several key issues bordering on the current and future course of copyright in Nigeria were discussed. The Google supported workshop which held at Southern Sun, Ikoyi Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria from 15-16 June 2015...Read More

Introduction Counterfeiting and Piracy are presently acknowledged as one of the greatest global threats to creativity. Counterfeiting is the act of unlawfully imitating or reproducing items/works protected by the law of trademarks, patents, or copyrights (Intellectual Property- IP), while portraying them as originals. This is usually represented in goods illegally bearing registered/well-known trademarks. Piracy on...Read More

Before the discovery of oil, the economy of Nigeria depended largely on agriculture. Upon the discovery of oil, the country’s attention shifted to oil exploration as the main driver of the economy, accounting for over 80% of the country’s foreign exchange earnings. The recent crash in global oil prices, resulting in dwindling oil revenue and...Read More

The complexity in the governance of corporations has continued to assume greater dimension as a result of the interplay between the directors, management, shareholders and the stakeholders. In Nigeria, corporate governance became a front burner in public discourse after the collapse witnessed in the Nigerian banking sector in the early 2000s. Consequently, industry regulators evolved...Read More

Introduction An independent assessment of the investment market will reveal that foreign investors are increasingly willing to invest in businesses run by Nigerians who have better understanding of the local terrain as opposed to setting up and running them personally. The last decade witnessed a meteoric rise in entrepreneurship and birthed several start-ups in Nigeria....Read More

Introduction Historically, commercial transactions were undertaken with the traditional perception of a market in mind and taxation of these market activities has been a source of government revenue. Global industrialization and efficiency in the factors of production and distribution of goods and service has significantly altered the primordial perception of a market from being a...Read More