OUR PRACTICE AREAS AT AKOGUN CHAMBERS (TITILOPE EMMANUEL & CO).



Akogun Chambers is from time to time involved in the structuring of cutting edge transactions that often become the market precedent for subsequent transactions, and due to the depth and breadth of our experience, we are able to devise creative and cost-efficient solutions to the issues that arise in complex transactions.

We have been able to recover both current and fully regarded “bad loans” for our clients who engage us, spanning both individual clients and corporate organisations who engage us. In order to meet the needs of our cross-border clientele, the firm is divided into the following practice areas:


CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICE Our firm is ahead in providing services in commerce and industry for years. These include high profile corporate matters as required under Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), Investment and Securities Act (ISA) and other related legislation or statutes.

Our team has in-depth knowledge of corporate and transaction structures, as well as restructuring models. Our integrated team of specialists provide sound and innovative services. We have extensive experience in dealing with matters uniquely associated with Nigeria; we also have an understanding of the complexity of the issues at hand, not only in the context of the law, but also in terms of people, transformation and business.

Through our team structure, we offer a specialist service by using expertise at the right level. This approach also means that costs are kept down. We offer a wide-ranging service in all commercial contracts in a regulatory environment. We are also known for our value-generating role in corporate restructuring and commercial contracts.


CORPORATE ADVISORY SERVICES
Our firm renders corporate advisory services in relation to mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, technology transfer, IT related transactions, franchising, and joint venture and general transactional legal work. We assist clients to structure, negotiate and conclude cut-edge transactions.


DEBT RECOVERY
In the area of Debt Recovery, our firm has been able to establish a niche for itself before individuals, Contractors, Private and Corporate organisations which form our clientele in Nigeria and overseas.

Our Debt Recovery department has grown from a small beginning to a busy and functional department which is headed up by lawyers who are specialists in the act of debt recoveries, who are assisted by an integrated team of lawyers. We are able to pursue debts where it may be difficult or inappropriate for our clients do so and where relationships need to be preserved with good clients by pursuing debts firmly and tactfully. Our debt recovery department's clientele now includes Banks and listed Companies.

We remain committed to the small and large creditors and have not forgotten the impact which a bad debt has upon small and medium-sized businesses. We have a proven track record and have achieved outstanding success in recovering monies and in rehabilitating delinquent accounts for clients at all levels by providing a personalised and cost-effective service through the use of sophisticated legal, efficient and technical experience in achieving our aims.

Our Debt Recoveries Department pursue a cost efficient solution for smaller debts, large high value debts and bulk debts. We involve the correct strategies to focus the debtor's attention on the fact that we mean business and have every intention of recovering the debt. We approach debt recovery differently.

We go through the following steps when assessing the debt recovery situation:

1. We assess the value of the debt and see if it is suitable for the lower or higher courts of the land,
while firstly adopting the alternative dispute resolution techniques before litigation.

2. We assess the attitude of the debtor to debt collection.
3. We assess whether the debtor can, cannot or is willing/not to pay towards determining the
strategies to finally adopt.
4. We assess and evaluate if the debtor is alleging a defence or not, or if there is a counterclaim against our clients and whether the debt is correctly documented with evidential documents.

Our Debt Recovery Department can generally provide fixed, affordable advise on small and big debts, while with larger debts and defended debts we ensure that clients can retain control of each step of the proceedings.

We consult with clients at each stage of proceedings for updates and reassessment, benefits and associated risks of the current position. To help our clients realize the full potential of their businesses, we deliver prompt service and are accessible to them at all times.

We recover loans and debts accruable to our clients, within the shortest possible time and manner available to us, while we engage the services of financial experts to collaborate with us in areas to cumbersome to demystify and leaned minds.

BANKING AND FINANCE
We have really built our firm basically around the debt recovery circle which had vested in us an enviable experience in BANKING AND FINANCE Over the years, our firm has earned a reputation of extensive banking and finance practices in Nigeria. This is through the provision of sound and innovative service, among others, international banking, banking regulatory and compliance, banking merger and acquisition, capital markets, asset-back security lending, mortgages, repurchase note facilities, subordination, commercial loans and overdrafts, syndicated lending, receivable financing, forward sale financing, underwriting facility note and securitisation.


LITIGATION AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
The importance of managing risks has increased, as the volume of domestic and international transactions has expanded. Therefore, new methods of risk management, and dispute resolution continue to grow. It is on this note that our firm is well equipped to see our Clients through litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution.

Thorough knowledge of advocacy has over the years boosted our ability to provide pragmatic and result-oriented services to our clients. We have a very high degree of specialisation in the various units that make up the alternative dispute resolution/litigation department- this ensures that clients get the best expertise.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Our firm has experience in both the public and private sectors in all aspects of communications law, including the commercial and regulatory aspects of telecommunications, broadcasting, media law, convergence, signal distribution, and space and satellite law.