The High Stakes Reality of Modern Commercial Disputes Imagine a multi million dollar joint venture agreement between a tech logistics firm in Lagos and a foreign infrastructure investor. When a dispute inevitably arises regarding revenue sharing models or project milestones, the immediate instinct of an aggrieved party might be to rush to the High Court...
Resolving a Long Standing Corporate Dilemma When the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 was introduced, it was hailed as a legislative masterpiece designed to usher Nigerian corporate practice into the twenty first century. Its most celebrated feature was the introduction of single shareholder and single director private companies. For the first time, an entrepreneur,...
The Friction at the Intersection of Code and Law Lagos continues to maintain its undisputed title as the Silicon Valley of West Africa. The sheer volume of capital flowing into fintech, logistics, agritech, and digital media platforms has transformed the regional economy. However, beneath the glamorous headlines of multi million dollar seed rounds and innovative...
For a long time, corporate compliance in many emerging markets was viewed by boards as an administrative exercise, representing a series of forms to be filled out annually, tucked into a drawer, and forgotten until the next fiscal year. Those days are gone in Nigeria. Today’s regulatory climate is defined by assertive supervision, inter agency...