Practice Areas
Their industries — the legal requirements of their businesses — define our practice areas. Whatever legal challenge our clients' businesses throw up, Synergy Law Partners lawyers are ready to meet these challenges in the most professional, ethical and commonsensical manner.
We encourage all-round training and grounded, specialist thinking. Over the years, we have developed hands-on competencies in diverse branches of commercial law.
Oil and gas — marginal fields, oilfield services, upstream and downstream.
Read more 02Reducing the potential for disputes, and handling them when they arise.
Read more 03Advising new businesses and strategic partnerships from the ground up.
Read more 04Trademarks, patents, copyright — registration, enforcement, commercialisation.
Read more 05Corporate and project finance assignments across Nigeria.
Read more 06Negotiated settlements, litigation in the courts, or arbitration.
Read more 07Assessments, advance rulings, incidence, and related litigation.
Read more 08Navigating the legal issues of the emerging consumer finance market.
Read more 09FDI projects, strategic alliances, franchises, institutional investors.
Read more 10End-to-end conveyancing — investigation, documentation, title perfection.
Read more01 · Practice Area
Synergy Law Partners works for clients in the oil and gas industry — including marginal fields and oilfield services, upstream and downstream — in areas including contract documentation, development of operating templates, review of legislation, dispute resolution, legal opinions, and other representation.
We ensure our clients navigate the complex regulatory landscape with ease, offering tailored solutions that align with their business objectives — from drafting agreements, resolving disputes, or providing strategic legal opinions.
02 · Practice Area
At Synergy, we understand that clients need to focus on their core business, avoiding the disruption and distraction that legal disputes can bring. We therefore consider it an overarching goal to help clients face their core business by conducting their legal affairs in a way that reduces the potential for conflicts. Equally important is the actual handling of disputes when they arise — both through litigation and alternatives to litigation.
The growth of international trade has created the need for an efficient, business-friendly means of resolving trade disputes. Commercial arbitration provides this, with Nigeria a signatory to the 1958 New York Convention for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and other relevant treaties and conventions. Members of the team belong to the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, and have engaged with major disputes whether as party-appointed, presiding, or counsel.
03 · Practice Area
We have been advising clients, including foreign entities establishing new businesses or considering strategic partnerships, on preliminary issues — including forms of business establishments, tax structuring and planning, ongoing regulatory compliance, sector-specific operating licences and permits, labour law and integration considerations.
We prepare foundational sign-on documents including shareholders' agreements, heads of agreements, joint venture agreements, as well as the set-up of special purpose vehicles for the enterprise.
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Our intellectual property practice benefits from continuing professional development of team members. From conceptualising an application to filing, and securing registration, our lawyers keep the clients informed and carried along — anticipating challenges and driving work to resolution.
Our IP rights group has handled a considerable number of matters, including trademark registrations, assignments and transfers; patent applications; claim writing; copyright voluntary registration and enforcement; copyright commercialisation including synchronisation rights, TV rights, screenplay rights, monetisation and performance rights documentation and advisory. Our IP clients include major overseas and national production and distribution companies, including Nigeria's pioneer Netflix-acquired motion picture.
05 · Practice Area
We advise and represent clients in corporate and project finance engagements across Nigeria. Our expertise includes asset verification and sighting, inventory, project finance documentation and implementation, as well as periodic legal audits.
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Our dispute resolution practice takes pride in the resolution of client disputes through a variety of methods. We seek opportunities for a negotiated, structured settlement of disputes. In appropriate cases, we resolve through litigation in the courts or through arbitration.
07 · Practice Area
We advise clients in a diversity of industries on the legal aspects of taxation — including assessments, advance rulings, incidence, as well as litigation. Our taxation team has received specialist training at advanced levels in the Corporate and Industrial Law faculty, and is able to assist clients navigate issues including PAYE, allowances, deductions, reliefs, and related litigation.
08 · Practice Area
Economic expansion has given a boost to the market for consumer finance in Nigeria, re-energising consumer finance growth as financial institutions develop innovative consumer finance products. This has created a new and emerging area of practice in which Synergy Law Partners has assisted clients in the lending industry to navigate all the legal issues.
09 · Practice Area
Our lawyers offer considerable experience in the commercial branch, having worked on a number of successful foreign-direct-investment projects, strategic alliances, franchises and institutional investor projects. Our clients in this discipline range from established corporations, blue-chips to upstart enterprises and small and medium businesses.
Our services include pre-entry planning and preliminary advisory covering a broad range of issues — company structure, forms of strategic business organisation, incorporation, financing considerations, as well as regulatory compliance programmes. Counsel in this area specialise in:
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We advise a growing list of real estate clients on end-to-end issues — from site and title investigation, the conveyancing process, documentation, and title perfection. We have advised the developers of major commercial properties in the Lagos CBD, as well as residential estates in the greater Lekki Peninsula area.
Whatever legal challenge your business throws up, Synergy Law Partners lawyers are ready to meet it.
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