Practice areas/Standing counsel and notarial acts
06 Corporate Advisory & Notarial
Company secretarial services, perfection of proprietary interests, intellectual property and day-to-day counsel.
The practice
What instructing us on corporate advisory & notarial looks like.
A retainer with the practice gives a board direct access to senior counsel for the questions that arrive without warning — a demand letter, a regulator's visit, a counterparty that has stopped paying.
Alongside that standing advice we maintain statutory records, perfect security and title, register intellectual property, and provide notarial services for documents intended for use abroad.
Scope of work
- Company secretarial and statutory compliance
- Board advisory and governance reviews
- Perfection of security and title documents
- Commercial contracts and joint ventures
- Trademark, patent and copyright registration
- Notarial attestation, authentication and legalisation
Who we act for
How we work
Judgement applied in a particular order.
The discipline changes; the method does not. These are the decisions we take first on every mandate in this practice.
Available, not queued
Retainer clients reach a partner directly. Most questions are answered the day they are asked.
Documents that hold
Perfection, stamping and registration are completed and evidenced, not left as a task for the next transaction to discover.
Commercial register
Advice is written for the board that must act on it, in language that survives being forwarded.
Selected record
Where this practice has been tested.
Group-wide governance and secretarial retainer
Advisory
Perfection of security over industrial property
Lands Registry
Trademark portfolio registration and enforcement
Trademarks Registry
Common questions
Asked before most instructions.
What does a retainer cover?
An agreed monthly scope of advisory access, document review and secretarial work, with contentious matters quoted separately.
Can you notarise documents for use outside Nigeria?
Yes. We notarise and, where required, arrange authentication and legalisation for the destination country.
Consult us
Put the corporate advisory & notarial question to a partner.
Every enquiry is read by a partner, cleared for conflicts and acknowledged within one business day. Urgent injunctive or enforcement matters are triaged the same day by telephone.