We are a leading Nigerian business law firm founded in 1994. We have a reputation for, and an outstanding record of, carrying out critical, innovative and complex work to the highest standards of excellence. We have advised and represented our local and international clients on several of the most significant recent developments in Nigerian business law practice.

We are the first Nigerian law firm member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and have been at the forefront of adapting international standard form documentation on derivatives to Nigerian law and practice. We advise on exchange-traded and complex OTC derivative deals. Our derivatives lawyers regularly provide transactional expertise and regulatory compliance advice to leading global banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, and multilateral financial institutions on derivative transactions involving currencies, interest rates, credit, and commodities.

We continue to work regularly in providing legal advice on: (i) securities repurchase transactions, (ii) swaps, options and forwards, (iii) securities lending transactions, (iv) establishment of trading platforms and (v) development of rules for the operations of trading platforms.

We have advised extensively on international standard form agreements for derivatives transactions such as the ISDA, GMRA, GMSLA and CPMA forms, and on how transactions made under them would stand in the event of insolvency of one of the parties. We also provide legal opinions regularly to ISDA on various subjects.