Corporate Law Services | Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt

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 form corporations, partnerships and joint ventures including unincorporated ventures. We advise on foreign investments, regulatory compliance, all aspects of regulatory compliance and divestments and liquidations.

We help clients and 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. Our corporate and commercial practice teams are in our offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt in Nigeria, Africa with senior level partner oversight in all our locations.

We invite you to contact Oghogho Makinde (Lagos) and Joke Aliu (Abuja) for further information.

Corporate Services SUBPRACTICES

Company or Joint Venture Formation

Our corporate and commercial practices represent international and global companies and their Nigerian subsidiaries on company formation, contracting and regulatory matters.

Our team has completed a significant number of joint ventures and strategic alliances for corporations, investment firms and global banks. We work through the complexities of each deal, and we provide comprehensive, strategic and cost-effective counsel.

Company Secretarial

Companies today operate in a challenging climate of increased regulation, heightened disclosure and more stringent enforcement in Nigeria and worldwide. Our expert team focuses on the specific needs of our clients, which include a vast array of multinationals in all the major industry sectors. We ensure our clients are in compliance with laws and regulations, and guide directors in complying with their fiduciary responsibilities.

In addition to providing corporate secretarial services, we regularly counsel boards and senior executives on a full range of corporate governance issues, regulatory and internal investigations, litigation avoidance, director and officer liability and insurance, executive compensation, board committee issues, ethical codes and best practices.

Franchising and Distribution

Regardless of industry sector, our expert corporate and commercial lawyers understand that, for many clients, franchising is an optimal, profitable and efficient route for growth. We effectively guide our clients on issues such as risk management, partner due diligence and selections, as well as compliance with a myriad of regulations and laws across multiple sectors.

We leverage our extensive experience to provide our clients with leading-edge corporate and commercial law advice. Our client portfolio includes multinational hospitality, luxury skincare and healthcare, leading multinational corporations and investors in energy, technology, cosmetics, automotive, fashion, food and beverages.