Corporate and commercial lawyers in Lagos
We advise companies and their boards on the decisions that are difficult to reverse — an acquisition, a joint venture, a shareholder who will not sign. Most corporate disputes we are asked to run trace back to a document drafted in an afternoon years earlier.
Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
Share and asset purchases, joint venture structuring, due diligence, and the completion mechanics that decide who carries the risk between signing and closing.
Company secretarial and CAC compliance
Annual returns, statutory registers, board and shareholder resolutions, and changes to directors or share capital — filed correctly and on time, so a transaction is never held up by an out-of-date register.
Board governance and shareholders’ agreements
Constitutional documents, protective provisions, reserved matters and deadlock mechanics. We map who actually has to say yes before you plan a transaction, not during one.
Shareholder and boardroom disputes
Oppression and unfair prejudice claims, derivative actions, and the negotiated exits that resolve most of these before a court is involved.
What are the annual filing obligations for a Nigerian company?
Every company must file annual returns at the CAC and keep its statutory registers current. Late filing attracts penalties and, more practically, stalls any transaction where a buyer or investor runs diligence.
Do I need a shareholders’ agreement if I already have Articles?
Usually yes. Articles are public and general; a shareholders’ agreement is private and can deal with deadlock, exits, non-compete and information rights in ways the Articles cannot.
Who you would work with
Twelve years across venture financings and cross-border M&A. Sits on the other side of the table often enough to know where it bends.
Writing →Fifteen years in upstream contracting and licensing. Reads a JOA the way other people read a menu.
Writing →Former prosecutor. Now spends her days undoing the case files she once built.
Writing →Title work, perfection, and the long unglamorous march through the land registry.
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