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Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. serves as Company Secretary to many commercial enterprises drawn from all the major sectors of the economy.

In addition to assisting in the formation and establishment of companies in Nigeria, the firm also assists with convening Board and shareholders meetings and provide secretarial services there at, files requisite returns with the relevant regulatory agencies, and offers nominee arrangements, as well as, general legal advice to its clients.

We have an understanding of the Nigerian business tax system as well as those of other major trading nations of the world. We advise our clients on tax implications to their businesses such as sale of shares, assets etc. We also litigate for our clients where necessary in dispute of tax matters etc.

We provide legal support to clients in several complex joint venture transactions and tax planning. We negotiate various joint venture agreements and prepare documentation pertaining to the conception, construction and management of the subject matter at Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co.

At Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. we understand our clients’ businesses and industry, especially the legal issues in the energy, oil and gas sectors. Our expertise allows us to pragmatically and efficiently respond to their special needs.

The firm’s energy, oil and gas law group comprises of a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, advisors and consultants. We provide our clients with solutions to their commercial, legal, regulatory and structural challenges in the oil and gas industry, etc.

We also provide our service to foreign corporations including a few individuals and firms seeking general business advisory services on various legal and regulatory issues, particularly aspects of doing and establishing businesses in Nigeria. The advice of the firm is usually sought for a variety of services such as helping to identify appropriate local partners, due diligence work, or incorporation of a limited liability company or other appropriate vehicle for conducting the business. Naturally, assistance is also offered in preparing the documentation suitable to serve as instruments of the investment or relationship.

We regularly advise corporations and their boards of directors (as well as their special committees) on a host of matters, including corporate governance issues, regulatory reporting requirements, takeovers and takeover defenses, public-to-privates and conflict of interest and executive compensation issues.

The firm also conducts agency, franchising, distribution and licensing advice and registrations.

We work with clients to attain effective protection for their brands, intangible assets, concepts and business operating plans.

We provide well thought through, practical and commercially sensible legal solutions to clients with respect to their intellectual property and technology acquisition needs. This entails provision of legal advice on their Intellectual Property (IP) rights in relation to brand names and their usage, creative works and inventions, product development, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property rights and acquisition and transfer of technology.

Our anti-counterfeiting practice involves conducting investigations and working with the relevant agencies of the government to prosecute offenders and remove the offending products from the market.

The competitive and dynamic nature of the hospitality and tourism industry creates a diverse set of legal needs covering a range of issues relating to acquisitions, financing, property development and operational matters.

Our clients turn to us because of our established track record in the sector, our demonstrated understanding of their business realities and the practical, cost-effective advice and solutions we provide.

They also appreciate our fully-integrated team approach and the ability to access experienced lawyers across all relevant legal disciplines, including real estate, corporate and commercial, finance, municipal, taxation, franchising, intellectual property, advertising and marketing, employment, government relations, corporate governance, restructuring and litigation.


Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. experience in the telecommunication sector is unrivalled and remains so. The firm since the deregulation of the sector has advised both participants as well as the regulatory body for the sector. We actively participated in the development of the new Telecommunications policy in 1999 by the Federal Government of Nigeria. We advised one of the successful and now the biggest provider licensees in Sub-Saharan Africa of GSM at the auction of GSM licences and continue to represent its interests. Our firm also advised some operators at the fixed wireless access auctions.

As we have maintained our relationship with the regulatory agency and we are abreast of regulatory changes and developments, we participate in request by the regulatory agency for input on proposed changes from time to time and are therefore able to advice our clients to make sure they are able to adapt to the changes in the market and make the right decisions regarding their operations by offering top quality legal services.

We provide legal advice on regulatory, intellectual property, interconnection, corporate and licensing issues. We also assist our clients by liaising with the relevant regulatory bodies and government organisations and procuring the necessary permits and authorisations. We aim to provide comprehensive services to our TMT clients by rendering all-encompassing legal services according to their individual needs.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. is specialized in the real estate law. For years, Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. has represented property investors, developers and handled thousands of legal cases from the simple to the most complex and challenging cases in this area.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. services provides clients with the highest level of legal advice related to acquiring, financing, developing, managing, constructing, leasing and selling commercial and residential real property of all kinds.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. services long experience in this field and our success history case have given us a very good standing and make us one from the leading firm in this field.

We also provide all construction complexity from the simple residential work, to huge, complex developments and mass transportation. We provide legal advices and represent our client in the entire construction process from the land acquisition, designing structure to project development and post-construction dispute resolution matters.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. legal services experience in this field includes, but ils not limited to contract drafting, subcontracting, engineering, procurement, construction and financing agreement of all types, risk insurance, entitlements, licensing, permitting and other regulatory requirements. In addition, Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. represents local and foreign clients in arbitration, negotiation, alternative mode of conflict resolution, litigation and appeal.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. has a high level of practical experience in this field and our objective is to minimize the risk of any potential ambiguity or misunderstanding which may cost you a long expensive trial.


We give legal advice to the companies who need to raise money to develop a particular project, or to the banks and financial institutions lending to them. Our clients on this deal, the lenders, would not have been comfortable lending nearly $1 billion without lawyers being extensively involved with the contracts, especially because of the risks involved. Our role was to get the lenders comfortable with the risks they were taking on, and to put as many safeguards in the documents as we could to ensure, to the extent legally and commercially possible, that they would get repaid at the time and in the manner that they’d expect.

The main documents Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. worked on were the loan agreements and the security documents, which granted lenders rights over project-related current and future assets.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. also looked at the underlying project documents (such as those relating to the construction of the mine), the insurance documents for the project, and the documents setting up project bank accounts to ensure that the lenders had adequate rights over these accounts.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co advise on a number of maritime issues, disputes and transactions including the sale and purchase of all types of vessels, ship mortgages, regulatory compliance issues in the industry, marine insurance matters, establishment of shipping companies and vessel registration including registration in the context of the “cabotage” laws and regulations.

We are able to provide advice with respect to insurance, regulatory, tax, employment and liability issues that are specific to shipping transactions.

At Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. we advise airline operators, financiers, aircraft lessors, service providers to airlines and aircraft maintenance companies on a variety of issues including financing, regulatory and compliance matters, on aviation-related contractual arrangements and disputes.

We have also advised and assisted with drafting technical service and managerial agreements with international providers on issues such as:

Aircraft leasing and financing arrangements with international service providers, establishment of Nigerian operations by an international airline operating in a foreign regulatory environment Route rights and route right applications.

Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman & Co. acts as legal adviser to various foreign and indigenous telecommunication Company. We support our client by providing regulatory compliance services i.e. by securing requisite NCC licenses. One of our Partners is a specialist in this area having acquired a master’s degree in Corporate and Commercial with special emphasis on Information technology and telecommunication law.

The vast majority of instructions we execute are provided mainly to our locally-based clients and cover areas ranging from pre-trial and interlocutory reliefs to full hearings in the High and Appellate Courts. Our litigation experience has included services rendered to represent shareholders’ rights including winding up petitions and liquidation proceedings, commercial disputes, banking and arbitration.

Several instructions of a personal, general litigation type are available and are offered on a regular basis to Public and private company clients. Cross-border referrals are regularly received, as are requests for intervention in disputes arising from breakdown in partner/customer/ agency relationships etc. Disputes are a drain on business, requiring lawyers to develop a proactive strategy, one that focuses on our clients’ need and is designed to achieve the desired outcome in a timely and cost effective manner.

Our lawyers are therefore experienced in a variety of alternative dispute resolution methods including negotiation, mediation and arbitration. The group is also renowned for its dispute resolution group which boasts of lawyers that have handled both civil, commercial trials and Appeals. Our litigators have played leading roles in a number of highly complex commercial disputes including Construction, Debt recovery, public and private sector and labour disputes.