Our FinTech practice area enjoys the benefits of our corporate dynamism, rich banking background, wide-ranging private equity experience and exciting telecommunications, media and technology practice. The FinTech team at our Firm is conversant with the various innovations and regulations in the ever-evolving financial services sector, and actively provides advice to clients in this space. We advise on crowd-funding projects, mobile lending services, payments transfer solutions, financial products with mobile or web-based applications, data privacy and data processing by FinTech entities, regulation of payment platforms and non-conventional payment systems, licensing of money transfer operators, cryptocurrencies and so on.

In the cryptocurrency space, we advise various local and foreign institutions on the regulatory framework for cyptocurrencies as well as the use of bitcoins, litecoin, onecoin and other forms of virtual currencies.  On the licensing front, we advise and assist clients in obtaining licences from regulators such as the Central bank of Nigeria, Money Lenders Registry and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).   We have also advised investors, including leading private equity houses on the acquisition of interest in FinTech companies, leveraging our extensive knowledge of the private equity sector on these deals.  Our clients include international and local banks, payment companies, card networks, private equity houses, mobile lenders, technology companies, and crowd-funding platforms.