Services
Niji Oni & Co provides all round Secretarial Services to domestic and foreign companies with Nigerian subsidiaries, ensuring that our client’s corporate affairs are swiftly and efficiently kept in balance and conformity with applicable laws. Our Firm also has an impressive advisory portfolio with bespoke corporate governance, corporate structure, corporate contracts, regulation of corporations, transferability of shares, organization and mode of subscription of capital, composition of the board and management, labour, compensation, staff welfare and pension issues and finance.
Our team of skilled and experienced lawyers facilitate, attend and record board, committee, management and shareholders meetings; file statutory returns with the regulators – Corporate Affairs Commission, Federal and State Inland Revenue Services and the Securities and Exchange Commission; provide technical and practical support to company secretaries and directors by ensuring compliance with the law, regulations, and best practices through our proactive and periodical secretarial/legal audit of our clients.
Experiences
Niji Oni and Co is renowned for its business- oriented approach to legal issues that erupt from day-to-day commercial activities as the team provides strategic legal advice and proactive support to businesses, corporations, and individuals, to assist in navigating a fast-changing corporate world.
At Niji Oni and Co, we pride ourselves in handling a wide range of corporate and capital market transactions including joint ventures, private equities, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, corporate restructuring, banking transactions, debt recovery and insolvency; financing and refinancing transactions; project finance; Funds Managements; Collective Investment Scheme; Capital Raise (Debt and Equity structures); IPOs; corporate advisory in a variety of transactions; due diligence including corporate governance, risk management and regulatory compliance.
Be a growing start-up, multi-national, or a private investor, we have a place for you as our dedicated team will assist you through the business cycle to secure your business and face your challenges head on in a risk-free manner
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AN APPRAISAL OF THE FINANCE BILL 2019
Niji Oni & Co has a team of expert lawyers vast in the knowledge, and applicability of Tax Regimes in Nigeria and are able to advice both local and expatriate workers, as well as individual and corporate entities. We offer tax advisory services in the following areas: Companies Income Tax; Personal Income Tax; Customs and Excise Duties; Value Added Tax; Capital Gains Tax; Stamp Duty; Withholding Tax etc.
Where business activities thrive, disputes are bound to set in. At Niji Oni and Co, we are saddled with the required arsenal to resolve any dispute that may arise in different industries.
Our lawyers are skilful litigators, arbitrators, negotiators and mediation advocates who have mastered the art of advocacy and negotiation.
We provide our clients with the highest standard of legal representation before the superior courts in Nigeria and undertake dispute resolution with a view to achieving the most successful and cost-efficient result which safeguards our clients’ interests. We are skilled in resolving disputes whether by way of litigation, mediation, arbitration or expert determination in various matters spanning insolvency, matrimonial causes, debt recovery, garnishee proceedings, construction contracts, international trade, telecommunication contracts, energy projects, recovery of premises, probate, employment/labour, maritime and aviation disputes before various courts of record.
As the protection of Intellectual Property covers patent, copyrights, trademarks, design etc. and Nigeria being a part of the international treaties such as the Ben Convention and the Trips Agreement, we have, over several decades, seen multi-nationals take advantage of such as evidenced by the high percentage of foreign registration in Nigeria.
However, as we continuously move towards the digital age where content and creativities are becoming a huge importance, we are beginning to see the demand for and appreciate the need for Intellectual Property Right protection in Nigeria in many sectors such as Hospitality, Entertainment and Agriculture (Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals).
At Niji Oni & Co, we are strategically positioned through our partners across Africa, the U.K, and Europe, we have been able to assist in the registration of IP, the opposition of IP, and representation of clients in courts of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria on cases relating to Intellectual Property Right protection.
The Firm also ensures the protection of its client’s rights and interests through the creation of documentation, arrangements, and structures to ensure that risks are mitigated, and the works of its clients are safeguarded under the confines of the law.
Establishing IP Portfolio in Africa.
Establishing IP portfolio in Africa falls under the following divisions (registration under one of the divisions automatically extends to other countries within the division);
- OAPI which includes countries such as; Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo
- ARIPO which includes countries such as; Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Seychelles, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Somalia
- Other Countries not under OAPI or ARIPO: Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Experiences
In line with our expertise and broad experience in this area of practise, we offer full range advisory services to our clients that help create policies and precedents that form the bedrock of commercial activities.
Our services span across every aspect of Employment and Labour, including organizing capacity building trainings and activities for members of staff and management on legal related issues that organizations may encounter from time to time, drafting of employment contracts and relationships that govern employer and employee relationships such as employee handbook, human relations engagements, and much more. Our team also ensures that our clients are constantly up to date with regulatory compliance on schemes such as pension schemes, NSITF, ITF and other related compliances.
At Niji Oni & Co, we prioritise being complaint with all the requirement of the Law and Regulations regulating all sectors in Nigeria and across borders. As a result, we assist our clients maintain regulatory compliance by careful highlighting all the requisite licences, permits, filings, certificates, approvals etc required to operate in their respective sectors whilst also ensuring that our clients are always up to date on issues of renewals etc.
As a way of ensuring our clients’ compliance with regulatory agencies, we have established a strong relationship with regulators in almost all sectors specifically in areas such as National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), State land registries, etc.
Niji Oni and Co is renowned for its business- oriented approach to legal issues that erupt from day-to-day commercial activities as the team provides strategic legal advice and proactive support to businesses, corporations, and individuals, to assist in navigating a fast-changing corporate world.
We pride ourselves in handling a wide range of corporate and capital market transactions including joint ventures, private equities, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, corporate restructuring, banking transactions, debt recovery and insolvency; financing and refinancing transactions; project finance; Funds Managements; Collective Investment Scheme; Capital Raise (Debt and Equity structures); IPOs; corporate advisory in a variety of transactions; due diligence including corporate governance, risk management and regulatory compliance.
Be a growing start-up, multi-national, or a private investor, we have a place for you as our dedicated team will assist you through the business cycle to secure your business and face your challenges head on in a risk-free manner.
Experiences
“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.”
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lawyers@nijioni.com
Office Location
21 Ajanaku Street off Salvation Road, Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos
