What We do
Vernia Legal Practitioners is a topnotch professional services firm with expertise in diverse areas of law. We have an extensive mileage and proficiency in providing excellent services for a broad range of corporate and business interests. We deliver responsive, innovative and practical legal solutions in diverse areas including Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Banking, Company Secretarial, Intellectual Property protection, Real Estate, Election Disputes and Insurance.
Since inception our firm has continuously developed particular expertise in top class commercial and financial transactions globally and we have an extensive record of having consistently advised and represented medium to large scale clients who cut across all business sectors both local and international.
With our crave to ensure client satisfaction, the firm is structured into key Practice Areas namely; The Real Estate and Infrastructure Practice, The Corporate& Commercial Practice, The Specialized Transactions Practice, The Dispute Resolution Practice,The Tax Practice and The Family Law Practice.
- Real Estate Practice
- Corporate & Commercial Practice
- Specialized Transaction Practice
- Dispute Resolution Practice
- Tax Practice
- Family Law Practice
Real Estate plays a significant role in individual, business and national life. It therefore simply standsto reason that businesses need to continue to maximize the efficiency of their real estate investments and have a proper grasp of real estate law.
At Vernia Legal, our world-class Real Estate and Infrastructure team has extensive market contacts and in-depth expertise ensuring consistency and efficient service delivery. Our team hasexpansive capabilities to confidently manage and respond to the challenges of land acquisition for individual and corporate clients in this industry by providing innovative solutions beyond basic legal requirements.
Similarly, we help businesses achieve their objectives through infrastructure finance, delivery of myriad structuring or tax-saving solutions; advice on asset restructuring; partnering clients with suitable debt providers; or simply advising investors about current lending trends.
Areas
- Investigation of title to real property, registrations, as well as the preparation of building leases and agreements and finance contracts.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating leases, assignments, tenancy agreements, acquisition, investment, development redevelopment and refinancing, transfers and mortgages and obtaining governmental consents.
- Sale and leaseback arrangements
- Real Estate finance, including commercial mortgage-backed securities transactions
- Real Estate tax structures
- Real Estate aspects of restructuring and insolvency work, including enforcement of security.
- Real Estate contract negotiation, Litigation and transaction review.
Our Corporate and Commercial Practice is strategically structured to serve as a bespoke legal service provider for businesses and firms. Our devotion is on providing tailor-made solutions to the practical problems encountered in the administration of companies and ensuring up –to- date compliance with existing laws while taking cognizance of the business environment in which our clients operate.
We advise a broad spectrum of clients providing qualitative service regardless of their size or structure. This include corporate and company secretarial services for indigenous and international clients. By leveraging on our team’s long standing proficiency in Nigerian Corporate Law Practice, we provide world-class services to the satisfactionof our clients.
Areas
- Company Incorporation
- Company Secretarial
- Capital Market transactions
- Corporate restructuring
- Corporate Governance
- Insurance
- Banking & Finance
- Intellectual Property
- Labour and Employment
Our team specializes in a full spectrum of business transactions and prides itself in giving advice to clients on medium and large scale transactions ranging from contracts, mergers and acquisition, transfer of securities, project finance, Foreign Direct Investments [FDI] amongst others. We negotiate complex joint venture agreements on clients’ behalf and guide them through the various investment laws and relevant statutes guiding their transactions with a view to shield them from avoidable litigation.
Areas
- Infrastructure development
- Public-Private Partnership
- Asset finance
Our highly skilled and experienced Dispute Resolution Team represents clients with the aim of resolving disputes efficiently. This team has also built requisite experience and expertise in resolving issues using alternative and business friendly approaches like arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution windows which have proved to be efficient and key to business growth and environment. The Team is headed by our Managing Partner who has an impressive track recording adopting novel and pragmatic approaches to resolving disputes.
Areas
- Commercial and Civil Litigation
- Criminal Litigation
- Election Dispute
- Commercial Arbitration
- Mediation
Our team integrates innovative tax structuring expertise with the highest quality advisory skills to give clients a comprehensive cross-border tax service. A vast knowledge of the Nigerian Tax Regimes and regulatory framework, places us at a vantage position to provide complex transaction structuring tax advice as well as implementation support to clients. We represent indigenous and international businessesand individuals in tax arbitrations, litigation and negotiations.
Among services which our team renders to clients are contract negotiations, tax compliance reviews, tax risk analysis, taxation of expatriate employees, and interface with relevant regulators.
Our family law practice team at Vernia Legal Practitioners is one of the leading teams in Nigeria. We know that family matters are an extremely sensitive area and we have an outstanding reputation in providing one-to-one support and advice, as well as expert legal services to the admiration of our clients.
Areas
- Probate Matters
- Letters of Administration
- Adoption
- Preparation and lodging of Wills.
- Litigation [Divorce, Maintenance and Custody]
- Immigration
Our Firm
Vernia Legal Practitioners is a leading law firm in Nigeria providing comprehensive legal solutions to both indigenous and international clients.
The firm has diverse expertise in practice areas such as banking and finance, corporate matters, foreign investments, dispute resolution and significant areas such as intellectual property protection, labour and employment laws, business compliance, company restructuring, project finance, amongst others.
Originally established as Abayomi Sadiku and Co. over a decade ago, the firm’s name was modified to reflect the values that stand at the core of our operations. The change was an expression of our vision to become an international law firm, radically deviating from the conventional practice of the law , to a more efficient business of law practice.
Over the years, the Firm has been involved in the establishment and restructuring of several corporate organisations and institutions. Following our detailed research and understanding of the Nigerian commercial environment vis-a-vis emerging global trends in procedural regulatory regimes, our team of impressionable and experienced lawyers are dedicated to provide cutting edge expertise on legal advice and consultation on a vast range of disciplines.
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