Famsville Solicitors ("Famsville") is a rapidly growing commercial law firm in Nigeria with multi-jurisdictional reach and competence across the areas of Corporate/Commercial, Labour/Employment, Immigration, Litigation, Arbitration, and ESG. We are a full-service firm keen on delivery of bespoke services to a wide range of clients both locally and internationally.
Our core expertise cuts across legal advisory and representation on complex transactions, litigation, arbitration and regulatory interface across all value chains of the Nigerian economy.
As a Pan-African law firm focused on building bridges in the African continent and other regions, through strategic alliances across major cities in Africa, we pride ourselves in helping to support foreign trade/ investments from other regions. We are renowned for the excellent and innovative methods we deploy in providing quality business advisory across the locations we carry on business. Our excellent culture has earned us our place as a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria and internationally. We have been consistently ranked as a leading law firm by international legal directories such as Chambers Global and Who’s Who Legal in 2021.
Our team of lawyers are equipped with cross-border legal experience having represented multinationals, financial institutions, government institutions, international law firms, international consultancy firms and High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs). Our team members are highly sought-after resource persons both locally and internationally on some of the most-tasking obstacles to businesses. We prioritize the interests of our clients by providing practical, business-focused advisory and ground-breaking solutions to our clients’ challenges.
Our team advises on a wide range of corporate and company/commercial issues to small and large companies on a variety of complex, contentious and non-contentious projects.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in advising on strategic transactions, partnerships, joint ventures, public and private partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets transactions, corporate structuring, debt finance and tax structures.
The core of our corporate & commercial transactions cuts across generating comprehensive legal and business advisory, conducting due diligence, regulatory compliance, contract negotiation, drafting, and review, deal/transactions structuring, consultancy, wealth divestment, liquidations, legal documentation, and providing guidance to our clients to help avoid legal pitfalls during the implementation of their business projects.
Our team of litigators, mediators and arbitrators understand the intricate principles of Nigerian law on every conceivable subject dispute involving private citizens, corporate entities or governmental agencies.
Over the years, our team has articulated instructive points of law and successfully expanded the frontiers and limitations of the law before superior Courts across the country.
Our lawyers are renowned experts in all areas of labour & employment matters in Nigeria and globally. We provide labour advisory and representation that help our clients navigate the ever-changing landscape of labour and employment laws with a view to achieving their business objectives. We advise various multinational and indigenous companies on their employment law and regulatory concerns. We are positioned to advise human resources professionals, executives, and recruitment agencies on a wide range of complex HR management, labour and industrial relations issues such as:
Famsville is a destination point for various creatives and entertainers for quality advisory on the intellectual property rights. Our IP group has the technical experience to help clients with the most sophisticated IP problems.
Our team provides solid advisory on the most efficacious methods of establishing and developing IP rights so clients can realize the utmost value from those intellectual assets.
We focus on leveraging our clients’ intellectual property to help them achieve success in the marketplace. We assist entrepreneurs, creatives and companies in selecting, protecting, commercializing, and defending their IP rights, including:
Our IP experts offer clients’ portfolio management and strategic advice on obtaining and protecting valuable intellectual property. We also represent a wide range of clients, from the creative industry. We represent all our clients zealously and creatively, using our experience to effectively provide top-quality services.
We provide unparalleled legal services to our clients in the Real Estate and Construction sector. We provide legal assistance for the acquisition of landed properties, property/facility management services, construction, project financing, registration of title, conducting due diligence on properties, tenant relations, structuring of real estate transactions and using creative financing and planning techniques to maximize cash flow and tax benefits.
Famsville has the experience, team, processes and relationships to help investment property owners achieve their financial goals by implementing a personalized, consultative transaction/project specific approach. We provide critical direction to our client’s crossroad decisions in both residential and commercial real estate.
We are results-oriented, with a proven track record of success; our statement of qualifications speaks for itself. We have the experience and unique background to provide our clients with a special single point of contact service.
