Our legal minds protect what your creative mind conceives.

Shaping Nigeria’s Intellectual Property Regime

The concept of intellectual property has taken hold in Nigeria. Companies across all sectors and individual creators alike are eager to have their works protected and respected. 

With offices in the business centres of Lagos and Abuja, our firm has our fingers on the pulse of the IP awakening. We frequently take up issues of first impression, serving the dual purpose of securing our clients’ IP rights while further developing the country’s IP law.

Moreover, the IP movement is being led oftentimes by younger, digitally connected people. We have carefully built our IP team to include younger but very accomplished lawyers who are part of the vanguard of IP growth in Nigeria. We understand the value inherent in your creation, and we put all of our efforts into defending and protecting it.

How We Can Help

Our work primarily involves defending the IP rights of creators, from individuals to multinational corporations and everything in between. In terms of approach, we believe in strongly asserting our clients’ rights and will not hesitate to pursue all available remedies against any party who appropriates, steals or unfairly uses our clients’ works.

Intellectual property legal services offered include but are not limited to:

• Copyright registration and protection
• Trademark registration and protection
• Trade secrets
• Digital media and content protection
• Brand identity protection
• Licensing of intellectual property
• IP transactions
• IP litigation
• Litigation avoidance
• Auditing compliance
• Non-disclosure, non-compete and non-circumvention agreements

Due to the breadth and depth of the intellectual property matters we handle, clients of all sizes benefit from the market intelligence we have gained over the years. 

Whether you have a complex portfolio of corporate IP to safeguard or you are an individual creator who just finished your first work, you can rely on us to do everything we can to effectively manage and protect your IP.