Nigeria

Firm overview

We are dedicated to addressing demanding clients’ important legal challenges.

We are a leading Nigerian business law firm founded 30 years ago. We have always had an international outlook. We have a reputation for, and an outstanding record of, carrying out critical, innovative and complex work to the highest standards. We have advised on many significant developments in Nigerian business law.

Our practice areas are: mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, re-organizations, foreign investment, compliance (including environmental, social and governance matters), lendings, derivatives, insolvency, capital markets, litigation, arbitration, “white collar” defence and investigations, tax, intellectual property, competition, data protection and employment law.

Our clients work in many industry sectors: agribusiness, commercial banking, Fintech, investment banking, insurance, private equity, pensions, fund managers, oil and gas, electric power, mining, real estate, construction, infrastructure, healthcare, transport, services, retail and distribution, commodities, materials, manufacturing (capital goods, consumer goods), foreign trade, technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment.

Our clients are of many nationalities and every size. They range from foremost global multinational enterprises to ambitious, home-grown fledglings. We also serve governments and government-controlled enterprises (we have advised on numerous privatizations) as well as private wealth clients.

We have and maintain complementary contacts in Nigerian business and government circles, and with law firms and lawyers’ organizations in and outside Nigeria. We are a member of Multilaw, a leading global alliance of independent law firms. Multilaw has offices in 100 countries and over 11,000 lawyers.

Our clients are of many nationalities and every size. They range from foremost global multinational enterprises to ambitious, home-grown fledglings. We also serve governments and government-controlled enterprises (we have advised on numerous privatizations) as well as private wealth clients.

We have and maintain complementary contacts in Nigerian business and government circles, and with law firms and lawyers’ organizations in and outside Nigeria. We are a member of Multilaw, a leading global alliance of independent law firms. Multilaw has offices in 100 countries and over 11,000 lawyers.

Firm overview

TEMPLARS is a foremost, integrated, full-service commercial law firm. With offices in key commercial centres in Nigeria i.e., Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, and an office in, Accra, Ghana, the firm is strategically placed to
offer quality legal services to clients across the length and breadth of the continent.

At TEMPLARS, our strengths lie in our coverage of diverse legal fields as well as our familiarity with the major sectors of the Nigerian economy. Not only are we well acquainted with domestic and international business transactions, typically involving strategic alliances and complex business arrangements, our lawyers work daily with all kinds and sizes of businesses, to structure, negotiate and document their transactions.

We have built a reputation for understanding each client’s peculiar business needs and applying legal principles to craft workable solutions to meet those business objectives.

Our lawyers are trained to diagnose business problems from a commercial perspective and don the lawyer's hat to implement business-savvy legal solutions within a timely and efficient manner, keeping transaction
timelines and deadlines in view.

We assist our clients to analyse the risks involved in their transactions; and we mitigate and hedge against those risks by deploying or devising appropriate risk management tools.

Our lawyers are consummate professionals who have decades’ worth of experience collaborating with various transaction parties to achieve the commercial and other intentions of clients.

Consistent with our commercial approach in the service of our clients, we constantly employ cost-effective procedures in the pursuit of each mandate.

Firm overview

ǼLEX is a leading commercial and dispute resolution law firm. We are one of the largest full-service law firms in West Africa with offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, Nigeria, and Accra, Ghana. We merge local expertise and presence, and political and industry-wide connections with an appreciation of global standards.

We provide legal services involving commercial practice areas that cover a broad spectrum of matters relating to Project Finance, Litigation & Arbitration, Oil & Gas, Agriculture, Capital Markets & Securities Law, Power, Tax Law, International Trade Law, Company Secretarial & Regulatory Compliance, Energy & Infrastructure, Banking & Finance Law, Aviation & Maritime Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, Telecommunications Law, Media & Entertainment and Financial Technology.

ǼLEX has consistently been the law firm of choice in Nigeria when it comes to tax advisory and litigation services cutting across a wide range of sectors including oil and gas, shipping, aviation, manufacturing and financial services. ǼLEX has handled groundbreaking tax matters both at the Tax Appeal Tribunal and in the Nigerian courts.

Firm overview

Alliance Law Firm is a commercial law firm with profound expertise in providing tax advisory, litigation, transfer pricing, and audit/dispute resolution services. Our services are unique, creative and designed to protect our client’s commercial interests.

Our tax lawyers are renowned for precise and commercially informed advice on all applicable tax laws, international tax treaties, double taxation agreements, multi-lateral instruments, OECD guidelines, etc. Our team ensures that the needs of our clients are met and that the provisions of relevant tax laws are complied with. Our clients benefit from a comprehensive suite of services involving domestic and international/cross-border tax advisory, tax planning, transfer pricing, transaction tax management, operational model optimisation, tax audit/investigation support, and tax dispute resolution. Also, we frequently represent our clients in discussions and negotiations with both federal and state tax authorities.

We work with our clients to provide efficient, commercial and solution-based advice. Our expertise and relationship with the government enable us to work seamlessly with federal and state tax authorities. When settlement of a tax dispute fails at the level of the relevant tax authority, our dedicated tax litigators take up the matter to protect the interests of our clients. Our team has successfully assisted clients doing business in Nigeria and globally with resolving issues arising from turnover assessment, excess dividend tax assessment, group business restructuring, tax planning, transfer pricing documentation, tax due diligence, obtaining administrative tax amnesty/ruling, operational model optimisation, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, etc. With a seamless blend of industry-recognised partners, consultants and a well-resourced team of tax lawyers, operating from three offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt, Alliance Law Firm is well-positioned to meet and even exceed clients’ needs and expectations. We offer our clients the broadest mix of cognate skills and depth of expertise drawn from decades of hands-on corporate commercial transactional practice and dispute resolution.

Firm overview

We are a full-service law firm with international business experience. We provide our clients with a full range of legal, business advisory and transaction support services with a guarantee of skill, knowledge and professionalism. We do not profess expertise unless we genuinely have it.

Whether engaged to advise on new investments or relationships, or to resolve issues arising from existing transactions, the firm creates value by providing innovative and practical business solutions. We start by understanding the industries in which our clients operate, the peculiarities of each client’s business and the clients’ expectations, as the bases for identifying the solutions that optimise the client’s position within the framework of the law and the operating environment.