Abraham, Thompsons & Co, a full-service boutique law practice with increasing reputation in complex commercial transactions and considerable experience in a broad spectrum of corporate and commercial law practice. ATC has built a reputation over the years in its in-depth knowledge and understanding of the economic landscape of Nigeria and Africa. We have the size of a local firm, but the responsiveness of a global firm because we stay abreast of evolving laws and regulatory issues and make sure our clients are prepared to address them
We aim to build enduring relationships with our clients by intentionally investing time and resources to ensure we understand our clients’ businesses and their transaction objectives, providing cutting-edge legal solutions to problems and efficiently structuring clients transactions in the most optimal and beneficial way. We make your business our business and ensure that we meet collective commercial goals promptly, efficiently and professionally.
Having regularly represented clients in Loans Documentation, Debt Recovery and Restructuring situations, our lawyers are uniquely skilled in providing bespoke services for parties on both sides of the divide.
Investments spurs economic development and deriving returns therefrom enhances the flow of additional investment. Our intimate knowledge of the local nuances prevalent in the financial market place, allows us to adequately provide practical and realistic advice as well as solutions to help our clients maximize returns on their investments or mitigate their exposure. Our lawyers are also well versed in insolvency practice and they are uniquely skilled in advising parties on either side of an organisation experiencing dire straits or imminent business failure.
We are suitably positioned to advise our clients on the vast array of commercial matters which may affect their businesses as we have specialized lawyers with succinct experience in corporate and commercial matters. Business transactions in the present global market place must be structured in a manner that optimizes the legal position of the enterprise as well as the multitude of issues that may arise on a local basis.
As part of our services in this practice area, we help our clients navigate the labyrinth of their routine corporate and commercial engagements by providing practical and situation specific solutions. Our insight on the true workings of the Nigerian market affords us the opportunity of adequately advising our clients to ensure that their interests are properly secured while limiting any exposure to an undesired outcome.
The most important resource of an organisation are its people and the ability of a company to properly deploy this resource is key to the success of the Company. Our immersion strategy allows us to provide a best fit solution that will match our Client’s aspiration. We utilize lawyers from around our firm whenever necessary to enable best practice in areas such as tax and contractual agreements
We offer legal services in such areas as: Employee Benefits and Pensions, Employment Contracts and other issues arising there from, Retirement Benefits and other related matters within the ambits of the regulatory laws.
Voluntary and in-voluntary disengagement of employees are recurring decimals in life of an organisation. Our lawyers have thus been engaged by expatriates who were in the employment of Multi-National Corporations, to claim contractual benefits denied to them at their in-voluntary exits from such corporations and they have done this through several successful litigations at the various divisions of the National Industrial Court in Nigeria. We also routinely issue proper termination or in-voluntary disengagement advisory to organisations desirous right-sizing their man-power engagements.
The Family Unit is critical to a stable Nation. The unpredictable developments in the course of creating a family requires dexterity and nuance due to the bonds that may have been formed. We have have curated our service to meet the unique issues typically associated with family related matters.
Our IP practice provides made to measure services complemented by the experience of our IP Team. The Team ensures that the work is delivered on time and in the most cost-efficient manner while not compromising on quality. We advise on creation, exploitation and enforcement of IP rights.
Our lawyers are handle varying issues relating to IP and they are trusted advisers to multinationals and Private Equity firms to manage their IP Portfolios and provide solutions to their IP issues. In this regard, our advice includes registration, transfer and licensing of intellectual property rights as well as copyright. We recently advised a multi-national Pharmaceutical Company in Nigeria on the restructuring of their entire IP portfolio containing over 100 products.
Our IP Team also routinely advises technology companies in a number of sectors including FinTech, EduTech, HealthTech and Logistics. We also advise and handle disputes covering IP rights, co-ordinate litigation and settlement strategies for clients in defence of their IP rights.
Our Dispute Resolution practice is typically engaged for litigation and commercial arbitration and as a result our lawyers routinely represent clients in suits that have traversed the entire hierarchy of courts in Nigeria. Our dispute resolution practice comprises of the following:
We assist our clients to actively manage their litigation portfolio by ensuring that their commercial considerations are foremost in the dispute resolution strategy adopted in addressing their disputes.
Our keen adoption of technology allows us to provide best-fit solutions for our clients’ dispute and our immersion strategy allows us a proper grasp of what a win is for our client.
