Ukiri Lijadu is a full service commercial law Firm with its main offices in Lagos, Nigeria and with an innovative and creative approach to client care. Our corporate philosophy emphasises quality-assured service based on experience, knowledge, expertise, innovation and technology. We continuously seek to add value to our client’s business and we apply care and integrity to all matters assigned to us. The firm has specialized counsel with decades of legal and commercial experience in their respective practice areas. The firm always aims to deliver the best quality legal services to its clients with the highest professional and ethical standards.
We are a client-focused service with a deep commercial awareness of our client’s businesses and business environment. Our aim is to provide effective and efficient solutions to client issues no matter how complex. We thrive on solving difficult problems effectively and elegantly. We are a multi-partner practice spanning several legal disciplines and with outstanding capabilities in all our practice areas. We can deliver a flexible network for knowledge, contacts and legal resources within Nigeria and across the whole of Africa.
We have decades of combined knowledge and experience derived from strategic client relationships, a wide scope of transactions handled and intricate and varied dispute case work. These combine to create a homegrown law practice that confidently navigates the challenges and opportunities in Nigeria and Africa’s emerging market place. U&L can be your one – stop shop for Africa wide legal services. Whether negotiating contracts, securing trade deals, or anticipating potential risks and conflicts, UL employs expertise in local contexts and decades-long cross continent relationships to deliver timely and effective results to every situation based on our extensive network. Our team is made up of the brightest minds who not only understand legal practices across local jurisdictions but also actively use technology and an understanding of business from a business man’s perspective to simplify the processes of interpreting and applying the law. We are at the forefront of developing new, intuitive, and simple legal approaches to the challenges of developing modern economies in areas such as energy and infrastructure, finance and biotechnology, and media and entertainment. We take pride in being able to communicate seamlessly and effectively with domestic and international clients.
This practice constitutes the very fabric of the members of the firm’s experience, the group carries out firm-wide work solely in support of client objectives, providing outcomes that meet the client’s aspirations for the transaction. We partner with clients from conception of the business idea, negotiation, documentation, to transaction close. Members have advised and the firm is legal advisor to several ‘A’ grade-publicly quoted companies and private multinational corporations. We have advised on cross border pan African acquisitions and divestment.
We have extensive experience and strong capacity in all aspects of Commercial work in the value chain, from due – diligence to drafting, to negotiation and innovating fit-for-purpose solutions with a deep understanding of client objectives, values and results. While complex transactions are eminently serviced personal attention is a practice wide hallmark. This is seen in our private client work where personal and important matters are handled with discretion and confidentiality.
In addition to the above are Services also include:
The firm takes an innovative lead in legal services to this sector, we understand the increasing need to ensure proper development while protecting virgin commercial and intellectual property rights in this dynamic and fast growing creative industry.
We partner with our clients from all fields related to the creative arts and entertainment as well as the lifestyle industry in ensuring full protection, documentation and continuing advice and guidance.
Experience and support in this area includes Legal and Regulatory advisory, agency and representation advice, Personal and Company income tax compliance, sign-on and Contract negotiation, production & distribution rights, Transaction (Legal) documentation, Endorsements and sponsorships, Performing artists/Production contracts, Protection of image & commercial rights, film rights of deceased public personalities, re-publishing and e- publishing rights, copyrights and other intellectual property.
The practice services disputes arising from all areas of commercial law. We use the best available civil, commercial or other specialized litigtion remedies to promote or defend the client’s case. The firm has an impressive track record in delivering optimal and positive outcomes for client when disputes occur. We pride ourselves on being able to quickly and accurately assess the client’s position and work with the client to forge a winning strategy to resolve the matter in dispute. As disputes emerge litigation preparation, investigation and research tools are deployed to ensure that the case presented is the ‘best-case’ for client needs leading to effective solutions. At dispute, skillful litigation case management coordinates the use of procedural options and best measures to achieve effective results.
Overall, our litigation strategy is designed to suit the nature of the dispute having regard to the clients best solutions. At the firm we take pride in the availability of eminent and leading arbitration practitioners experienced as counsel and as Arbitrator.
We have recent experience in many areas of commercial arbitration appearing and conducting hearings at ad-hoc and institutional arbitration. In addition our members are acknowledged leaders in:
The practice services disputes arising from all areas of commercial law. We use the best available civil, commercial or other specialized litigtion remedies to promote or defend the client’s case. The firm has an impressive track record in delivering optimal and positive outcomes for client when disputes occur. We pride ourselves on being able to quickly and accurately assess the client’s position and work with the client to forge a winning strategy to resolve the matter in dispute. As disputes emerge litigation preparation, investigation and research tools are deployed to ensure that the case presented is the ‘best-case’ for client needs leading to effective solutions. At dispute, skillful litigation case management coordinates the use of procedural options and best measures to achieve effective results.
Overall, our litigation strategy is designed to suit the nature of the dispute having regard to the clients best solutions. At the firm we take pride in the availability of eminent and leading arbitration practitioners experienced as counsel and as Arbitrator.
We have recent experience in many areas of commercial arbitration appearing and conducting hearings at ad-hoc and institutional arbitration. In addition our members are acknowledged leaders in:
