DEBT RECOVERY & INSOLVENCY

The Firm undertakes loan recovery activities and renders quality advice and opinion to a large clientele base in the banking industry and other large corporations. The Firm’s reputation as the best hand in the debt recovery business spans several decades having rendered its services to major players in the sector with a record of debt recovery of over N780,000,000,000.00 [Seven Hundred and Eighty Billion Naira] between 1993 till date in the banking sector alone.

This feat of an average of 95% recovery of the sum secured; single handedly earned the Firm special recognition from the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN).

Furthermore, the Firm has developed a result oriented approach to debt recovery, utilizing a combination of moral suasion where fraud is in existence, ingenuity and considerable help from Law Enforcement Agencies such as the Police, the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) and more particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which measures have in times past proved very effective and successful to the satisfaction of our Clients.

A good number of banks, other financial institutions and commercial organizations have benefited immensely from our excellent track record on debt recovery actions and ancillary matters. We place a high premium on defining and protecting the Client’s interest in designing appropriate legal measures to meet the peculiar needs of our clients.

REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY CONVEYANCING

The Firm acts principally in this area for corporate clients, embassies, banks, estates and private individuals. We advise routinely on a variety of commercial and residential lettings and investment as the Firm has the requisite expertise needed for the negotiation and execution of asset acquisition, registration, development, management and disposition.

CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE

The extensive nature of business, social contacts and knowledge of the environment places the Firm at a strategic advantage to proffer solutions to corporate issues.

The Firm provides a broad range of commercial and corporate services to multinational companies particularly in the oil and gas and derivatives sector of the Nigerian market. We have garnered considerable experience in advising on commercial agreements that provide the structure in which business activities are conducted locally, these include joint venture and shareholders agreements, marketing franchise, licensing and distribution agreements, equipment leasing, technology acquisition etc.

The Firm has considerable expertise in providing a broad range of services on the formation, operation and capital financing of various forms of business enterprises.

Our Firm’s activities also include rendering detailed and comprehensive legal opinions in the areas of public offers and private placement, equity capital work, innovative debt capital work, acquisitions, disposals and debt recovery.

MARITIME & SHIPPING LAW PRACTICE

The Firm provides firsthand legal services on maritime and shipping laws including compliance of regulations and settlement of issues arising from maritime operations.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (PATENT, TRADEMARKS & COPYRIGHTS)

At Oluwakemi Balogun LP, we understand the essence of intellectual property rights to fostering innovation and the need to protect our Clients’ businesses and ideas. We undertake registration of Patents, Copyright, Trademarks and Industrial designs. The Firm has also recorded success in prosecuting infringement on Intellectual Property rights.

Without doubt, the extensive nature of business, social contacts and knowledge of the environment provides the Firm its formidable ability to network effectively with the executive branch of government at Federal and State levels, including a significant number of major quasi-government agencies, and the clout to deal with them and get things done.

LITIGATION, ARBITRATION & ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

The Firm believes strongly in settlement of disputes out of Court and encourages same because it unifies and strengthens the relationship between the parties and the society at large. As a policy, all moves of settlement are explored before, during and after instituting a suit against a party on behalf of its Client.

Where litigation occurs, the Firm deploys all available resources including a team of lawyers grounded in research and advocacy skills, a comprehensive library, top-notch legal research facilities and network to pursue its client’s matter to a logical and successful conclusion.

The Firm undertakes civil and criminal matters in all the Superior Courts of record in the Country and has recorded and continues to record outstanding success in clients’ (corporate and private) matters.

“There is plenty of room at the top because plenty people care to travel beyond the average route, so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.” - Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe