Corporate & Commercial Law
Our corporate practice group provides strategic legal advice and proactive support to our clients to help navigate a fast-changing and sometimes opaque regulatory environment. With our deep expertise and specialised skills, we pride ourselves on keeping our corporate clients ahead of evolving regulations for optimal business services. Our team provides comprehensive business advisory services, including guidance on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. We help clients to form corporations, companies, partnerships, joint ventures and incorporated trustees. We advise on direct foreign investments, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions including all aspects of divestments and liquidations.
The corporate and commercial practice lawyers in our Firm represent international and global companies together with their Nigerian subsidiaries in contracting and regulatory matters. We have completed a significant number of joint ventures and strategic alliances for corporations, investment firms and banks. We work through the complexities of each deal and provide comprehensive, strategic cum cost-effective counsel. We help clients maintain regulatory compliance, statutory reporting and record-keeping requirements. Our company secretarial services team helps our clients to comply with corporate governance codes, as well as giving advice and counsel regarding directors’ fiduciary and legal responsibilities.