Safeguard your creative assets and maximize their value with expert intellectual property solutions tailored to protect your business and drive growth

Our deep knowledge of Media and Entertainment business as well as the practices and conventions of the local Industry, enables us to provide practical advice to clients is in line with global best practices and local law. Our skilled expertise is offered within a full service firm structure which allows us to advise clients in all aspects of their business from setting up their entities and going into operation

Our IT expert and tech-savvy attorneys are among our fastest-growing and most active groups in response to the rapid technology-induced changes in Nigeria. The method of operation is set out below:

1. Setting up companies engaged in these activities
2. Procuring operating licences from relevant regulatory bodies
3. Reviewing and preparing agreements around the creation, protection and transfer of content/digital rights/property and intellectual property
4. Providing legal advice in respect of statutory, regulatory and case law implications on operational activities of clients in this area
5. General interface with the various regulatory bodies such as the Trademark, Patent and Design Registry, Nigerian Communication Commission, National Broadcasting Commission, National Information Technology Development Agency, National Identity Management Commission, Central Bank of Nigeria as well as the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion in relation to legal and compliance issues regarding content creation, content operation, content protection and transfer as well as intellectual property.

The Intellectual Property practice delivers timely and practical commercial legal solutions to our clients with respect to their Intellectual Property (IP) needs. We provide legal advice on IP rights in relation to usage, creative works, brand names, licensing and exploitation as well as acquisition and technology transfer. Our expert on IP law litigate the aforementioned legal issues in tribunals and courts in Nigeria.