CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL

Our Corporate / Commercial work encompasses advice and the incorporation of companies to the registration of business names and registered charities.

 We undertake due diligence on company searches as well as company secretarial work. Our corporate / commercial group specializes in advising foreign entities wishing to incorporate, establish joint ventures or purchase shares in Nigerian companies.

We also advice on mergers and acquisition, sales and purchases of businesses and shares and restructuring.

Our commercial unit advices on all aspects of commercial and business law ranging from general contractual drafting and advice to employment law.

 We undertake both non-contentious and contentious company work relating to companies and business.
We act for major Nigerian businesses and have more recently acted for the foreign companies setting up educational business in Nigeria.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL
E. C. Osammor & Co acts as Company Secretary to various companies. We ensure full corporate regulatory compliance in filling of annual returns and other fillings at the Corporate Affairs Commission as well as attending company meetings and drafting minutes resolutions and other corporate documents. We thereby ensure that the company is up to date and in full compliance with its regulatory obligations. Our company secretarial service benefits small companies easing their resources as well as larger companies without in house legal departments. Our company secretarial services can be used separately from other work or as part of a retainer. Our approach is to dedicate a lawyer who will liaise with the company. We encourage our lawyer to become an integral part of the company its providing the service, to ensure he obtains an in-depth knowledge of the company's business and its industrial sector.

INSOLVENCY
Corporations live, grow and die at E. C. Osammor & Co we assist in corporate insolvency, liquidation and restructuring. We have experience in both voluntary and compulsory winding up and have acted for creditors as well as shareholders procedural companies and other interested parties. In this technically legally area. We have highly experienced lawyers who will ensure full regulatory compliance and ensure speedy resolutions. Whether used as a means of recovering debts or to restructure, we believe that our approach, understanding and experience will ensure that our client will receive the best legal advice. We believe our clients will benefit from our expertise in this. In this technical and complex area of law.


COMPANY FORMATION
We undertake the incorporation of various business articles such as Limited Liability, Business Name (sole proprietorship) and Incorporated Trustees. We act for foreign client wishing to enter into the Nigerian business environment either alone or as Joint Ventures. Our expertise includes advising on most suitable business entity, on Shareholders Agreements and Joint Venture Structure. We provide transactional advice in restructuring in establishing of group and holding companies in post incorporation matters such as changes of company Articles, Directors and Shareholding. We believe in achieving our client's aim cost effectively and speedily.


Whereas, others take a mechanical approach, ours is not to take in purely mechanic approach. We believe that the foundation of every successful enterprise starts from its formation therefore we provide in depth advice and superior technical drafting of all construction documents.

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  1. Incorporation of Nigeria Czeh Trade Association ltd/Gte
  2. Restructuring of one of Nigeria's largest baryte mining and processing companies.
  3. Restructuring of one of Nigeria foremost international education providers with interests in the United Kingdom, Nigeria and Dubai.
  4. Company retainership for various private companies.
  5. Formation of joint venture, drafting of shareholders agreement and restructuring of joint venture between major Nigerian bank and major Swiss bank.