Core Areas of
Law Practice

O&O provides corporate clients with comprehensive legal services in company promotion and corporate-secretarial matters. Our experience covers insolvency, commercial contracts, energy, oil and gas, solid minerals, exploration licences, mergers and acquisitions, and related commercial transactions under Nigerian law.

We also negotiate and prepare joint-venture agreements, credit agreements, capital-market placements, asset inquiries, due-diligence reports and title documentation.

O&O provides legal advisory and litigation services to shippers, P&I Clubs, cargo claimants, insurance companies and other participants in the aviation and maritime sectors.

Insurance and related subrogated claims and recoveries may be undertaken on a no-cure-no-pay basis where appropriate.

Our services include drafting and reviewing mortgage deeds, registering and transferring statutory mortgages, advising on the exercise of powers of sale, and protecting mortgagees’ interests under mortgage arrangements.

We also advise on property, investment and asset management, administration of estates, property sourcing, insured-purchase advisory, title investigation, inspection, sale, acquisition and perfection of titles.

Our intellectual-property services cover advisory work on IP rights relating to use, creative works, brand names, licensing, commercial exploitation, acquisition and technology transfer.

We handle passing-off actions, trademark applications and protection, copyright notifications, industrial-design filings, and documentation for software licences, non-disclosure agreements, assignments of IP rights, distribution agreements, franchise agreements and technology-transfer agreements.

O&O advises on the registration and discharge of mortgages; financial technology, including cryptocurrency and electronic transactions; e-contracts; e-hailing services; relevant searches; credit arrangements; and project financing.

The firm also has demonstrated experience in insolvency, receivership, mergers and acquisitions, and general credit and security advisory. Our cryptocurrency advisory work for banks places us among the early Nigerian legal-service providers advising financial institutions on cryptocurrency-related customer relationships.

The firm has a record of successfully recovering loans and other commercial debts for clients, particularly banks and other financial institutions.

O&O applies practical methods developed over many years to debt recovery, receivership and liquidation, with litigation treated as the final option where appropriate.

We review international contracts, comfort letters, product-liability arrangements, international franchises and licences. The firm advises on immigration law, import and export regulation, cross-border investment, acquisitions, reorganisations, insolvency and the legal aspects of foreign investment.

Our experience also covers the enforcement of foreign judgments, advice on foreign laws, and interpretation of international treaties and conventions affecting trade and investment.

Our information-technology practice covers the procurement and registration of licences; negotiation, preparation and review of software contracts; data-protection and privacy agreements and advisory; software protection; consumer protection; contract liability; copyright; and other claims arising under diverse and emerging technology systems.

We advise on the legal aspects of environmental protection, environmental justice, claims arising from environmental pollution and the dumping of hazardous waste.

We recognise the commercial and regulatory challenges involved in environmental disputes and apply established best practices to their resolution.

Obiagwu & Obiagwu LLP provides legal advisory services on petroleum law, the solid-minerals regime, oil and gas regulation, energy-sector investment and oil-and-gas service contracts.

In a country rich in natural resources, we develop practical solutions for investors, traders and other industry stakeholders and provide effective representation across solid minerals, oil, gas and related energy activities.

The firm provides legal advisory and litigation services concerning Nigerian tax legislation, foreign tax regimes, customs duties and other statutory charges and taxes.

The firm effectively employs mediation as a first-line settlement method in client disputes. Obiagwu & Obiagwu LLP is a member of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators and is recognised as a leading mediation and arbitration practice in Nigeria.

O&O owns and operates Lekki Settlement House, a subsidiary mediation firm offering commercial mediation, mediation training and promotion of alternative dispute resolution in Nigeria. It also holds a Nigerian Bar Association licence for the training and delivery of ADR courses through the NBA Institute of Continuing Legal Education.