Seniority, not scale
The partner who accepts an instruction argues it. We keep the bench deliberately small so judgment is never delegated downwards to fill a billing sheet.
About the firm
Built for the matters
that decide things.
Osborne Law Practice is a multi-disciplinary Nigerian firm with offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, advising corporates, financial institutions, public bodies and private clients on the questions they cannot afford to get wrong.
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Our story
A practice assembled around judgment.
The firm was established to answer a plain frustration among Nigerian institutions: counsel who win the pitch and then disappear from the file. We built the opposite — a compact bench of senior lawyers who take instructions personally and stay with the matter from intake to judgment, enforcement or completion.
Our head office sits in the Osborne Foreshore Estate in Ikoyi, minutes from the Lagos courts, with further offices in Port Harcourt and Abuja. Between them we appear before trial courts, tribunals, arbitral panels, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Mandates are staffed across disciplines from day one. A recovery question that carries a tax exposure and an insolvency consequence is answered once, in one opinion, by the lawyers who will have to defend it.
Enquiries acknowledged
Within 1 business day
Matter reporting
After every hearing
Fee terms
Agreed in writing, upfront
Conflicts clearance
Before any engagement
What we hold to
Four commitments, kept in writing.
These are not aspirations on a wall. They govern how a file is opened, staffed, reported and closed.
Preparation as strategy
Files are built backwards from the outcome we intend to obtain. Every authority, witness and exhibit earns its place before a hearing date is taken.
Commercial candour
Clients are told the realistic range of outcomes at the outset, including the cases we would not advise taking to judgment.
Discretion by default
Sensitive mandates are staffed narrowly, reported privately, and never traded for publicity.
Milestones
A short history, deliberately built.
Growth has followed the courts and the clients — never the other way round.
2019
The practice is registered
Osborne Law Practice is founded in Lagos as a multi-disciplinary firm serving corporate, individual and sovereign clients.
2020
A portfolio inherited
The firm acquires the practice and case portfolio of a leading senior advocate's chambers, adding decades of reported litigation.
2022
Port Harcourt opens
An energy and disputes office is established in Old GRA to serve upstream, midstream and financing clients in the Niger Delta.
2024
Abuja and the appellate bench
A regulatory and appellate office opens in the Central Business District, close to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
2026
Cross-disciplinary teams
Tax, insolvency and litigation counsel now sit on the same mandate from day one, so exposure is answered in one opinion.
People & sectors
Lawyers who know the industry, not just the statute.
Our counsel and support team work alongside correspondent lawyers across Nigeria and abroad, and we brief technical experts early where a matter turns on valuation, accounting or engineering evidence.
Banking & FinanceEnergy & Natural ResourcesTelecommunicationsReal Estate & ConstructionManufacturing & FMCGPublic Sector & RegulatorsMaritime & LogisticsTechnology & Fintech
Chambers & PartnersThe Legal 500Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)Chartered Institute of TaxationNigerian Bar AssociationBusiness Recovery & Insolvency PractitionersChambers & PartnersThe Legal 500Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)Chartered Institute of TaxationNigerian Bar AssociationBusiness Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners
In their words
Judged by the people who instruct us.
“They took over a matter three years into trial and turned it. The clarity of advice was the difference — we always knew our exposure.”
Group General Counsel
Listed manufacturing group
“Responsive, commercially minded and genuinely fearless in court. Our recovery portfolio has never been managed better.”
Head of Remedial Assets
Tier-1 Nigerian bank
“The tax team dismantled an assessment that two other firms had told us to settle. Rare judgment.”
Chief Financial Officer
Multinational FMCG
Where we sit
Three offices, one standard.
Lagos
Osborne Foreshore Estate, Phase II, Ikoyi
Port Harcourt
Old GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Abuja
Central Business District, FCT
Instruct us
Bring us the matter you cannot afford to lose.
A partner reviews every enquiry personally and responds within one business day.