Business Law and Corporate Law

Wealthy African families are shifting their approach to family offices, prioritizing governance frameworks and ownership structures over investment strategy as they transition from founder-led wealth to multigenerational stewardship. This distinctly African model addresses the structural gaps that emerge when significant portfolios grow across operating businesses, real estate, and global investments without coordinated ownership frameworks or formal governance systems.

Under the Act, settlors who are typically petroleum operators, are required to establish and fund these trusts for the benefit of host communities.

Love is many things and often spoken about in emotional terms like affection, sacrifice, partnership and shared history. But families who endure understand something else: Love is also structure.

In our last Newsletter, we highlighted how licensing external tech can help you grow without losing focus on your core business objective. Now, let's flip the script, what if your IP could do the heavy lifting?

Technology transfer plays various roles in a country, the most notable being economic and technological development.

Franchising is an increasingly popular business model in Nigeria, offering entrepreneurs a way to expand their brand rapidly without the heavy capital outlay typically required for growth. The model allows for quicker...

Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced new capital adequacy rules for fund managers and private capital participants, establishing tiered minimum capital requirements based on assets under management. The guidelines clarify what constitutes qualifying capital, outline compliance pathways including cash injection and securities transfer, and set a June 2027 deadline for full implementation.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued an Exposure Draft of Revised Guidelines for Financial Holding Companies, marking the first comprehensive review since 2014. This regulatory update introduces significant changes to governance requirements, capital adequacy standards, ownership structures, and consolidated supervision frameworks.

Nigeria's Insurance Regulatory Sandbox, operational since 2023, offers a controlled testing environment for innovative insurance structures. Could this framework provide the pathway for establishing a domestic Protection & Indemnity mutual club, addressing a critical gap in Nigeria's maritime insurance sector while navigating the complex regulatory requirements of NAICOM, NIMASA, and local content legislation?

As a business owner in Nigeria, the process of growing a company often means focusing on winning customers, expanding rapidly, and outpacing competitors, while still unknowingly breaching the law.

Nigeria has emerged as a leading destination for private equity and venture capital in Africa, with $3 billion invested across 404 transactions between 2020 and 2024. The newly enacted Investments and Securities Act 2025 introduces comprehensive regulatory oversight for PE and VC funds, bringing enhanced investor protection, stricter compliance requirements, and clearer operational frameworks to this rapidly evolving market.

In a unanimous decision handed down on June 10, 2026, the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court that Section 18(2) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, as amended (“CAMA 2020”)...