INTRODUCTION

Since its founding in Lagos in 1990, the legal firm of Oluwole Akanle & Company has continued to grow.

The breadth of our substantive expertise has enabled us to come up with creative solutions to client problems that cut across legal specialisation. The firm draws extensively from the research resources of its affiliate organisation the - Centre for Law and Development Studies. It also benefits extensively from the prior legal experience of the Principal (Prof. Oluwole Akanle) in academics, government and the private sector. These invaluable assets have put the firm in a position of strength to devise legislative, administrative and judicial strategies for meeting our clients’ objectives.

The guiding principles of the firm are the strict application of skills and professionalism to knowledge for the attainment of excellence. In demonstration of our commitment to these principles, we are perfectly able and of course, willing to come up with effective responses on short notice to emergency needs of our clients or situations. In reacting timeously to particular situations, we take special care to adopt the most cost effective approach to our clients’ objectives.

The firm has extensive practice with a broad range of clients in banking, arbitration, property, commercial/corporate, tax, securities law and matters, as well as regulatory and other statutory bodies. The balance of this brochure contains highlight of the firm’s range of services.

In serving its clients the firm through its managing partner relies and benefits from its connections with international legal firms and multilateral institutions.