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From its inception, the firm focused on creating tailored solutions to client needs and continues to do so. The firm is led by an ambitious, globally minded team delivering efficient and innovative service. The firm’s vision has been to offer legal services to public and private sector clients in line with best international practice. It has over the years grown to a modest size firm advising clients from simple to complex legal transactions. Our vision, coupled with long standing track record, drawn upon years of experience and a network of professional contacts both domestically and internationally has put us in a position to handle complex legal transactions.
The services of the firm have been retained by many notable Corporate Organizations, Manufacturing industries, and Governmental and non-Governmental bodies. Amongst our public clientele are Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE), Nigeria Telecommunications Company (Nitel), Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Petroleum Development Trust Fund, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, etc. While from the Private sector the services of the firm have been retained by numerous corporate and non-corporate organizations such as Gongoni Company Limited, W.J. Bush and Co, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, and Kapital Insurance Co., the Lee Group, Fata Tanning Limited, the Kano Chamber of Commerce, the Yar’Adua Foundation etc. The firm has negotiated many land mark investment and commercial transactions, domestic and transnational litigations, and dispute settlement, touching on various areas of legal practice.
Founded in 1993
50 people in their team
D&M has a leading dispute resolution practice. Our strength is not only our outstanding legal knowledge, but also the depth of our experience across industries. We have represented clients in relation to some of the most complex and strategically important lawsuits and commercial arbitrations across all sectors. Our experience in alternative dispute resolution procedures in addition to traditional processes of Litigation and Arbitration, Including Pre-litigation Disputes Management, Mediation, Negotiations and processes to resolve disputes makes us the firm of choice for many industry leaders.
D & M has a dedicated team that is well versed in corporate law practice and provides a full range of corporate and company secretarial services. We possess a striking diverse record of issues ranging from corporate structure to regulation of corporations, corporate governance and corporate contracts. We provide quality legal advisory support, pragmatic business solutions and hands-on approach in the formation of new businesses, corporate mergers and acquisition, investment, securities, and other company law matters.
At D&M, our intellectual property team has garnered extensive experience and expertise in various aspects of intellectual property, competition and consumer protection. We have assisted clients in the cosmetics, textile, food and beverages sectors in protecting their branding rights. Our lawyers possess intimate understanding of the registration of trade and service marks at the Nigerian Trademarks Registry. We register and renew trademarks, patents and designs, as well as handle their oppositions. We also facilitate registration of products with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).
