Banking and Securities
Our banking and finance practice is one of our core specializations. We advise on matters as varied as syndicated and bilateral loans, structured finance, secured and unsecured facilities, acquisition finance, leasing, project finance, asset finance, development finance, global depositary receipts, escrow arrangements, debt restructuring, debt to equity conversions and Islamic banking.
Read moreCapital Markets and Company Secretarial Services
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.
Read moreCorporate Restructuring, Joint Ventures and Taxation
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.
Read moreEnergy and Extractive Sector
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.
Read moreForeign Investment
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.
Read moreIntellectual Property
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.
Read moreTourism and Hospitality
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.
Read moreTelecommunication and Information Technology
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.
Read moreReal Estate and Construction
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.
Read moreProject Finance
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.
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