M.I Dikko & Associates is a prominent law firm of professional legal practitioners nestled in Abuja with associates office in Lekki Lagos State and branches in Lafia, Nassarawa state, and the city of Jos, Plateau state of Nigeria. It was founded in 2013 by the Principal Partner, Ishaka M. Dikko SAN, Notary Public of Nigeria.
The firm has since made its mark in the legal profession, winning celebrated cases in the Supreme Court of Nigeria, lower courts, and election petition tribunals. M.I Dikko & Associates is built on honesty and transparency, harboring the utmost dedication to obtaining justice for its client. Their practice areas include Civil Litigation, Family Law, Electoral Matters, Commercial/Corporate/Capital market Law, Criminal Defence, Arbitration, and Entertainment Law.
Our team of lawyers have had course to review, revise and or total re-draft of the documents that constitute commercial agreements with third parties. The review aims at determining the legal and commercial implication of commercial agreements clauses on our client’s businesses. We engage the relevant parties in interactive sessions for the purposes of appreciating the party’s objectives. These discussions would subsequently form the basis of determining the best approach for mitigating risk that may be identified after a review of commercial agreement.
Our objective is usually to advice and re-draft the clauses in the contractual documents, replace any defective clause with simpler friendly clauses which mirrors our client’s business while keeping it comprehensive enough to effectively and adequately protect the interest of the client.
In addition, our lawyers have been involved in the incorporation of companies, interfacing with regulatory authorities in ensuring compliance with statutory forms for company registration, preparation of Memorandum and Article of Association, facilitation of Stamp Duty of incorporation documents payable to Federal Inland Revenue Service, preparation of Board of Resolutions authorizing incorporation of a limited liability company, approving share capital and appointing company representatives, preparation of Board Resolutions appointing Directors and Company Secretary. Other include procurement of corporate seals for shareholders, procurement of corporate seals for incorporated entity, collation and review of application documentation, follow-up and obtaining of certificates of incorporation and general commercial legal advice.
Criminal Defence is at the core of our practice area while ensuring that the rights of Defendants charged with criminal cases are adequately protected. Our approach underpins a rigorous evaluation of every case, indicating prospect of success or failure and exploring possible techniques of disposing the cases against our client by establishing precedent of how such cases have been decided.
In addition, we make suggestion for compromise where appropriate and possible arbitration to corporations or individuals to forestall litigation or a reoccurrence of the issues that led to litigation. In effect, we ensure an in-depth legal audit on each case which is usually sufficient for victory in our criminal defense / arbitration practice.
Our capital market team provides advisory roles on capital market transaction and representation in capital market related dispute for the efficient mobilization and allocation of short- and long-term financial resources for both government and private sector on projects that can be funded through the capital market transaction activities and sector of the economy. These include economic and social infrastructure projects, roads, telecommunication, power, energy supplies, housing facilities and mass transit facilities amongst others. Over the years the firm has handled a broad range of intellectual property briefs relating to copy right litigation, intellectual property disputes, sponsorship disputes & agreement and recording contracts etc.
Our lawyers provide practical and insightful advice relating to family matters ranging from child management, cohabitation, divorce, domestic violence, probate and will contest. The Firm also handles litigation in connection to declaration of nullity and annulment of marriage, adaptation, support and succession.
Whereas, the Sports Law Team assist sporting personalities in achieving various sporting endeavors most notably in football and gaining international fans.
Also, our lawyers in the entertainment practice help in drafting, reviewing and negotiating co-production agreements, agency and management agreement, recording contract, distribution agreements, master synchronization licenses and interfacing with regulators.
Our Civil Litigation Team represents business entities, organizations and individuals in civil matters. Civil Litigation is a legal dispute between two or more parties in which one party is claimed to have committed a wrong, but not a crime.
The Firm’s civil litigation lawyers represent clients in civil trials, hearings, arbitrations and mediations before administrative agencies, Federal and State courts. Our lawyers have experience assisting clients involved in Contract Dispute, Class Action, Deceptive Trade Practices, Investment Disputes, Shareholder and Stockholder Disputes and Business Disputes etc.
