Bloomfield is a specialist commercial and dispute resolution law firm with a comprehensive broad-based approach to service clients on all aspects of their needs.
Accordingly, we work in partnership with our clients, anticipate their needs and proffer quality, practical and cost-effective solutions. We are innovative, solution focused and are known to provide client-centric answers to the most complex issues. As a testament to our well-established knowledge and deep experience in our areas of service, our clients rely on us to help provide guidance, manage change and achieve regulatory compliance in order to meet their objectives. With over a century of combined experience, our lawyers have a vast network of relationships with relevant stakeholders which we leverage for the benefit of our clients. With a nimble and dynamic team, Bloomfield keeps abreast of developments in the constantly changing global business and political environment in which our clients operate. Flexibility and accessibility at all times are a core part of our culture; and, we are available, round the clock, to serve you.
Our Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group features experienced corporate lawyers who provide expert legal support to some of the leading national and international businesses and financial institutions in their corporate restructuring and financing activities.
According to Chambers and Partners, we are “best known for providing commercial advice to financial institutions and multinationals. Well versed in banking law, project finance and securities as well as offering expertise in the technology industry.”
Our Corporate, M&A and Securities practice group encompasses a variety of services including anti-trust and competition, asset management, compliance, joint ventures and alliances, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, restructuring and insolvency. We have had significant experience advising foreign and domestic companies on the establishment of mutual funds and private equity funds in Nigeria including advising on the first ever acquisition of a mutual fund and first integration of two mutual funds in Nigeria, as well as advising clients on share and asset acquisitions and divestments of existing interests. Our Corporate, M&A and Securities practice group also encompasses our business advisory services through which we provide general legal, commercial and compliance advice to clients to both domestic and international clients in a variety of sectors on all aspects of their business.
Our practice group members are notable practitioners with cross cutting experience and ability to support our clients’ various needs be it in connection with domestic, cross border and/or international transactions. We have been instrumental to some of the largest and successful mergers and acquisitions deals in Nigeria.
At all times during our engagement, we are focused on ensuring that we facilitate the smooth restructuring of companies as well as secure the interests of all the stakeholders.
Our Dispute Resolution Practice Group is well equipped to help you navigate commercial disputes in and out of the courts, while securing your best interest.
With years of fruitful experience in resolving shipping; labour & employment; and general commercial disputes, our approach, in all instances where we act for our diverse clients, is to step into your shoes and put you first in helping to resolve your commercial disputes.
We provide result-oriented representation to our clients via the various adjudicatory proceedings such as litigation, arbitration and other representative alternative dispute resolution fora. We are able to provide excellent and comprehensive representation to our clients by collaborating across different practice groups, as applicable in each instance, to meet the needs of our clients. We have played key roles in attaining landslide victories in some of the biggest commercial disputes nationally and internationally across several industries and areas of our practice.
Our dispute resolution practice group is well versed in a wide range of commercial disputes including commercial debt recovery actions, employment and trade disputes, finance and securities disputes and shipping and oil services disputes. As an indication of our wide reach, our shipping and oil services disputes team continues to act for some of the members of the world’s largest Protection and Indemnity Clubs, representing them in dispute resolution negotiations, as well as securing the arrest of vessels as security for their maritime claims.
Our dispute resolution group is a key practice group which is integrated with and works smoothly with all other practice groups to meet clients’ needs from time to time.
Our acclaimed Immigration, Labour and Employment Practice Group provides top notch, fast and excellent legal support in the immigration, labour and employment sector, with an ultimate degree of client satisfaction and care.
We perfectly understand the diverse and changing legal landscape both domestically and internationally, and we support our clients accordingly.
We are a one stop shop for foreign participants in the Nigerian business sector as well as for Nigerian participants in cross border and international commerce in foreign jurisdictions. We provide regulatory compliance advisory and due diligence support to individuals and corporate entities vis-à-vis expatriate mobility advisory, in accordance with government and industry requirements from country to country.
Our Immigration practice provides assistance in obtaining work and resident permits and business permits. The team also offers consular advice and assistance with obtaining out-bound business and work visas for other countries with embassies in Nigeria.
Our team offers extensive labour and employment services with specific focus on employment advisory and employment litigation. We help both domestic companies and multinationals create recruitment policies, work processes, remuneration and pension policies, as well as internal guidelines in accordance with obtainable industry regulations and best practices. Where there is a wrong, we provide representation to the wronged party, whether it is an employer or employee and have a track record of getting adequate redress for our clients.
We pride ourselves in the ability to help all our clients navigate the immigration and employment law terrain of the different countries where they do business in a way that minimizes their legal risks to the minimum, and safeguards both the employers and the employees’ interests.
Our acclaimed Immigration, Labour and Employment Practice Group provides top notch, fast and excellent legal support in the immigration, labour and employment sector, with an ultimate degree of client satisfaction and care.
We perfectly understand the diverse and changing legal landscape both domestically and internationally, and we support our clients accordingly.
We are a one stop shop for foreign participants in the Nigerian business sector as well as for Nigerian participants in cross border and international commerce in foreign jurisdictions. We provide regulatory compliance advisory and due diligence support to individuals and corporate entities vis-à-vis expatriate mobility advisory, in accordance with government and industry requirements from country to country.
Our Immigration practice provides assistance in obtaining work and resident permits and business permits. The team also offers consular advice and assistance with obtaining out-bound business and work visas for other countries with embassies in Nigeria.
Our team offers extensive labour and employment services with specific focus on employment advisory and employment litigation. We help both domestic companies and multinationals create recruitment policies, work processes, remuneration and pension policies, as well as internal guidelines in accordance with obtainable industry regulations and best practices. Where there is a wrong, we provide representation to the wronged party, whether it is an employer or employee and have a track record of getting adequate redress for our clients.
We pride ourselves in the ability to help all our clients navigate the immigration and employment law terrain of the different countries where they do business in a way that minimizes their legal risks to the minimum, and safeguards both the employers and the employees’ interests.
Our Intellectual Property Practice Group consists of knowledgeable and experienced practitioners well abreast of the modern trends and development in the intellectual property landscape.
We provide advice and representation to foreign and domestic clients in connection with the identification, protection, exploitation, management and enforcement of their intellectual property rights. We advise our clients as to their legal obligations in terms of registration and renewal of their IP licenses, exploitation and transfer of their rights, assertion of their ownership against infringement and competition, and regulatory compliance with national and international laws. Our IP Practice covers Media and Entertainment, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Franchising sectors.
Lawyers in our IP Group are active members of different national and international intellectual property organizations such as the International Trademarks Association (INTA) and Intellectual Property Law Association of Nigeria (IPLAN); and are continually updating their knowledge of the field through relevant trainings and certifications. We are able to effectively manage multijurisdictional IP portfolios on behalf of our clients. We as well represent our clients in IP disputes before the appropriate dispute settlement authorities. Bloomfield offers you a one stop shop for all advertising and marketing, patents, technology and trademark needs and client satisfaction is our topmost priority.
The real estate and construction sector is continuously evolving in Nigeria and we have remained at the forefront of the real estate management and construction law related transactions in our jurisdiction.
We provide representation to leading players in the ever-growing real estate market in Nigeria and have advised notable public and private entities in some of the most complex real estate transactions in Nigeria and across international markets. Our team possesses an unmistakable depth of understanding as it pertains to this terrain, and an unmatched foresight which enables us service our clients in such a way that their current and future interests are secured.
We have displayed this knowledge base on the various transactions we were involved in, these include the some of the biggest real estate and construction deals in Nigeria including the multi-million-dollar development of malls, commercial property and residential estates. Due to keen awareness of sensitive issues surrounding real estate and the susceptibility to loss of investment capital, our team members bring a dynamic approach to our deal advisory in this regard to hold our clients’ hands to evade these loopholes.
Our real estate and construction team assists clients to protect their interests at all stages of real estate development, from planning, to due diligence on land acquisition, to assisting in the perfection of title, to providing advice on corporate structures and joint development agreements between our clients and their partners and finally assisting with leasing out office spaces or residential units to tenants upon completion of construction.
