Financial Services

Investment and Securities

Our Investment and Securities Team is a hands-on team of business and legal advisors with a focus on strategy, creativity, and results. Our lawyers are known for their flexibility in structuring deals of all sizes, and their professionalism when working with clients’ teams, other advisors, regulators, and competitors alike. Our lawyers are passionate about their work whether serving corporate or entrepreneurial clients and are equally acquainted with public and private, debt and equity transactions.

Our Investment and Securities Team handles initial and secondary public offerings, private placements, rights offerings, derivative and structured financings, takeovers, mutual funds, and specialized tax-efficient instruments. We also represent registrants in application and compliance matters, and act for market participants in disciplinary and other regulatory proceedings. Clients include issuers, investment dealers, merchant and commercial banks, investors, and regulators.

Our Firm’s advantage lies in its ability to create elegant financing structures with regulatory confidence. Our lawyers pride themselves on their exceptional ability to communicate with team members, with other practice groups, with clients and their stakeholders, and with other advisors. It is one of the reasons we develop such strong and longstanding relationships with our clients.

Banking and Finance

We offer comprehensive legal support and services to a distinguished clientele comprising leading banking and financial institutions. With extensive expertise in both transactions and disputes within Banking and Finance Law and Practice, our Firm navigates complex regulatory matters for Nigerian and multinational corporations alike, including structured trade transactions and off-balance sheet arrangements.

Our specialized areas of focus include: acquisition financing; forward sale, swap, and other derivatives transactions; registration and licensing; loan documentation and syndication; bank security; debt recovery and factoring; receivership, insolvency, and bankruptcy practice; banker–customer relationship matters; legal advisory and opinions; asset securitization; and project financing.