Practice Areas

Our Data Protection and Privacy Team advises businesses and institutions on managing data governance, privacy compliance, and information security in an increasingly regulated digital environment. We provide strategic guidance on data protection frameworks, cybersecurity governance, cross-border data transfers, and regulatory compliance.

Our team supports clients in developing data protection policies, conducting compliance audits, managing regulatory investigations, and responding to data breaches and incidents. We combine legal precision with a strong understanding of technology and business operations, enabling clients to manage risk while supporting innovation.

By delivering practical, forward-looking advice, our team helps organisations safeguard sensitive information, maintain regulatory confidence, and build trust with customers, partners, and regulators across multiple jurisdictions.

Our Corporate and Commercial Team provides comprehensive legal support to businesses at every stage of their lifecycle — from incorporation and structuring through to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructuring. We advise on shareholder agreements, board governance, regulatory approvals, and the full range of commercial transactions.

We work closely with founders, boards, institutional investors, and multinational corporations to ensure that every deal is structured with precision and every obligation is clearly defined. Our team brings particular strength in cross-border transactions, navigating complex regulatory environments and differing legal systems with confidence.

Whether you are expanding into new markets, raising capital, restructuring your operations, or managing corporate risk, our lawyers deliver clear, commercially minded advice that protects your interests and accelerates your ambitions.

Our Banking and Finance practice serves financial institutions, corporates, and development finance bodies on a full spectrum of financing transactions. We advise on syndicated lending, project finance, structured products, capital markets offerings, trade finance, and regulatory matters across both conventional and Islamic finance structures.

We understand the pressures that banks, lenders, and borrowers operate under and provide advice that is commercially grounded, technically rigorous, and practically executable. Our team has deep experience navigating Central Bank regulations, managing collateral arrangements, and structuring security packages that protect creditor interests.

From debt restructuring and workouts to advising on new financial instruments, we bring clarity to complexity — ensuring that every financing transaction is legally sound, efficiently structured, and positioned for long-term success.

Our Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team represents clients in high-stakes commercial disputes across courts, arbitral tribunals, and alternative dispute resolution forums. We bring strategic thinking, deep procedural knowledge, and relentless advocacy to every matter — whether the dispute involves contracts, corporate governance, financial instruments, or regulatory enforcement.

We approach every dispute with a clear resolution strategy, evaluating litigation risk, settlement prospects, and enforcement considerations at every stage. Our team is experienced in multi-party arbitrations, international commercial arbitration under ICC, LCIA, and ICSID rules, as well as domestic litigation at all levels of the court hierarchy.

When disputes arise, our clients trust us to defend their positions with precision and pursue their interests with determination — backed by thorough preparation, persuasive advocacy, and an unwavering commitment to results.

Our Employment and Labour Law practice advises employers, HR professionals, and executive employees on the full range of workplace legal matters. We counsel businesses on employment contracts, workforce restructuring, disciplinary procedures, redundancy programmes, executive remuneration, and the management of sensitive workplace investigations.

We help employers design legally compliant people frameworks, navigate the National Industrial Court, manage trade union relations, and respond effectively to employment-related regulatory actions. Our team understands that employment law is as much about people and organisational culture as it is about legal compliance.

Whether you are onboarding a senior executive, managing a complex termination, or restructuring your workforce, our team delivers practical employment law guidance that protects your organisation, respects your employees, and minimises legal exposure.

Our Intellectual Property practice helps businesses, creators, and innovators protect, commercialise, and enforce their most valuable intangible assets. We advise across the full IP spectrum — trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets, and designs — providing strategic counsel from registration and portfolio management through to licensing and enforcement.

In an economy increasingly driven by knowledge, reputation, and creative output, a robust IP strategy is a critical business asset. Our team combines deep technical knowledge with commercial acumen to help clients understand the value of their IP, structure transactions that monetise it, and take swift, decisive action when infringement occurs.

We also advise on IP aspects of corporate transactions, technology licensing, franchising arrangements, and brand protection strategies — ensuring that your intellectual assets are secured, structured, and positioned to generate lasting value across all your markets.

Our Real Estate and Property practice advises developers, investors, financial institutions, and public sector bodies on the full lifecycle of property transactions — from acquisition, title due diligence, and financing through to development, leasing, and disposal. We combine transactional expertise with deep regulatory knowledge to deliver seamless real estate legal services.

We have substantial experience in large-scale commercial developments, mixed-use projects, hospitality real estate, and affordable housing schemes. Our team navigates land use regulation, perfection of title, consent of governor applications, statutory planning approvals, and construction contracts with the precision and speed that property transactions demand.

Whether you are a developer breaking ground on a landmark project, an investor acquiring a commercial portfolio, or a lender structuring a property-backed facility, our team brings the legal rigour and commercial insight needed to close transactions efficiently and protect your position for the long term.

Our Energy and Natural Resources practice operates at the intersection of law, policy, and the forces reshaping global energy markets. We advise international oil companies, indigenous operators, government agencies, and investors on upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas transactions, as well as on renewable energy and power sector projects.

We support clients through the entire project lifecycle — regulatory approvals, licensing, joint operating agreements, production sharing contracts, financing arrangements, and commercial negotiations. Our team has significant experience with the Petroleum Industry Act and the evolving regulatory landscape governing Nigeria's oil and gas sector.

As the energy transition accelerates, we are equally active in advising on clean energy investments, power purchase agreements, off-grid solutions, and the legal frameworks supporting sustainable infrastructure development — positioning our clients for success in both today's and tomorrow's energy economy.