Conveyancing, Commercial & Corporate Transactions

CONVEYANCING, COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE LAW

Overview:

The Advocates in the firm have experience in acting for a wide range of clients, including banks, financial and mortgage institutions, building societies, micro-finance institutions, public corporations, and other lending institutions in all aspects of laws and practice relating to lending, credit, and securities, drafting offer letters, drawing and perfecting securities such as Debentures, Charges, Mortgages, Chattel Mortgages, Guarantees, Assignments, wide range of agreements governing various commercial relations and transactions including investment agreements.

Tax Advisory: Advising and acting for clients on a wide range of tax matters, including but not limited to tax regime; tax planning, tax evasion, and avoidance, taxation disputes settlement and penalties, and international taxation law. Our firm has a qualified tax agent.

Formation and incorporation of Companies, business organizations, non-profit organizations, charities, and NGO’s e.t.c, rendering advice as to the choice of suitable business organizations, advising on capitalization, directorships; advising on related aspects of labour law, taxation, statutory and other regulatory aspects;

Our firm handles all matters relating to companies’ statutory compliance, annual and other returns, advising on law of meetings and proceedings, assisting in extracting resolutions, maintaining and updating registers of companies custody of company seals, etc.

Negotiating commercial contracts and drafting a wide range of commercial instruments including agreements for mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, sale of businesses as going concerns, establishing Joint-Venture vehicles and overseeing the implementation of their mandate, etc.

Advising and assisting Banks, Commercial institutions, etc in the enforcement of securities, agreements, and contracts including the realization of securities.

Negotiating real estate development contracts, setting up single-purpose Joint-Venture vehicles, negotiation lending for such developments, negotiating ownership ratios, coordinating professional consultants for such developments, and transacting sales of developed units.

Advising insurance companies, co-insurers, Brokers, and Agents on various aspects of insurance law and related aspects under common law and statutory laws.

Reviewing and drafting policy documents and related instruments.