What we do
Our Practice Areas
Smart solutions, stronger brands — pragmatic legal and business services that enable individuals, entrepreneurs and companies achieve their legal aspirations and become viable, thriving and competitive brands.
Business Formation & Corporate Restructuring
Entrepreneurs and business owners must make early decisions about the structure of their businesses — sole proprietorship, partnership, company limited by shares, unlimited company, or company limited by guarantee for non-profit causes. Deciding on the appropriate structure from the start determines responsibilities such as business permits, expatriate quota and post-incorporation filings, and shapes how you manage tax liabilities, risk ownership, privileges and restrictions.
We combine our business formation practice with corporate restructuring strategies that enable existing businesses evolve their models, operations, structures or financial spending — through legal, turnaround, cost and repositioning restructuring, spin-offs, divestments, mergers and acquisitions. Whether you are an emerging SME or scaling into a mature company, we help you plan transitions and develop exit strategies through transfer of ownership, restructuring or corporate succession.
Project Finance
Nigeria is witnessing an influx of startups in technology, power and mining — projects that require large-scale external finance involving security structures and registration processes throughout the project life cycle. These major transactions require stakeholders to optimise opportunities whilst minimising risk, with seasoned advisors who understand what governments, financial institutions, credit agencies and sponsors require.
Our team has developed the expertise and reputation for complex local transactions. We provide more than local legal advice — we combine it with global best practice and business, strategic and cultural counsel, structuring, negotiating and documenting project and financing agreements customised for our local jurisdiction, alongside risk-management advice.
Technology & Media Law
As technology and media integrate into our individual and commercial endeavours, we provide the legal support that authors, creators and innovators need — while collaborating with regulators to enable innovation and transfer of technology in and out of Nigeria. Our practice covers IP protection, anticompetitive practices, new media, blockchain and cryptocurrency assets, privacy and cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance for early-stage companies, M&A, fundraising and dispute resolution.
Our lawyers have represented clients in matters spanning financial technology, the digital economy, source code, software, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing — and provide strategic advisory to entertainment, music, film, television, broadcasting, digital media, publishing, gaming and internet services organisations.
Intellectual Property Law
Our IP Practice Group provides a full bouquet of commercial and legal services covering IP administration, commercialisation and dispute resolution: registration and enforcement of IP interests, acquisitions and divestments of IP assets, joint ventures and joint development arrangements, research and development agreements, securitisation of IP in debt transactions, technology, data and digital services agreements, portfolio development advisory, due diligence, internet and new media protection, and brand watch.
Our team of seasoned lawyers with expert legal and technical credentials works with stakeholders in manufacturing, media, advertising, creative arts, life sciences and technology, and fosters relationships with IP regulators to deliver relevant, timely assistance.
Property Law
Our property law practice encompasses business and commercial transactions in real estate development, construction, expansion of business operations, merger and acquisition of realty, and land or property required by financial institutions for loan documentation or mortgage.
We also act on energy and natural resource projects for clients acquiring or using land for mining, oil and gas, power and renewable energy plants — including drafting and review of conveyance instruments and perfection of titles.
Legislative Oversight & Governmental Activities
Our LOGA practice group engages with legislators at the state level to influence laws and policies in education. We have served the Lagos State government as facilitators and through social enterprise initiatives — training young adults and university students in the soft skills required for the workforce, business plan writing and sales pitching.
Our services extend to proposing and tracking bills on spousal and child maintenance, inheritance rights of adopted children, civil partnership, surrogacy and foster-adoptive provisions — creating legal structures for family law realities that have emerged in Nigerian society — alongside publications and thought-leadership engagement.
Emerging Practice Areas
Our emerging practice group focuses on research and development, registration and commercialisation in manufacturing and the life sciences — biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dietary supplements, foods, cosmetics and environmental agents — with growing proficiencies in franchising, employment, medical negligence and corporate governance.
We have also developed our competition law repertoire for manufacturers and producers of medical and pharmaceutical goods — market authorisation, IP licensing, government affairs and anticompetitive practice advisory — and provide Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advisory to private stakeholders investing in capital-intensive projects.
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