
ABOUT G. ELIAS
We were founded in 1994 and have become one of Nigeria’s leading business law firms. We have always had an international outlook. We have a reputation for, and an outstanding record of, carrying out critical, innovative and complex work to the highest standards of excellence.
We have advised and represented our clients on several of the most significant recent developments in Nigerian business law practice. We do corporate, financial, disputes, tax, energy, projects, commerce and "NewEconomy" law work for businesses. We also advise private clients and governmental organizations.
Our corporate work includes mergers and acquisitions, compliance, private equity and employment practices. Banking, capital markets, derivatives and structured products and insolvency law are central elements in our finance practices.Our disputes practices include litigation, arbitration and administrative hearings.
Our energy sectors are the oil-and-gas and electric power sectors. The real estate, transport and other infrastructure, construction and mining sectors are at the heart of our projects work. We engagein both traditional commerce and “"new economy"” practices.
Our commerce law work is on trade competition law, raw materials, manufactured goods, cross-border trade, transport and other services. The “NewEconomy” sectors are intellectual property, telecommunications and technology, media and entertainment.
Our clients in these practices and sectors are of many nationalities and every size. They range from dominant global multinational enterprises to ambitious, home-grown fledglings, from government-controlled enterprises (we have advised on numerous privatizations) to companies controlled entirely by private sector actors.
We have and maintain complementary contacts in Nigerian business and government circles, and with law firms and lawyers’ organizations based both in and outside Nigeria. We are members of Multilaw, a leading global alliance of independent law firms with offices in 100 countries, over 11,000 lawyers and an aggregate of more than USD6bn in revenues.
Practice areas
Business
GENERAL CORPORATE LAWYERS
We have extensive experience in work relating to:
- Foreign direct investment
- Strategic investments
- Privatizations
- Reconstructions
- Group re-organisations
- Corporate governance
- Compliance
- Solvent liquidations
Contact our Corporate Lawyers
To find out how our corporate lawyers can help you or to arrange an initial consultation with us, please complete our online enquiry form or contact us on +234 1 4607890 or +234 1 2806970 .
Lawsuits & Disputes
LITIGATION LAWYERS
We have advised and successfully represented leading clients in virtually every sector of the economy on matters that were critical, novel, complex, large and in the news. Our lawyers are experienced in handling trials and appeals, dispositive motions and motions for stays and injunctions.
We work with speed, thoroughness and imagination, and with clarity as to goals, strategy and options from as early in the life of a dispute as possible. We focus on achieving our clients’ commercial aims and with an eye on what is realistic and practical. We also audit and manage large portfolios of disputes proceedings.
We have had notable success in the courts in, for example:
- Defending leading multinational organizations in product liability litigation
- Resisting attempts to impose huge but illegal fines on multinational organizations
- Resisting attempts to impose unconstitutional taxes on business organization s
- Registering and enforcing in Nigeria judgments given by foreign courts
- Resisting attempts to stop imminent capital markets transactions
- Resisting attempts to stop imminent acquisitions transactions
- Representing an inventor in seminal telecommunications software patents validity litigation
- Representing employers in class and representative actions filed by employees
- Representing financial institutions in suits and counterclaims filed by large bank debtors against banks
- Representing the defence in criminal prosecutions on a pro bono basis
Contact our Litigation Lawyers
To find out how our litigation lawyers can help you or to arrange an initial consultation with us, please complete our online enquiry form or contact us on +234 1 4607890 or +234 1 2806970.
Intellectual Property
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYERS
We work frequently on assignments to protect intellectual property rights in multiple jurisdictions, on mergers and acquisitions transactions where intellectual property rights are key, and on:
- Registration of patents and trademarks
- Litigation
- Oppositions
- Licensing
- Transfers and disposals
- Portfolio protection monitoring
- Foreign currency remittances to licensors
- “Due Diligence” inquiries
- Renewals
Contact our Intellectual Property Lawyers
If you would like to discuss your intellectual property matters with our team, get in touch today to arrange an initial consultation by completing our online enquiry form or calling us on +234 1 4607890 or +234 1 2806970.
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