Chief Olajide Ajana & Co. (A & A LAW CHAMBERS) is a Firm of Legal Practitioners & Consultants which has evolved over three decades as a creative and solution-based Law Firm and Resource Centre dedicated to meeting clients’ needs in a most resourceful manner.
The Firm’s Offices are mainly in Akure and Abuja with correspondent offices in other parts of Nigeria.
The Firm is led by a Principal who works with other learned colleagues with diverse expertise and experiences, and have offered a range of general and specialist services on legal and policy matters to clients in diverse sectors of Nigerian economy.
The Firm recognizes that the up-to-date knowledge and skills of its members are crucial to meeting clients’ expectations in Nigeria’s continuously changing economic environment. Hence, it strives to continuously develop and update its resource base by providing up to date materials including journals and law reviews as well as ensuring continuous training of its human capital.
Further, in today’s increasingly volatile and competitive market environment partnering with its clients in order to understand and meet their needs and protecting their interests are of paramount importance to the Firm. Therefore, the Firm is committed to offering relative and cost-effective services by assisting its clients in managing issues from the outset and helping them realize the cost – benefit implication of any action to be taken therefrom till conclusion.
Regardless of the Firm’s clients’ situation or location, they can be confident they will always have access to the best legal services needed combined with the practice area technical competence, and the advisory services required for the clients’ successes in the marketplace.
The Firm’s members have successfully handled Banking, Finance and Taxation-Related Litigation, documentation and ADR briefs on behalf of clients. It offers advisory services and have continued to be of immense value and asset to them in this regard. It is involved in perfection of legal documentations in respect of mortgages and debenture issues, and evidencing lending transactions at the registries.
Other aspects of finance law the firm’s services cover include corporate financing, refinancing, securities, pension funds, trade finance, syndicated loan agreements, sale and lease buy back agreement, debt recovery and management and insurance transactions. It also advises on legislative and regulatory issues and facilitates obtaining relevant government approvals.
The Firm’s practice areas also cover varied aspects of taxation including advisory services and compliance issues on Corporate Income Tax, Personal Income Tax, Value Added Tax, Customs and Excise and Revenue Generation
The Firm advises Local and Foreign entrepreneurs including investors alike on how to set up, run and turn businesses around for good, and on incentives available to them, on the legal and regulatory compliance required of them.
It facilitates procurement of trade permits, resident permits, and expatriate quotas. The Firm also assists clients in dealing with Operational & HR issues.
The Firm’s services include incorporation of companies and organizations, registration of business names and partnerships and do provide company secretarial functions, negotiating and closing Investment and Commercial deals and drafting agreements involving foreign equity holdings, technology transfer, exploitation of intellectual property rights, licensing, manufacturing franchising, e-commerce, supplies and trade restriction, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, receiverships and winding up, liquidation etc.
Recognizing Real Property, Infrastructure and Logistics as crucial aspects of business operations and transactions, members of the firm have over the years developed professional relationships with Entrepreneurs, Investors, Businesses, government organizations, contractors, engineers, consultants, transporters and professionals involved in the construction and transport subsectors of the Nigerian economy, and have been involved in negotiating, reviewing, vetting and drafting terms of road and building constructions contracts, carriage of goods by road, air and seas, and logistics agreements.
The Firm’s members are endowed with cutting edge skills and leverages in providing services in dispute prevention and dispute resolution in the clients’ matters in these areas of practice, and continue to successfully litigate on disputes arising therefrom till date.
Further, the Firm’s membership’s aggregate wealth of experience empowers it to handle all aspects of legal work in planning and execution of major infrastructural projects including financing, securing government approvals, drafting and negotiating commercial project contracts, PPPs, and in dealing with other issues that may arise from host communities.
The Firm also offers advice on full range of commercial and residential property transactions including landlord-tenant leases, acquisition and sales, registration of third party interests, as well as handling land and property related disputes and obtaining relevant government consents and approvals.
