KERE-USENDU & CO. is a modern integrated service Law Firm with mastery in corporate and transactional law practices and dispute resolution. The firm pride itself with its full online presence which enables service delivery round the clock and its highly skilled personnel who galvanize their legal knowledge with innovation, excellence, technology and dynamism which see to the effective delivery of legal solutions to clients across border.
As a team, we partner with outstanding legal practitioners in key areas of legal practice to enable us to render excellent legal services to both public and private industries, individuals and agencies of government while ensuring that the best steps are taken towards attaining the needed solutions at the right time for our clients.
We hold our clients in high esteem while consciously ensuring service delivery in line with the business realities and the peculiarities of our clients’ needs.
KERE-USENDU & CO. as a modern integrated service Law Firm renders well refined legal services to business start-ups and already established business organizations according to their needs. Our services cover all aspect of business and transactional services including Company Incorporation, Business Set-Up, Foreign Participation, Foreign Direct Investment, Regulatory Compliance and Investigation, Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Sales of Assets and Companies, Business Permits and Licenses, Business Dispute Resolution, Company Secretarial Services and Advisory, Commercial Contracts, Shareholders Agreements, Confidentiality Agreement preparation and Review, Insolvency and Debt Recovery, Negotiation and risk management. Being an integrated law firm, we give representation and advice necessary to set-up, acquire, expand, or restructure businesses.
Our firm offers legal services to clients on broad range of employment related matters in a manner that simplifies the complexities common to the employment industry due to the strict regulation by states and the federal governments. Some of the many legal frameworks includes the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), The Labour Act, Cap L1, LFN 2004, Employees’ Compensation Act 2010, Factories Act, Cap F1, LFN 2004, National Health Insurance Scheme Act, Cap N42, LFN 2004, Trade Disputes Act, Cap T8, LFN 2004, Trade Unions Act, Cap T14, LFN 2004 as amended by the Trade Unions (amendment) Act 2005, National Housing Funds Act, Cap N45, LFN 2004 and International Treaties and Protocols relating to Labour, Employment, Workplace, Industrial Relations among others. Some of our services to our clients (government agencies, individuals and private organizations) include but not limited to:
• Comprehensive Legal and Regulatory advisory services to ensure that our clients are in compliance with the law.
• Preparation of Contract of employments, condition of service, non-disclosure agreements, proactive labor and employment practices and policies.
• Representing employers before administrative and regulatory agencies.
• Legal representation of employees before disciplinary committees, Courts and committees of inquiry in order to protect their rights and the negotiation of employees’ benefits.
KERE-USENDU & CO. with its robust practice experience in the Real Estate and Construction industry represents all kinds of key players in the sector in the negotiation, drafting of contract agreements and dispute resolution as well as property management some of which includes landlords and tenants, developers, contractors, subcontractors, builders, agents, buyers and sellers, in both transactional and litigated real estate law matters. Some of our services include but not limited to:
• Legal and Regulatory advisory services to ensure that our clients’ transactions are in compliance with the extant legal framework like the Nigerian National Building Code, Standard Form of Building Contract in Nigeria and the regulatory agencies such as National Council on Housing and Urban Development, National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN) among other regulatory frameworks and agencies at the federal and State levels.
•Legal due diligence of real estate assets belonging to firms and holdings and registration of title to land buildings.
• Comprehensive legal advisory and representation in real estates related matters such as all types of acquisition, financing, development, construction, leases, land use approvals, turnkey contracts, and land development projects.
• Real estate, engineering, and construction dispute resolution through economical and resourceful advisory and solutions based on our knowledge of the law and experience to avoid dispute, but where the dispute is inevitable, we explore all necessary dispute resolution options like ADR, ODR, and Litigation to protect our clients’ interests.
