Our Practice areas
OUR PRACTICE AREAS
Corporate and Commercial Practice Group
Our Corporate and Commercial group offers a wide range of specialized services covering sectors such as Banking & Finance, Intellectual property, Real Estate, Capital Markets, Entertainment and general Corporate/Commercial advisory within varied markets and industries.
Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group
Our Energy Group handles major oil and gas transactions (upstream and downstream), covering the value chain, power, mining, industry taxation and other related corporate and commercial transactions.
Dispute Resolution Group
The Dispute Resolution Practice Group is focused on civil, corporate and commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
PRACTICE AREA SCOPE
Corporate and Commercial Group
- Banking
- Insurance
- Real property
- FMCG
- Maritime
- Aviation
- Power
- Construction
- Telecommunications
- Mobile Applications and New Technology
- Intellectual Property
- Media and Entertainment
- Immigration Services
- Foreign Direct Investments
- Labour and Employment
- Tax
- Insolvency and Debt Recovery
- Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Finance
- Project, Asset and Development Finance
- Private Equity Financing
- Corporate Advisory (mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, corporate restructuring)
- Due Diligence
- Regulatory Compliance
- Corporate Governance
- General Commercial Advisory
Energy & Natural Resources Group
- Licensing
- Regulatory and country-entry issues
- Local content compliance
- Reserve-based lending
- Project finance including financing for marginal fields and securitisation of receivables
- Advisory on Oil & Gas contracts and transactions (upstream, mid-stream, and downstream) including, Joint Operating Agreements, Production Sharing Contracts and Technical Services Agreements
- Liquefied Natural Gas Projects
- Acquisition finance
- Mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and assets disposals
- Power and oil and gas related arbitration and litigation;
- Farm in, farm out and joint venture arrangements
- Re-organization and re-construction
- Abandonment, remediation and other environmental matters
- Pipeline and turnkey projects
- Infrastructure projects including PPPs
- Domestic gas supply and pricing policy
- Regulations and Compliance
- Negotiating, drafting and structuring petroleum industry contracts and arrangements.
Dispute Resolution Group
- Civil Litigation
- Corporate Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Arbitration
- Mediation and Conciliation
Community Development Agreement
Our Community Development Agreement (CDA) in energy project context is an emerging area of legal and regulatory practice in Nigeria, which relates to how oil and gas and mining corporations engage with their host communities around the areas where resource exploration and development activities take place.
In recent times, there is an emerging trend in which relations between communities and energy sector corporations in Nigeria is increasingly being regulated through a number of Federal legislations such as the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act and the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act.
So, in addition to the regular practice areas, our firm now has unique competency and specialist skills in the area of CDAs, sustainable community development strategy modeling, community benefit management systems’ structuring, context-specific engagement framework, community-related conflict prevention and management options. As a result, this is an area that we can provide legal advisory services, GMOU negotiation supports, strategic community development framework review, training and capacity building workshops for in-house team and other industry stakeholders.
In all these, the aim is generally to ensure that there is always value for money and that community investments meet current sustainability requirements through reviews, strategic evaluation of the operative engagement framework and we wish that you profit from this aspect of our service as well.