Our Practice Areas:
Corporate / Commercial
Energy / Natural Resources
Labour / Industrial Relations
Litigation / Arbitration
Data Protection Compliance
Taxation / Corporate Governance

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Banking and Corporate Finance

Banking and Corporate Finance

We offer a complete range of specialised services for commercial banks and other financial institutions operating in Nigeria, with commercially-aware, comprehensive advice on all international and domestic banking operations, aimed at adding maximum value and complete compliance. We also advise foreign and national enterprises on some of their most strategic financing transactions.

Our leading services:

  • Financial Investor term sheet preparation
  • PSSP, PTSP, and Super-Agency documentation/regulatory compliance
  • AML/CFT compliance documentation
  • Debt recovery
  • Commercial banking and regulatory compliance
  • Local and foreign currency loan agreements/forex transactions regulatory compliance
  • Loan structuring and syndication
  • Secured and unsecured loan arrangements
  • Mortgages
  • Legal advisory in Paytech and Lendtech

Examples of the value we’ve delivered for clients

  • Acted as transaction counsel to a Fintech/payments entrant in advising on PSSP and PTSP regulatory regime, issued roadmap to Fintech entrant, implementation, and negotiation of service level agreements with payment processors, super-agents, settlement agreements with commercial banks, and technical services agreements with foreign software companies
  • Advised sundry companies cutting across the oil & gas, gaming, construction, and financial services sectors on forex transactions compliance
  • Represented a client whose corporate accounts were placed on a PND by Nigeria’s apex regulatory bank
  • Advised an oil servicing firm on the assignment of its foreign exchange receivables to ensure compliance with extant foreign exchange laws in Nigeria
  • Frequently advise on loan syndication transactions, and acted on behalf of a manufacturer client in a N100 million loan syndication
  • Acted for a leading commercial bank in the recovery of a non-performing trade finance debt of approximately US$25 million, granted by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to a local oil service company for the purchase of a vessel to service a contract with a major oil company
  • Acted as solicitors to a major Nigerian bank in raising US$20 million by private placement
  • Provided a full range of merger and acquisition services, including representation in regulatory proceedings for a Nigerian bank