Contract negotiation, Drafting & Risk Management

This entails advice, drafting, review, management and resolution of disputes in contracts falling in any of the following broad categories.

• Shareholders Agreements
• Share Purchase Agreement
• Service Level Agreements
• Leasing Agreements
• Agency Agreements
• Supply and Distribution Agreements
• Manufacturing Agreements
• Support Agreements to mention but a few.

Legal Audit & Compliance

Legal audits have been seen as less costly modes of litigation avoidance as they proactively identify various potential risk areas. With a proper legal audit firms/business/state bodies can have a contingent plan on how to avoid possible litigation as well as costly fines for non-compliance with various statutory bodies especially in regulated bodies such a banking, insurance and telecoms just to name a few.

Our Audits covers areas such as evaluation of contracts in place, statutory compliance check, employee risk management, litigation review, preparation of service level agreements, post audit recommendations and the set-up of legal internal audit processes and systems.

Technology, Media, telecommunication &Intellectual Property Law

We understand the importance of protecting Intellectual Property Rights in corporate practice. Our professional advocates have unmatched experience and skills in the following broad areas: –

• Offering Legal Advice on Data privacy and Security including but not limited to the European Union
• General Data Protection Regulations (GDPRl, Internet governance, Legal and regulatory compliance, business advocacy, and Cyber Security.
• Intellectual Property Litigation and advisory services as relates to trademarks, passing-off copyright claims.
• Advising, drafting, review of IP related agreements such as licensing and franchise agreements.
• Trademarks and: legal services as relate to advisory, consultancy, searches, due diligence, registration and filing oppositions revocation renewals, assignments services.
• Patent legal services as relates to searches, advisory, due diligence, filing and litigation services.
• Copyright legal services as relates to advisory, due diligence and registration services.
• Registration and advisory matters as relate to utility models.
• Advisory services as relates to breach of confidential information.
• Advisory services as relates to trade secrets.

Company Secretarial Services

We offer secretarial services to its corporate clients such as incorporation of business, companies (private and foreign), trusts, societies and non-governmental organizations, filing of annual returns, AGM services, effecting changes of a company and as when they do arise, drafting of special resolutions, sealing, stamping and notarization of corporate documents and safe-keeping company secretarial documentation.