Corporate & Commercial

While our clients undertake to carry on with the day to day running of their businesses, we take care of their legal needs arising from the commercial aspect of their businesses. We focus on not only understanding our clients’ business needs but also assist them to prosper in their businesses by eliminating any legal glitches that they may encounter on a day to day running of their businesses.

Our Corporate & Commercial Practice Group has the requisite competence and wherewithal to make businesses work; as such, we are well positioned to offer practical commercial advice to our corporate clients in various sectors on the legal issues which most regularly impact on their businesses. At the core of our Corporate and Commercial practice is our ability to provide pragmatic and inventive business solutions to our clients for the effective implementation of their business goals.

Our team provides comprehensive business advisory services, including guidance on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. We offer advisory on joint ventures, major contracts, operating structures, procurement, sales and distribution networks, risk management and regulatory compliance, foreign investments, divestments and liquidations, assessments and audits, as well as policies and procedures. Our lawyers combine technical knowledge with the ability to craft innovative contractual solutions. We also keep abreast of the happenings at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), so we can advise our clients accordingly.

We help clients form corporations, partnerships and joint ventures including unincorporated ventures. We observe due diligence and carry out investigations on any matter referred to us and compile reports thereon to our corporate clients. Furthermore, we advise on tax implications in relation to various commercial transactions as requested by our clients.

We also help clients to maintain all aspects of regulatory compliance, statutory reporting and record-keeping requirements. Our company secretarial services team helps our clients to comply with corporate governance codes, as well as giving advice and counsel regarding directors’ fiduciary and legal responsibilities.