The firm offers clients its extensive experience in corporate and commercial law. Our corporate and commercial practice covers areas relating to the needs of companies, partnerships and sole proprietorships on asset purchases, sales, leases, agency, distributorship and other contracts related to operating business; public company floats and other capital raisings; private buyouts, takeovers, mergers, reorganisations and joint ventures. We advise companies on compliance with corporate legislations with respect to corporate governance, business law and stock exchange requirements, establishing and maintaining subsidiaries and affiliates of foreign companies in Nigeria; loan documentations, asset based finance, construction finance, equipment lease, project financing and leasing, debt instruments rescheduling; contentious and non-contentious liquidations, receivership, schemes of arrangement and reconstruction.
The firm provides a full range of company secretarial services which include: maintenance of statutory registers and minute books; preparing and giving notices of requisite meetings and minutes and resolutions thereto; filing annual returns and other returns for changes in directorship and shareholding, etc. We also advise foreign companies on entry strategies in Nigeria, while assisting them through government regulations and procedures for setting up their operations in Nigeria; procuring Business permits and Expatriate quotas; importation and exportation; immigration approvals; and other regulatory approvals.