Aviation, Admiralty & Maritime Law
We advise ship owners, charterers, insurers and financiers. We institute and defend actions relating to collisions, salvage operations, personal injury, injury to ships and shipping operations generally.
We also investigate all aspects of maritime casualty including salvage and wreck removal.
Practice Areas
- Corporate and Commercial Litigation
- Appellate Litigation
- Oil and Gas
- Shipping
- Intellectual Property
- Debt Recovery
- Airline formation
- Air transport and route licensing
- Counseling in objections and representations to any license applications
- Handling all Hull, Passenger and Cargo Claims
The Firm strives to meet the needs of its clients, and provides these services in a bid to keep their business and interests on the path of sustained growth, development and success.
The Firm provides services to its corporate clients which includes company secretarial services, corporate governance issues and immigration advise as the need arises.
WTC drafts and enforces all lease agreements and encumbrances on real property. We advise on optimizing commercial property development and management.
The Firm is arguably the one of the largest Intellectual Property Law Practice in Nigeria.
- Mergers, Acquisitions, Take-over, Divestitures and Capital Restructurings
- Advising on raising of Equity Capital and Debt Financing
- Criminal Defence and White Collar Crime Prevention
- Constitutional Matters and Administrative/Judicial Reviews
- Acting as Arbitrators or Counsel in Domestic and International arbitrations in major areas of Commence, Finance and Industry.
- Business formation, Secretarial Services, Regulatory Compliance and General matters
- Anti-Competition and Business Model Protection.
- Petroleum Profit Taxation
- Property Taxation
- Tax Planning for Corporations and Individuals
- Advice on and facilitation of licences, franchises etc.
- Artistes’ rights management, sport teams legal affairs
- Social media and contents protection
The Firm is highly noted and well respected among its competitors for its work in the field of energy law, comprising oil and gas, electricity and other similar public utilities.