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TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Nigerian creative and digital space is among the most exciting in the world today. Located within a large market that is also one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, the sector is a highly attractive investment destination. Its pace of development often outstrips its underlying legal framework, however, creating asymmetries that need careful navigation.
AOA Legal offers clients within the sector innovative and closely contextual thinking, as well as steady, realistic and accurate advice to help them manage both their opportunities and risks to maximise their business models. We have significant experience with a wide range of prominent international a wide range of prominent international and local stakeholders, including technology corporations, event promoters, franchise and brand owners, broadcasters and advertisers.
We lead the field at AOA Legal in counselling such clients on investment and corporate issues, content commissioning, intellectual property protection, media and other regulation, license acquisition, network expansion and related matters. Our legal expertise pertaining to the creative, cultural and technology industries in Nigeria has been recognised by the Federal Government in the form of invitations to provide input on policy.

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Energy

We have one of the fastest growing Oil & Gas practices and provide legal services across the full spectrum of the upstream, mid-stream and downstream industries. Our breadth of experience, combined with our willingness to explore unconventional solutions that allows us to provide our clients with truly balanced commercial and legal advice in diverse areas from negotiation and documentation of asset investments / divestments / partnerships to project finance negotiations and documentation to a variety of service agreements to assisting with obtaining accreditation with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for oil and oil service companies.

The firm is also very experienced in all aspects of oil and gas related litigation, including oil spillage claims, negotiation and settlement of community claims, contract disputes, workmen’s compensation and personal injury claims. Our extensive knowledge of regulatory and transaction processes continues to support industry innovation, as our clients push the boundaries of industry advancement to explore new frontiers.
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GENERAL COMMERCIAL LAW, FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Creating business certainty is a goal that we have in common with our clients. Our approach is always pragmatic; our focus is on adding value to our clients’ operations and providing solutions that emphasise commercial considerations. From start-ups to multinational corporations, from corporate structures as diverse as sole proprietorships to international joint ventures, the AOA
Legal team has proven expertise supporting every aspect of running a business in Nigeria. We draw on a wealth of experience with commercial clients in our demanding operating environment to offer a full service that includes advising and facilitating regulatory matters, advising on transaction structures, and drafting, analysis and interpretation of documentation. The depth of our local insight and the breadth of our local professional networks are strengths from which our foreign clients especially benefit. AOA Legal also advises and faces some of the largest financial institutions in Nigeria. We counsel our clientele on the preparation and vetting of securities and documentation for all manner of financial transactions, including project and corporate finance and non-capital financing. We are also seeing growth in our practice reflecting the general growth in the use of foreign investment into Nigeria.

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LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Disputes and claims are an unavoidable part of business. When disagreements occur, we work with clients to find the most effective and cost-efficient approach to secure favourable outcomes, without losing focus of our clients’ commercial imperatives.

We have extensive experience in litigating intellectual property, commercial contracts, company law disputes, maritime, oil and gas and a wide range of other commercial disputes and securing preferred outcomes for our clients.
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BANKING & FINANCE

AOA Legal has advised and faced some of the largest financial institutions in Nigeria in a wide range of transactions. We advise our broad clientele on the preparation and vetting of all forms of securities and transactional documentation for all forms of financial transactions from project and corporate finance to non-capital financing
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MARITIME & AVIATION

AOA Legal is experienced in representing and advising shipowners, charterers, operators and their protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs on a broad spectrum of matters. Our expertise ranges from blue water shipping, cargo, longshore and towage operations to brown water activities and transportation, complemented by our upstream oil and gas legal services We handle contentious issues and disputes including personal injury, cargo, carriage and service claims, pollution and maritime collisions, and help our clients prosecute or defend other forms of admiralty actions. We also offer services relating to all aspects of international trade insurance .
Our location in Lagos grants us easy access to the ports, allowing us to effectively track ships and to be particularly responsive to emergencies. Nigeria is one of the most friendly vesselarrest destinations in the world, and our team offers expertise in ship arrests and release.
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