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Our core areas of practice include Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Property Law, Banking and Finance Law, Public Finance and Accounting Law, Commercial Law, Insurance Law, Public International Law, Company Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms amongst others. We aim to achieve our goals through sustained investment in managing knowledge and information, and by creating a working culture that offers consistently high standards of client service.
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We provide a wide range of services for owners, investors, developers, landlords, property fund managers and listed property trusts. Our key areas of expertise include property developments, licensing, commercial and retail leasing, option agreements, acquisition and subdivision of residential, commercial and industrial properties, due diligence, community and private development management amongst others.
Our clients range from home buyers, to property investors, large residential and commercial developers. We also assist a variety of retail shop landlords and shop owners in negotiating the best terms for their leases and many licensed venue owners to buy and sell their properties and negotiate leases with landlords.
We deal with matters of all commercial property from drafting and syndication of agreements to joint ventures. We also offer legal services on corporate issues, insurance, banking and financial arrangements, floatation of shares, mergers, takeovers and foreign investments amongst others.We undertake the preparation and registration of securities (charges, preparation of debentures and guarantees, chattels, mortgages and leases) including security realizations and related debt collections.
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Our team of lawyers provide different stakeholders with legal counsel on the proposed economic or financial policies providing them with a detailed opinion of the pros, cons and the likely effects of implementing each policy on society.We always assist our clients in the formulation of such policies and guide them through their implementation whilst reviewing the policies to incorporate social changes. Presently, our team is actively involved in providing legal counsel to the various stakeholders on the implications of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBi) to the country.
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We serve corporations, financial institutions, parastatals, and governments by offering expert and timely legal advice that is needed in order to achieve our clients' commercial objectives. Our legal team has a tremendous experience in banking and finance practice that enable them to provide
sound advice in relation to the full range of banking and finance transactions. Specific areas of practice within the firm's Banking and Finance department include;
• Advising on financial promotion issues to maximize marketing opportunities;
• Acting for regulators and governments in developing new regulations and/or reviewing existing legal and regulatory frameworks
• Advising on anti-money laundering legislation and related policies and procedures
• Negotiating, drafting, preparing, and concluding legal charges, mortgages, debentures, guarantees and all types of security documents including conducting due diligence
• Advising corporations, banks, financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, and government departments on major projects to finance
• The establishment and restructuring of businesses to comply with the relevant financial services regulations
• Outsourcing in the financial services sector
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Our lawyers are keen to have clients restore healthy trading relationships and create certainty where bargains are struck and as such, we have maintained a team qualified to deal with all forms of ADR mechanisms aimed at achieving a speedy, timely resolution of any commercial disputes our clients may find themselves engaged in. We facilitate resolution of disputes using any form of the ADR mechanisms with the overriding objective being to save on time and costs and resolve any outstanding matters expeditiously, fairly and where possible restoring business thereby leaving little or no room for further acrimony. Our team is always widely engaged in arbitration, mediation, negotiation, inquiry, conciliation, and judicial settlement.