Corporate Group

Our Corporate Group provides advice and support to corporate entities both private and public in their establishment and their operations in Nigeria’s rapidly growing business environment.

In corporate transactions, we have over the past 30 years represented many new foreign entrants in establishing and conducting their multi-faceted business activities in Nigeria’s ever evolving and complex business environment.

The broad diversification of the firm’s work and experience in the different practice groups enables us to provide our clients with coordinated legal advice in multiple areas of the law. This is enhanced by our experienced Corporate Group transactional lawyers, whose capabilities enable us to handle the numerous issues that can arise in a single corporate transaction.

Our Corporate team provides advice in a full spectrum of corporate transactional and other matters, in conjunction with our Banking & Capital Markets team in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, restructurings and private equity investments. We also counsel clients regarding a variety of other matters such as securities law compliance, directorial duties, tax-managed investments and market listings.

The depth and scope of F.O. Akinrele & Co’s practice has been reflected over the years in numerous surveys of the legal industry by Martindale Hubell, Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and Who’s Who Legal who have consistently listed the firm as amongst the sector leaders in Corporate practice areas in Nigeria.