If you want your business to be successful, you need more than just a good legal technician to help you achieve your objectives. You need lawyers and law firms who, individually and institutionally, have a commercial understanding of your legal issues and interests. This is what makes the difference between an acceptable legal result and a great business success.
Solola & Akpana is the legal partner you need. In addition to offering a complete range of corporate/commercial law services, our Corporate/Commercial Practice Group includes six focus areas of practice that are essential to the success of your enterprise.
Our team includes seasoned professionals in each of these areas, allowing us to produce a coordinated and multi-perspective understanding of each client’s goals and expectations, with unsurpassed levels of cost-effectiveness that help our clients achieve a solid positive return on their investment in our services.
This sector illustrates perfectly how combining our deep knowledge in the sector with our exceptional love for our craft results in shared success for us and our clients.
Our lawyers are experienced in the legal, regulatory, and economic challenges of establishing and operating a successful energy or natural resources enterprise in Nigeria. We work in this field every day. Our lawyers, regardless of their primary practice focus, are ready to support the central role of our Energy/Natural Resources Practice Group to deliver unrivalled service to the business community in Nigeria and to investors worldwide.
We take it even further. We also help our clients not only to respond to the increasingly sophisticated changes and challenges of compliance with environmental laws and regulations, but also to anticipate them to avoid greater risks in the future.
It is often said that people are one of the most important assets for a business. However, people are more than just an asset. We understand this all too well, and we know that managing people requires ongoing care and can also sometimes imply serious legal risks.
We guide our clients through the obstacles related to managing their people by delivering commercially-aware and cost-effective advice and support through all stages of their experiences with their employees – from hiring, through workforce structuring and human resources management compliance, to the eventual end-of-employment relationship.
More than this, we not only help our clients respond appropriately and efficiently to problems when they arise, but also help them spot and understand legal vulnerabilities and practical risks in their employment and human resources management policies and procedures.
Disputes are an unhappy facet of business life. Even when you win, they can be costly, time-consuming, and distracting from your business objectives and daily operations.
Our goal is to reduce these burdens by assembling a team of legal experts and skilled advocates who understand your interests inside out – not only in the dispute, but beyond it – and are committed to obtaining the best possible results, whether by alternative dispute resolution methods, formal arbitration, or, if necessary, full litigation.
Data is the new gold. However, it is vital to treat this data with respect and to be compliant with data protection regulations. With our mastery of this topic, we are the perfect partner to help you gain the most value out of your data protection efforts.
With the advent and recognition of data privacy rights and obligations in Nigeria pursuant to which the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation, 2019 (the NDPR), the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation: Implementation Framework 2020 (the NDIF), and the Guidelines for the Management of Personal Data by Public Institutions in Nigeria, 2020 were enacted, it is imperative for companies, public institutions and individuals who control and process personal data of individuals to comply with the NDPR.
As a Data Protection Compliance Organization (DPCO) licensed by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), we have an extensive understanding of the documentary, procedural and organizational measures required by entities and individuals to remain data protection compliant within the purview of the relevant laws.
Tax laws affect everything that our clients do. This means our advice must be legally skilled and commercially aware, and is typically a product of the deployment of minimisation/avoidance techniques. There is no room for error, and our team of skilled experts are more than prepared to deliver the value our clients expect.
In fact, we meet this challenge head on by embedding our tax expertise in all our services to both corporate and private clients. We ensure that every lawyer assigned to the transaction or case proactively asks about, is aware of, and understands any significant tax issues or implications, and is prepared to propose realistic options for the client. This means that our clients can be confident that we have considered any probable impact of Nigerian tax laws and regulations on their decisions and initiatives.