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our expertise

We are equipped to provide the following legal services:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-metals” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”BANKING AND FINANCE”]The firm has over the years distinguished itself through our proven track record in banking and financial institutions’ related litigation, making appearances in disputes involving banks and their customers, banks and regulators, banks inter se, banks and contractually bound entities etc. Our services also extend to preparation, vetting and perfection of security and financial documentation and also include advisory services on compliance and monitoring to banks and financial institutions as well as their regulators.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-home” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL “]Our services and experience herein spans through company/business entity formation to procurement of operational licenses, company secretarial work, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure and project finance, tax advisory, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, public offers, dissolutions, credit transactions and review of credit documentation. The firm also undertakes corporate and commercial services for local clients, international entities, private and public companies, Enterprises located in the Free Trade Zones/Export processing Zones, construction and development companies, start-ups and more.

In addition to the above, the firm also handles outsourcing of legal departments and company secretarial work for business entities.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-polygon” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”DEBT RECOVERY/INSOLVENCY PRACTICE”]The firm undertakes Loan Recovery activities and renders quality advice and opinions to a large clientele base in the Banking Industry and other Commercial Institutions.

Furthermore, the firm has wide versatile experience in the areas of Debt Collection. The firm has developed a result oriented approach to debt recovery, utilizing a combination of moral persuasion, ingenuity with our knowledge of the relevant law in place .We have over the years developed concise, strategic and effective means to engage recalcitrant debtors in a bid to realize the assets of our clients trapped in their possession. The firm employs the machinery of the judicial system by instituting direct action for debt recovery and collection in court; commencing winding up proceedings against debtor companies and filings petitions to appropriate law enforcement agencies.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-building6″ style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”REAL ESTATE/CONVEYANCING”]The firm’s specialization in this regard offers legal support and advisory services ranging from conceptualization to planning, finance, acquisition, obtaining requisite governmental consents/approvals, developmental/construction, and post acquisition/developmental/construction management including sale, mortgage and leasing of both residential and commercial properties. We prepare and perfect leases, agreements, transfers, mortgages, management contracts, trust/investment deeds, finance agreements, development lease agreements and all forms of contractual documents or arrangements relating to land. We also conduct investigations into title registrations, validity and encumbrances in order to obtain the best and most secure deals for our clients and to give them advice on risks involved in property investments. Our expertise in this regard also extends to land and real estate related litigation and dispute resolution.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-line-graph6″ style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”FINANCE & INVESTMENT, JOINT VENTURES, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, PRIVATISATION AND PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP “]We possess the requisite technical legal expertise to advise on and structure complex transactions for our clients from conception to completion as well as post completion management and transfer (where appropriate). The firm has vast experience and expertise on diverse range of commercial arrangements and projects including public and private sector partnership, formation of special purpose vehicles, project finance, loan syndication, loan restructuring and rescheduling, compromise, debt conversion etc. as well as other funding options.

The commercial drive of the firm informs our deep understanding of the economic policy direction of the Government as well as to anticipate likely future policies so that we can advise the Government and their institutions and private clients (both local and foreign) as well as banks who intend to do business or are already doing business in Nigeria on tax issues, regulatory requirements, registrations, compliance, approvals and government incentives. We appreciate the fact that most business concerns want their professional advisory services located in one unit and also place prime importance on the legal services aspect, and have therefore built relationships with financial services and other professional service institutions both locally and internationally so that our clients can leverage on these relationships to either get valued references or find in us a one stop shop for their professional business support requirements.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-nokia” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”DISPUTE RESOLUTION”]TRATTON NECTAR LEGAL’s dispute resolution practice provides a broad range of legal advice and representation for a wide variety of clients. We have expertise in litigation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.  The firm’s litigation practice cuts across various States and Federal High Courts, Specialized Courts, Statutory boards/bodies and tribunals and all appellate courts in Nigeria. The firm appreciates the fact and need for litigation to be a last resort in dispute resolution and as such, when the need arises, deploys all its best efforts within the limits of the law and ethics/rules of professional practice to ensure a speedy resolution of our clients’ cases. Significant experience in our core areas of practice and concerted efforts at improving our competence give us an edge in preparing court processes timeously and also concluding our cases without undue delay.

Our expertise in dispute resolution also includes forms of alternative dispute resolution such as arbitration, mediation, conciliation and negotiation.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-idea” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”]The firm has an extensive experience in patent, trademark, copyright, registration, assignment, renewal and prosecution. The firm represents clients in different sectors and advices them on intellectual property rights and related litigation. Our attorneys have received specialized training that enables them to efficiently and effectively counsel our clients in connection with new trends in intellectual property law development.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-oil” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”OIL AND GAS, POWER, NATURAL RESOURCES AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES”]The firm’s deliberate policy of developing competence and deep knowledge of the policy directives of Government and the regulatory requirements have placed us in a vantage position to offer and provide legal solutions for our clients that operate in this very important and strictly regulated sector of the economy. Our services and experience include the preparation, negotiation  and review of Production Sharing Contracts; Joint Venture Agreements; Joint Operating Agreements; Farm-In (and out) Agreements; Power Purchase Agreements; Gas Sales and Purchase Agreements; Gas Transportation Agreements; FPSO, EPCC, Green field & Brown field tender documentation and related agreements. We also advise on production assets acquisition, concession licensing, regulatory approvals and consents, procurements etc.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-libra” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”CRIMINAL LAW”]The firm engages in defence and prosecution (on behalf of the state) of all classes and ranges of offences from minor offences to treason and also has vast experience in the prosecution and defence of financial crimes. Our expertise in this area informs the substantial volume of consultancy and advisory services we render to both law enforcement agencies and private persons (artificial and natural).[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-stats” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”LABOUR, EMPLOYMENT AND PENSION”]The firm offers both litigation based and solicitor’s services in employment related matters. We represent employers and employees in trade related disputes before regular courts, specialized courts, arbitration, tribunals and administrative bodies. Our practice herein encompasses obtaining expatriate quota, preparing contracts of employment, legal advisory on restructuring, down/right sizing as well as legal advisory on compliance with the subsisting labour and pension legislations.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-plant7″ style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”ENVIRONMENTAL LAW”]The peculiar nature of the Nigerian economy, particularly, the dependence on natural resources from the extractive industries has opened up the country and producing communities to risks of environmental factors related to exploration, production and utilization of these resources. We have sufficient competence developed mainly through experience and continuous legal education to act for different parties (government, exploration and production and manufacturing companies and host communities) involved in the extractive/manufacturing industries on environmental issues including issues of compliance, pollution claims (and negotiations), advisory services to regulatory bodies etc.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”stm-mans” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”INSURANCE AND PENSION LAW”]Our extensive commercial practice has necessitated development of competence in Insurance Law particularly but not limited to verification of claims, cargo insurance, marine insurance etc. We also offer advisory services on liability for claims and potential claims as well as compulsory statutory requirements on insurance and pension schemes.[/stm_icon_box][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][stm_icon_box hide_title_line=”hide_title_line” enable_hexagon=”enable” enable_hexagon_animation=”enable” icon=”fa fa-anchor” style=”icon_left” icon_size=”15″ icon_width=”78″ title=”SHIPPING, ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME PRACTICE “]Our shipping, admiralty and maritime practice covers advisory services, admiralty  litigation; processing of vessel sales; release of vessels from arrest; and arrest of vessels and cargo; cabotage registration; customs laws relating to importation and exportation of goods; vessel ownership, chartering, construction, financing, mortgage and other shipping and maritime transactions; salvage disputes; marine insurance coverage issues; cargo claims; environmental and maritime regulatory activities; ship navigation, classification, collisions and damage, chartering; ship/flag registration and transfer. We also provide legal and regulatory compliance services in the maritime shipping sector in Nigeria.

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