THE PRACTISE

The firm’s practice areas are stated hereunder as follows:

Corporate Commercial

  1. Debt Management/recoveries/receivership.
  2. Financing (project, port folio and foreign) and Investment.
  3. Immigrations/Regulatory/Advisory.
  4. Banking/Mergers/Acquisition/Capital Markets.
  5. Telecommunications/Insurance/Taxation.
  6. Secretarial services/Legal Auditing/Advisory services.
  7. Corporate Re-structuring/Corporate Governance.

Intellectual Property

  1. Intellectual Property Portfolio Consultancy and Management.
  2. Searches, Acquisition, Protection, Enforcement, Transfer and Revalidation of trademarks, patents, design and copyrights licensing and technology (NOTAP).
  3. Product Registration (NAFDAC) (NCPC).
  4. Energy issues IP vs. Internet and E-commerce

Energy and Natural Resources

  1. Environmental Law and Community Relations.
  2. Regulatory Issues.
  3. Power Generation, Distribution and Metering.
  4. Solid Minerals/Water resources.

Real Estate and Property Management

  1. Estate Financing, Development financing.
  2. Conveyance, Drafting, Document Perusal.
  3. Perfections, Commercial Property Development.
  4. Property Management.
  5. Wills, Deeds, Gifts, Trusts

Aviation and Maritime

  1. Aviation, Regulatory and Aircraft financing.
  2. Aviation litigation,
  3. settlement and Arbitration.
  4. Shipping, Regulatory and financing.
  5. Admiralty and related issues

Sale of Goods

1. International Sale of Goods.

  • Letters of credit, financing, securities.
  • Bill of landing, Custom/Excise Duties.
  • Regulatory (TI, exemptions, waivers, etc)

2. Warranties, enforcement

3. Regulatory (SON, NAFDAC, etc).

4. Financing, contracting, carriage of goods.

5. Document perusal

Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

  1. General litigation in all courts in Nigeria.
  2. Arbitration, Conciliation, Mediation, Negotiation etc.
  3. Registration and enforcement of awards whether foreign or local, perfection of mediation and conciliation agreements and settlements etc.