FOLEGAL is a trusted Law Firm in Nigeria providing outstanding regulatory, litigation and transactional solutions to clients’ most complex challenges. We combine the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to creatively solve our clients’ toughest challenges and deliver practical advice, whenever and wherever they arise.
Headquartered in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, we boast of Lawyers with proven records of handling critical work to the highest standards.
We have consistently nurtured a collegial approach among our lawyers, assuring effective teamwork in handling clients’ work, while maintaining a culture of providing exceptional legal counsel with a clear focus on value. Referrals from clients and counter parties constitute a good portion of our new briefs.
We undertake regulatory, litigation and transactional work for public and private companies, private individuals, Nigerian and foreign investors, local and international nonprofits, foreign law firms and international consultancy firms and governments.
At FOLEGAL, we are Client-driven and result-oriented. Our engagement model is a process of immersion. We diligently seek to understand business/individual’s purpose or objective and provide a tailored, sound, and effective solution that addresses and achieve them.
We provide general Corporate Advisory services to national and international companies, operating in Nigeria. The core of our practice is our ability to provide pragmatic and innovative solutions to our clients for the effective implementation of their business goals.
We help our client’s business navigate successfully through legal complexities and regulatory pitfalls in addition to leveraging our team’s market foresight and bank of experience to thrive in the global economy.
We have a team of business-oriented, qualified, and experienced Lawyers who understand that our clients’ business must drive value and avoid risk; we can read writings on the wall and draft up a progressive approach towards establishing our clients’ position and maximizing opportunities.
Our services are targeted towards private and public companies, local and foreign investors, joint ventures, start-ups, new subsidiaries and business ideas as a legal entity.
FOLEGAL’s corporate and commercial law practice offers a wide range of advisory services, including due diligence and company secretarial services, drafting, reviewing and amending contracts, corporate structuring, corporate governance, regulations of corporations, the organization and mode of subscription of capital, transferability of shares, composition of the board and management, drafting various legal documents, negotiating on behalf of clients, representing clients in court and anticipating legal concerns for clients.
Human rights are meaningless if they cannot be enforced. This is why our Human Rights and Civil Liberties lawyers are dedicated to ensuring access to justice for our clients.
We pride ourselves in offering the same level of commitment, attention to detail and expertise across the board to ordinary people, campaigning groups, NGOs, charities and companies.
At FOLEGAL, we help our clients to challenge and defend acts of violation against human rights, civil liberties and the rule of law. Our team help clients to challenge the lawfulness of decisions, acts, omissions and policies of public bodies and authorities.
We work on cases relating to unlawful and/or prolonged detention, police and other state authorities misconduct, personal injury, judicial review of decisions taken by authorities, inquest and public enquiry, representation of peaceful and/or political protesters, freedom of expression and complex environmental violation cases.
Our solicitors are instructed not only by individuals who have experienced human rights abuses, we also advise activists, companies, pressure groups and union, governments and represent a wide range of organisations including leading NGOs in strategic litigation.
At FOLEGAL, we are proficient in handing labour, employment and corporate immigration matters to the highest standards.
We have an excellent record of handling labour and employment disputes, as well as advising on sensitive severance issues and boardroom disputes, corporate governance and more standard disciplinary and grievance issues.
Likewise, our lawyers have substantial transactional experience, and are highly skilled at helping our clients effectively manage cases relating to employment advisory and litigation, redundancies and dismissals, service agreements, contract of employment and HR handbook, pension and superannuation, consular services, corporate immigration, document procurement and authentication, expatriate mobility services, human capital management and employment audit, executive compensation and incentives plans, labour mergers, acquisition and sale of business, and general labour and employment dispute resolution services.
Our lawyers offer representation for clients at National Industrial Courts, tribunal, appellate courts, administrative panels and offer trade union recognition and negotiation services.
We work with HR and in-house counsel teams to ensure that the business objectives of clients are met while equally ensuring international labour standards.
Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Risk Management
At FOLEGAL, our dispute resolution lawyers are proficient in litigating and arbitrating complex disputes arising from any of our areas of practice. Our strength lies in our team’s commitment to resolve disputes with a view of protecting client’s interest.
We manage all aspects of litigation process such as client meetings/briefing, research, preparation of processes, pre-trial conference to trial, settlement and appeals when necessary.
We represent clients at High Courts, National Industrial Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Panels and Tribunals, Public Hearings and strategic meetings.
Our litigation team creatively provide risk management services. We view ourselves as an arm of clients’ business, working as trusted advisors who provide proactive, integrated counsel that is only possible with a deep understanding of our clients’ business objectives and strategies.
We are well-positioned to address the full spectrum of risks clients face in their businesses and to manage the combined impact of those risks as an interrelated risk portfolio.
Drawing on capabilities from across the firm, we help clients navigate the immediate issues and develop long-term solutions and exit strategies to complex, multi-faceted legal challenges. Put simply, we partner with our clients to integrate legal strategy into the wider framework of their business objectives.
At FOLEGAL, our real estate lawyers are proficient in representing our clients in all facets of commercial real estate transactions in Nigeria.
Because we understand that real estate transactions cut across a wide spectrum of disciplines, we structure our real estate practice to meet our client’s diverse needs. This is why our real estate team is made up of highly experienced, multidisciplinary lawyers who apply their high-level real estate knowledge to a wide range of complex business transactions.
We advise on a broad spectrum of commercial, recreational, and residential real estate, including structured equity, structured debt, and hybrid structures.
Our clients benefit from our significant experience in advising on complex, long-term projects that involve acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, joint ventures, distressed real estate workouts, drafting documentation, facilitating negotiations, conducting due diligence, navigating legal and regulatory issues and, when necessary, litigating on their behalf.
We have a strong team of insolvency and asset recovery specialists. We act for companies, banks, funds, other financial institutions, officeholders and other stakeholders including lenders, directors, shareholders, investors and debtors.
Our lawyers have a deep understanding of client’s needs in this area of practice; which is why it becomes seamless for us to provide practical, commercial and cost-effective solutions in contentious insolvency and asset recovery matters.
We work on refinancing, workouts and turnaround strategies, asset recovery disputes, directors' duties and misfeasance, insolvency disputes, fraud investigation, restructuring disputes and more recently, Covid-19 related insolvency disputes.
Where necessary, we draw on the expertise of our litigation specialists in trusts, employment, competition, financial crime and tax to provide comprehensive insolvency litigation and asset recovery services to our clients.
