Counsel for matters without precedent.
Sui generis: of its own kind. Every file that reaches this office is the first of its kind to somebody. We build the argument for that person, not for the file next to it.
We act for founders raising their first institutional round, for families holding assets across three generations, and for people who woke up this morning inside a legal problem they did not choose.
Two offices, five practices, one standard of attention.
About the firm →Five doors
Startup
Formation, cap tables, SAFEs and priced rounds, ESOPs — and the terms founders sign at 2am and regret at Series A.
Writing on this →Corporate
Company secretarial, M&A, joint ventures, CAC and regulatory filings, board governance and shareholder disputes.
Writing on this →Oil & Gas
Upstream and midstream contracting, licensing rounds, local content compliance, and arbitration when the JOA fails.
Writing on this →Criminal Litigation
Bail applications, trial defence, appeals — and quiet resolutions reached before a charge is ever filed.
Writing on this →The people you actually get
Twelve years across venture financings and cross-border M&A. Sits on the other side of the table often enough to know where it bends.
Writing →Fifteen years in upstream contracting and licensing. Reads a JOA the way other people read a menu.
Writing →Former prosecutor. Now spends her days undoing the case files she once built.
Writing →Title work, perfection, and the long unglamorous march through the land registry.
Writing →“We had four SAFEs from three jurisdictions and a term sheet in a week. Adaeze reconciled the whole thing in two days and told us exactly what it would cost us.”
Series A fintech, Lagos
“They were the only firm that told us the case was weak before taking our money. We hired them for the next one.”
Midstream operator
“Halima called me back on a Sunday. That is the whole review, really.”
Economic crime matter
Where we sit
14B Idejo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos
3 Herbert Macaulay Street, GRA Phase II, Port Harcourt