Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Protecting Your Rights, Defending Your Future

With corporate globalization, pluralistic legal systems, increased cooperation among regulators, socioeconomic, technological changes, present companies with puzzling legal challenges. We are well-positioned to advise on these issues, represent multinational clients and others, in national, cross-border litigation, international arbitration and mediation.
We collaborate with a network of lawyers across the country and abroad, and can handle different types of disputes, including international arbitration, and to help our clients achieve success. We are committed to resolving disputes as efficiently, speedily and satisfactorily as possible, focused on solutions that are practical and beneficial.

Real Estate

Protecting Your Property, Securing Your Future

We have a committed team of property lawyers, with a vast property and industry experience. They advise on the full range of real estate related transaction, from the initial acquisition, development, mortgage, construction, leasing, selling, tenancy, licence, other forms of equity interest, and dispute resolution. Our team are involved in all sections of the construction industry, working with public and private sector developers, funders, bankers, contractors, end-users and service providers.
Just like residential property purchase to an individual or a family. Commercial property is often one of the biggest financial commitments a business will make. Whether they’re leasing their first office or managing a portfolio of sites, negotiating preferable terms and understanding any risk or liability can be a challenge. You can rely on our commercial property lawyers to support your business, avoid slippery sloops, and help you achieve your commercial aspirations.
We support commercial landlords and commercial tenants, sellers, buyers, occupiers, funders, developers and investors across the country in all areas of commercial property law. We draw on the in-dept industry knowledge of our associates, with a practical, collaborative approach to problem solving. We understand that property is a vehicle to deliver our clients’ business strategy. We work with them to get the deal done.
From land investments, real estate developments, how to finance them, to places to work and live. Whether you are looking at offices, retail, industrial, logistics, hotels, residential, or any other type of building, renting, buying or selling, we can advise or assist.

Immigration

Helping You Build a Life with Security and Opportunity

We recognize that immigration and emigration is a two way traffic. With the opening up of the ECOWAS borders, increasing relaxation of visa requirements by many African countries, including the global movement of people and services, our immigration law practice has no border.
If your business ambition has no limits, why should your organization, operation or movement be restricted to one geographical area? Our Immigration Lawyers can provide bespoke advice to help unlock global possibilities. Our expert team of immigration lawyers offer comprehensive and considered advice to enable our clients to make informed choices. We strongly believe that our clients deserve the best; we take our responsibilities very seriously to ensure that client satisfaction is achieved by providing a professional yet friendly legal service. We aim to resolve all immigration matters brought to us by working diligently and together with our clients, keeping them informed of the progress of their case at all stages.
Using our extensive experience, we provide legal representation to business executives, private individuals, international corporations, investors and public companies on a wide variety of complex immigration issues. Our team’s expertise and legal experience ensure that our clients receive correct, concise and considered legal assistance regarding immigration and commercial law.
If it matters to our clients, it matters to us.

Energy & Natural Resourses

Trusted Legal Guidance for the Energy and Natural Resources Sector

We provide specialist advice across the full energy spectrum, including power, renewables, oil, gas, LNG, nuclear generation, mining, and energy transition. We vigorously support the Nigerian, and other African countries emerging nuclear capabilities, and their aspiration to enhance their clean energy mix.
We advise clients in the mining and metals sector on their complex mandates, helping them to grow, protect and transform their businesses, helping the host communities, the environment, and mitigating legal and regulatory risks.
We are committed to helping clients keep pace with market and regulatory developments. Whether it is in relation to greenfield developments, M&A, refinancing of equity assets or portfolios, we help our clients identify and manage risks by providing top tier legal advice, combined with local knowledge, to deliver the best outcomes for clients.

Power Sector

Comprehensive Legal Support for the Power Industry

We provide top-notch legal expertise in the power sector, including thermal power, energy networks, for national and international clients around the ECOWAS sub region, or within the West African Power Pool. We have the experience of advising on all aspects of major acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, trading and marketing, dispute resolution, regulation and market reform, competition/antitrust issues, environmental issues and public procurement matters.
Electricity supply is a fundamental growth driver, with inelastic demand in Nigeria. The establishment of the West African Power Pool presents tremendous opportunities for the development of the industry, and also the need for top quality legal service. We work with our clients, to actualize the maxim - let there be light.

Oil, Gas & Mining

Strategic Legal Solutions for the Oil, Gas, and Mining Industry

We advise on the various legal, financial and commercial issues associated with upstream, midstream and downstream developments in the industry. We have a group of acknowledged industry experts in oil and gas, offering depth of resource, local expertise and commitment to the key oil and gas operatives in the country, and elsewhere.
Our O & G lawyers provide a full spectrum service, across the breadth of the value chain, to various local and international clients, government agencies, logistics companies, environmental groups, oilfield support service companies, as well as banks, and other financial institutions.
Our O & G lawyers adapt their practice to match the trends shaping the industry. They have extensive transactional and regulatory energy experience, and are highly skilled in working together with clients, and securing the best outcome for them. They are also adept at advising on disputes when things don’t go as planned.

Our legal mining team work with lawyers across different jurisdictions, to collaborate, share knowledge, and advise on a broad range of issues, public private partnership, contractors, lenders, private equity investors, environmental protection, infrastructure, concession, off take agreements, and related matters.

Banking and Finance

Shaping the Future of Finance with Legal Expertise

Banking and finance is at the heart of every economy, providing the means to help businesses expand and investors grow. We have a multi-disciplinary crack team of lawyers on the banking sector, with background in finance, capital markets, regulation, tax, mortgage, capitalization, foreign exchange, litigation, with a large breadth and depth of experience working with Banks. We can be relied on for the breadth and quality of our regulatory advice. Our team advises on regulatory perimeter issues and the scope of regulatory permissions that firms need. We help our clients to comply with financial services legal and regulatory regime. Our lawyers are able to provide results driven commercial advice to banks on some of their most complex transactions, including M & A, loan syndication, project finance, insolvency, structured finance, trade finance, and to help them address some of their most challenging business issues.

Insurance

Securing Tomorrow with Strategic Insurance Law Expertise

Our insurance team of lawyers represent the full range of life and non-life firms, intermediaries, investors, and other key participants in the industry. They provide comprehensive, strategic solutions on regulatory issues, environmental risks, reinsurers, life, health, financial services, pension risks, disputes, and commercial matters.
Our lawyers work with insurers, brokers and policyholders to tackle challenges head-on, help clients assess and mitigate risk.
Our insurance team handle small domestic claims as well as extremely large, complex, international disputes. Coverage disputes can be settled through early pre-action negotiation, mediation. We take a commercial and pragmatic approach in seeking to resolve insurance disputes and will only suggest litigation where absolutely necessary.
When individuals and businesses suffer substantial losses, they will often rely on their own insurance policies, and those of third parties, to meet those losses. Unfortunately, disputes often arise about whether particular events or losses are covered by the relevant insurance policy and the way in which the insurer has handled the claim.
Whether you have significant experience of dealing with insurance disputes, or this is your first experience of litigation or dispute resolution, we can help you achieve your commercial objectives and minimize the impact of the dispute on your finances and business.

Media, Sport & Entertainment

Specialized Legal Support for the Media, Sport, and Entertainment Industries

Media, sports and entertainment, are among the most vibrant and exciting industries worldwide. We offer advise and assistance to Afro-beat musicians, athletes, footballers, clubs, Nollywood actors, movie producers, script writers, TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, digital streaming platforms, online publishers, broadcasters and other media practitioners.
Whether you are pursuing a record deal, football transfer deal, safeguarding intellectual property, managing content distribution and licensing, or addressing employment matters, sports related infrastructure, dispute resolution, we bring the clarity and confidence you need to act decisively.
The Media, Entertainment and Sports industries have experienced exponential growth over the last two decades, involving new technologies, diverse broadcasters, social media, investors, high profile clubs, sports organizations, regulators and government agencies. Our lawyers have an in-depth understanding of the growth drivers of media, entertainment and sport. And can satisfactorily help our clients to navigate the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities.
Whether you’re into football, basketball, tennis, boxing, track and field, TV, radio, film, music or social media, news outlet, rights holder, agency, financer, brand owner and more; we’re here to help you retain your edge.

Transportation

Helping You Navigate Legal Challenges in Transportation

Inter-modal connectivity is the direction of the global transportation industry, ensuring the linkage between, the highway, waterway, railway and airway. However you operate your transportation, shipping or logistics business, our multi-modal team of lawyers will work alongside you, keeping you ahead of market trends.
Our lawyers have expert local knowledge of the transportation industry, they offer practical solutions, and advise on many complex railway, waterway and logistics projects and transactions.
The transport and logistics industry is central to the evolution of an efficient Pan African market, and regional integration. It is also an industry with evolving legal and regulatory demands requiring advice and counsel that looks beyond the borders of a single country.
Through our many years experience working with leading transport and logistics companies, we have developed the industry knowledge required to provide sector-specific support.
Our transport and logistics specialists work closely with colleagues in our energy team, as well as other network of colleagues, within the West African sub-region and beyond.
Critical physical and commercial infrastructures are crucial to enable our clients to carry out their business in the transport and logistics sector.We support clients on all types of infrastructure investments, railway, road, jetty, port, and airport. Including terminals, storage, pipelines, and other utilities. Working from a detailed understanding of the infrastructure sector and its trends, we advise on the complex legal, commercial and technical aspects associated with its development, concession or operation.