Our Practice Area
At Lawal Pedro & Associates, we pride ourselves on delivering practical, client-focused solutions across a wide spectrum of legal services. Our expertise spans complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, where we safeguard our clients’ interests with precision and strategy. We provide tailored banking, finance, and corporate/commercial advisory services, guiding individuals and businesses through today’s evolving financial and regulatory landscape.
We are equally trusted in matters of debt recovery, electoral processes, and labour and employment law, offering clear counsel that balances compliance with real-world outcomes. Our team brings deep sector knowledge in energy and natural resources, real estate, shipping and maritime, aviation, and entertainment — industries where timely, informed advice is critical.
With dedicated specialists in tax advisory and beyond, Lawal Pedro & Associates stands as a full-service firm committed to helping clients resolve challenges, seize opportunities, and thrive with confidence.
Litigation
Our litigation practice which is led by a highly skilled team of professionals provides a broad range of legal advice and representation to international and local clients across all our practice areas.
We possess solid years of representation before all courts in the Nigerian Judicial System with a commendable success rate in settling extremely complex disputes. Our right of the audience also extends to Statutory Boards and all other tribunals.
The firm offers a full complement of services which include drafting and review of local and cross border transaction agreements, due diligence reviews, judicial review of administrative action, construction disputes, employment disputes, enforcement of human rights, debt recovery, landlord and tenant disputes, claims for negligence, and general contractual claims.
We actively communicate to keep clients updated during the litigation process. Our clients are rest-assured that disputes handled by our top-notch litigation department with a wealth of experience are promptly and effectively adjudicated upon with minimum expenditure of time and resources.
Here, at Lawal Pedro and Associates, we strongly believe that the finest attributes of a legal practitioner are best shown, honed and articulated by the oral and written advocacy of litigation practice.
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
The firm comprises seasoned arbitrators with outstanding years of experience in local and international arbitral proceedings. The bounty of experience of this vibrant team is vested in its members, many of whom are not only qualified solicitors but also arbitrators, mediators and conciliators.
Our team undertakes arbitration as well as other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures. The firm’s primary objective is to provide world-class representation by adopting creative approaches to nip client’s disputes in the bud without recourse to Litigation. We provide cost-effective advocacy when proffering legal advice to clients on the most effective methods to settle disputes amicably using either mediation, conciliation and negotiation at different stages as may be applicable.
Our lawyers are dispute resolution experts who take pride in unfolding intricate issues and getting the best deals for clients. Such disputes are delicately handled by a team of specialists who are consistently devoted to resolving them in a timely manner while working in tandem with the client’s requests.
BANKING AND FINANCE
Lawal Pedro & Associates’ banking and finance practice is well distinguished for its strengths in project finance, secured and unsecured facilities, and acquisition finance. Our team remains at the forefront of banking regulatory frameworks to help clients seize opportunities in a dynamic and evolving sector.
Our clientele spans across home-grown and international financial institutions. We represent investors, banks, insurance companies, arrangers, facility agents, borrowers and sponsors, investment firms, leasing companies and private equity firms.
Our team possesses extensive experience in proffering solutions to intricate transactions; some of which include incorporation, establishment, setting up representative offices, regulatory capital, foreign exchange and other general regulatory compliance issues, including Central Bank of Nigeria regulations and the operations of financial institutions in the sector.
The team offers legal advisory on debt capital markets, project finance transactions, real estate financing, hotel financing, all lending transactions. Additionally, we have structured transactions relating to all forms of acquisition finance including debt restructuring.
CORPORATE / COMMERCIAL ADVISORY
Lawal Pedro and Associates (LPA’s) corporate and commercial team is poised to provide practical, savvy and ingenious services on legal issues which impact the output of corporate businesses. With decades of exposure and advanced expertise, we ensure our clients are in compliance with corporate governance codes and legal responsibilities required for the smooth running of the business without impediments.
We offer legal advice on all aspects of corporate and commercial services including the formation, incorporation and registration of companies, business names and partnerships, dissolution of companies, corporate governance, joint ventures, banking and finance, mergers and acquisition, corporate restructuring, risk management, foreign investment, company secretarial services, operating structures, and policies and procedure. Our expertise extends to partnerships, companies limited by guarantee and incorporated joint ventures.
At LPA, stay abreast of matters in the corporate field and thus, guarantee that our corporate client’s transactions conform to the highest standards of regulatory compliance while actively helping the client avoid possible risks and violations.
Clients take pride in our ability to fully protect the general interests of their corporation and remain rest assured that we are adequately equipped to deliver top-notch legal services.
DEBT RECOVERY
Lawal Pedro and Associates (LPA) is undisputedly a market-leading law firm in Debt Recovery and we provide extensive services in Insolvency Practice, Corporate Recovery, structuring of financial transactions, enforcement of security interest and Corporate Restructuring. Our recovery process begins with a mapped out strategy which is pursued by a team of professionals until the matter is determined.
The firm’s expertise ranges from helping banks recover non-performing loans to negotiating with creditors for settlement. Our highly skilled team of financially-savvy lawyers are dedicated to offering clients exceptional legal counsel and representation to recover overdue debts.
Our Clientele includes Independent legal practitioners, Accountants, Consulting firms, Financial institutions and other professionals seeking to recover money owed by their clients for services rendered. We equally represent businesses that provide a variety of services including but not limited to; real estate agents, independent contractors etc.
ELECTORAL PROCESS
Lawal Pedro and Associates (LPA) is highly regarded as one of the top electoral petition law firms in the country. We have a solid grasp of Electoral Dispute Resolution in the Nigerian judicial system and we confidently assert that the firm has emerged successful in a number of electoral petition cases.
Our legal team have the requisite knowledge and breadth of experience on all aspects of electoral disputes emanating from both pre and post-election matters. Our team has successfully prosecuted and defended various election matters across Tribunals, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
We are popularly known to represent politically exposed individuals at the Petition Tribunal and have gotten favourable judgements over the past two decades.
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Lawal Pedro and Associates (LPA) possesses a team of highly qualified professionals who offer a wide spectrum of all advisory services to Nigerian and multinational clients in all aspects of labour and employment law. Clients rely on our experienced team and edge cutting expertise in employment matters to provide pragmatic and cost-effective solutions.
We provide innovative and extensive legal advice in all matters of employment including ensuring client’s compliance with labour laws and regulations; preparation, review and/ or interpretation of employment contracts; generating employment and end-of-employment documentation; employee representation and industrial relations; workforce termination and discrimination within the workforce.
Some other relevant matters include pensions, workplace health and safety, collective bargaining, maternity leave rights, employment benefit plans, advising on employee issues in the context of bankruptcies; collective bargaining negotiations, company liquidations, mergers, acquisitions; labour litigation and arbitration.
The firm works closely with its clients to minimize risks and avoid liability. Our team also advises on the establishment and operation of pension and other retirement schemes.
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Our Energy and Natural Resources Team have developed considerable knowledge in advising clients on the regulatory framework for Oil and Gas in Nigeria. Specifically, we have acted as legal advisers in negotiations leading to the formation of Oil companies.
Our expertise spans across all aspects of oil and gas resource matters which include the preparation and review of Production Sharing Contracts, Joint Venture Agreements, Joint Operating Agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, production assets acquisition and concession licensing. The firm represents major players in the Nigerian energy sector and liaises with multinational investors to help structure investment transactions and formalize arrangements with the local partners.
The team also provides advice and dispute resolution representation to multinational and indigenous exploration and production companies as well as oil service companies. We also assist clients in the procurement of approvals, licenses, permits and consents in line with the applicable statutory/regulatory requirements.
The team routinely advises clients on the legal issues encountered in raising financing for the oil and gas and energy projects.
Here at LPA, we have a deliberate policy of developing competence and garnering profound knowledge of the policy directives of the Government. We have rendered advise on the tax regime applicable to energy and oil and gas transactions in Nigeria.
REAL ESTATE
Lawal Pedro and Associates (LPA) is a trusted real estate law firm in Lagos. The firm renders legal advisory services on various types of property transactions for a wide range of individuals and corporations. We represent and advise various players in the real estate space comprising governmental agencies, financial institutions, dealers, investors, vendors, purchasers of property.
Our Real Estate practice covers a wide variety of transactions including acquisition, investment, development, redevelopment and refinancing. The firm has also handled various real estate projects with commercial structures and residential estates.
LPA has extensive experience in carrying out investigations to determine whether the property is subject to the government’s acquisition or other encumbrances in order to secure the best deals for our clients. We are also involved in perusing and preparing a vast number of conveyancing documents (where applicable). Our services extend to obtaining government consents, registration of land instruments and obtaining land dispute settlements. The firm also institutes compensation claims where necessary.
Clients rely on us to execute complex and ingenious transactions because we have a concrete understanding of the issues that arise at different stages of real estate transactions.
SHIPPING AND MARITIME
Nigeria is gaining global recognition as a reputable maritime nation with over 8,000 kilometres of coastal channels and navigable inland. LPA is dedicated to advancing the business objectives of clients in the maritime sector with a high degree of professionalism. Our team welcomes diverse clientele locally and internationally including carriers, vessel owners, charterers, marine insurers, stevedores, shipyards and salvage companies.
We offer legal representation in all transactions pertaining to the maritime sector, some of which include marine casualty, mortgages, maritime lien, marine cargo claims, arrest and security, ship brokering, ship financing and chattering agreements.
We also undergo legal due diligence and ensure that our clients conform to regulatory compliance laid down by the applicable shipping law and regulation. Our spectrum of services extends to the advisory on legal matters pertaining to shipping personnel, representation in corporate acquisitions, sale and purchase of marine vessels, registration of shipping vessels and documentation of sale and purchase agreements.
TAX ADVISORY
The development of a nation depends largely on revenue generated by the government. Taxation is the key to unlocking economic growth. Challenges accrue for present-day business owners in determining tax revenue vis-à-vis the multiplicity of tax regimes applicable in Nigeria. The recurrence with considerable knowledge of the legal intricacies associated with taxation, our legal team works closely with our clients with a view to understanding their business needs and to offer pragmatic solutions to complex tax matters arising from tax advice, tax risk analysis, tax arbitration and tax compliance reviews.
Legal tax advisory is open to individuals, both local and international companies, expatriate workers, educational organizations and multinationals as regards Companies Income Tax, Personal Income Tax, Value Added Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Custom and Excise Duties etc.
Our technical expertise and niche enable us to fully utilize all incentives provided under the relevant tax laws for the benefit of our clients, deliver cost-effective services in navigating compliance requirements and offer representation in tax dispute resolution.
AVIATION
The firm’s Aviation team provides innovative, solution-driven advice and legal representation on commercial and regulatory transactions accruing from the operation of airlines. Our team is well equipped with pervasive experience in resolving disputes with regulatory agencies and government ministries.
The firm leverages on multiple geographical locations to deliver effective and efficient services to local and international airlines as well as engineers on the acquisition, financing and leasing of aircraft.
We offer advisory and assist clients on the procurement of licenses, certificates, permits and other approvals required for the smooth operation of airlines.
ENTERTAINMENT
Prior to modern-day, Nigeria’s media and entertainment industry struggled to attract investors and relied on personal funding to sustain productions. Presently, there is significant growth for Nigeria as her entertainment industry has gained global recognition in diverse fields ranging from movies, music, creative arts and stage events with an estimation currently worth $4billion.
Following the emergence of an era of young and brilliant creatives, our firm developed a team of specialized lawyers well-versed and devoted to tackle problems faced in the Entertainment industry and provide groundbreaking solutions. We strive to help clients realize and protect their exclusivity rights conferred on valuable assets by the relevant and applicable Intellectual Property Legislation. Our team carries out registration of copyrights and other intellectual property rights and also advises on the benefits accruing to such registration.
At Lawal Pedro and Associates, we welcome all clients locally and worldwide involved in literary works, artistic works, architectural design, broadcasting on radio and television programs, film making, production of music works, and performing and recording artistes. Additionally, our team offers talent and brand management in Nigeria and the protection of such branding rights.
Our services include a review of contract agreements; drafting of intellectual property-related agreements; conducting intellectual property asset audits; registration and enforcement of trademarks; registration and renewal of patents and industrial design; preparation and registration of technology transfer agreements at the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) and the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON).
We offer legal advice tailored to match the peculiarity of our client’s needs and surpass expectations.
