Afrizon Advocates and Solicitors Chambers is a law firm incorporated with Corporate Affairs Commission with objectives of rendering qualitative legal services and real estate management in Nigeria.
Our core value is built on integrity and resolute to always proffer solutions where there is injustice and abuse of human rights. Our law firm is very much into Commercial and corporate law practices in Nigeria.
Afrizon Advocates & Solicitors is an integration of various legal experts and our Lawyers have flairs in offering the best legal services in Nigeria to our numerous clients. With offices in Lagos and Ado-Ekiti, we are a Nigeria-based law firm striving to provide the highest quality of innovative legal and business advisory as well as other related legal services to the wide business community in Lagos and in other parts of the Country.
Our Law firm core value is built on Integrity, Honesty and Transparency. We offer seamless services to corporate institutions in Nigeria.
Expertise
We cover a broad spectrum of legal practice areas: Litigation and Non-Litigation in Corporate and Commercial area, Debts Recovery, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution practices.
Our Corporate and Commercial practice area offers legal advisory support and transactional services to clients, some of which are in the Banking and Finance sector. Remarkably, our law firm has represented numerous domestic financial institutions in many capacities ranging from Court Actions, Debts Recovery, and Corporate Search and Due Diligence. Our Firm has provided advice to clients in all phases of their operations from financing decisions to corporate restructuring as well as guidance on legal aspects of the day to day running of clients’ operations including labour matter and industrial relations.
Our clients have also benefited from our Alternative Dispute Resolution skill and expertise which has better saved some of our clients, of the time, money and good relationship they might have lost if litigation were considered in those instances. Our dispute resolution practice draws on its intimate knowledge of our clients’ businesses and our ability to respond swiftly and creatively to their immediate problems. We also encourage Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Arbitration to meet the interests of commerce, because it is fast, effective, final and binding resolutions. Once the parties reach an agreement, even the Court cannot deviate from it. At Afrizon Advocates & Solicitors, our experienced and highly qualified arbitration experts have the drives in getting results for our clients . In addition, we are proud of our unique experience as Law firm in Nigeria and our motto is Justice, Equity and Fairness.
Our team members work closely together to ensure that we provide sound and insightful legal services to all our esteemed clients in Nigeria. More so, our client’s instructions are cogently reviewed in line with the International Best Legal Practices.
In the light of the foregoing, we would like to welcome the opportunity to provide best legal services to our potential Clients in their operations. Some of the services we are willing to provide include:
- General legal advisory services on legal issues relating to our Clients operations and services;
- Legal advice on all matters relating to labour issues;
- Debts Recovery services;
- Notarization of Documents
- Criminal Litigation
- Tenancy and Recovery of Premises
- Entertainment Law
- Environmental Law
- Estate Planning and Probate Law
- Family Law
- Labour and Employment Matters
- Legal opinions on government policies, regulations, orders and directives;
- Alternative Dispute Resolutions;
- Transactional legal support by way of drafting and reviewing contracts/agreements and other legal documents as well as carrying out due diligence exercises;
- Regulatory compliance for financial institutions and other statutory requirements relating to the services offered by our Clients and all aspects of their corporate operations;
- Corporate and Registry Search at the Corporate Affairs Commission and Ministry of Land
- Legal representation in disputes on behalf of or in actions brought against our Clients while carrying out its objectives as a financial institution.
In addition to the above, at Afrizon Advocates & Solicitors, we take great pride in being proactive and result-oriented law firm. We engage in active clients’ communication 24/7 to create and add more value to our Clients and are very committed to a continuous client good relationship in an organic environment to make them thrive in business community.
Election Petitions.
ELECTION PETITIONS
An Election petition is a procedure for inquiring into the validity of the election results of Presidential, Governorship and National Assembly elections in Nigeria, in line with the Provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Act. In other words, it is a means under law to challenge the election of a candidate where there are allegations of mass rigging, over voting, election irregularities and election malpractices, a Petitioner can file an action in the Tribunal against Respondent(s) urging the Tribunal to declare him the winner or for the cancellation of the election results for fresh election to be conducted. An election petition calling in question an election shall be filed within the time period of thirty days from the date of declaration of results.
We have handled a Pre-Election matter from the Federal High Court to the Supreme Court.
SOME OF THE ELECTION PETITIONS IN WHICH OUR LAW FIRM WAS INVOLVED IN:
SDP & 1 OR VS. DR. ABAYOMI ABIODUN OYEBANJI & 4 ORS
ENGINEER OJO O. KAYODE VS. ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS & 19 ORS & 19 Ors. APPEAL NO: CA/EK/65/2022
- ADEBAYO SEGUN ONI VS JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI & 2 ORS. SUIT NO: SC 205/2019, SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA.
- ADEBAYO SEGUN ONI VS JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI & 2 ORS. SUIT NO: SC 206/2019, SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA.
- JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI VS ENGR. SEGUN ONI & 2 ORS. SUIT NO: CA/EK/95/2018, COURT OF APPEAL.
- ADEBAYO SEGUN ONI VS JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI & 2 ORS SUIT NO: CA/EK/94/2018, COURT OF APPEAL.
- ADEBAYO SEGUN ONI VS JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI & 2 ORS. SUIT NO: FHC/ABJ/CS/663/2018, FEDERAL HIGH COURT.
- SEN. OLUJIMI BIODUN CHRISTINE & PDP VS. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & 2 ORS. PETITION NO: NA/LEGH/EK/EPT/4/19.
- SEN. DURO FASEYI & PDP VS. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & 2 ORS. PETITION NO: NA/LEGH/EK/EPT/3/19.
- OMOTOSHO NICHOLAS OLUSHOLA & PDP VS. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & 2 ORS. PETITION NO: NA/LEGH/EK/EPT/1/19.
- HON. KEHINDE AGBOOLA EMMANUEL & PDP VS. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & 2 ORS. PETITION NO: NA/LEGH/EK/EPT/2/19.
Litigation.
LITIGATION
Our Law firm has diligent and competent Legal Practitioners that are well grounded in Civil and Criminal litigations. We have handled many cases on behalf of our numerous Clients up to the Appellant Courts in many areas of Nigerian Laws.
We have expertise in many areas of Law ranging from Land dispute matters, Medical Negligence, Dissolution of Marriage, Action for Trespass, Bankruptcy and Winding-Up Action, Personal Injury Claims, Unlawful Termination of Contract, Recovery of Premises, Recovery of Debts, Enforcement of Fundamental Rights, Stay of Execution, Enforcement of Judgement, Compliance and Regulatory, Breach of Contract, Arbitration/ADR related Matters and even to Criminal Trials.
Arbitration/ADR.
ARBITRATION/ADR
Arbitration is one of the forms of Alternatives Dispute Resolution mechanism, which is highly regarded as the cost effective, time efficient and less cumbersome compare to the traditional litigation which is time consuming and highly expensive in nature. In the 21st Century, many Organizations such as Multi-national Companies, NGOs and other Corporate Bodies are now exploring Alternative Dispute Resolution to settle their matters amicably without embarking on lengthy litigation. We have helped some of our Clients to explore Arbitration/ADR which have yielded good results in recovery of huge amounts of money, we have also used the mechanism to obtain specific performance in the area of contract, construction and other areas where the terms of contract specifically provided for such, without going to Court for adjudication.
Corporate and Commercial.
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
In this modern world, Lawyers play important role in ensuring legal compliance, drafting of valid legal agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, Article of Association, Terms of Contract, Insurance Policy, Debt Recovery, Execution of Mareva Injunction,Anton Piller, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Construction Law, Energy Law, Banks and Customers related Matters, Aviation and many other 21st Century, Commercial activities that are being regulated by Laws. We have assisted many Corporate Organizations to ensure compliance and to maximize profits for our Clients by drafting valid legal agreements and offering sound legal advise to our Corporate Clients before entering into key transactions with other firms.
Real Estate/Property Law.
REAL ESTATE/PROPERTY LAW
We helps our Clients to conduct Search at the Ministry of Land, we also offer professional advise to our Clients for them to acquire landed properties anywhere in Nigeria. We have assisted our numerous Clients to perfect their title documents with Government Agencies to valid their rights of ownership and good titles to the properties procured.
Our Counsel delights in helping Clients to recover the possession of their premises from the Tenants at Will, by filing Court actions against the Tenants who have breached any Tenancy Agreement or defaulted in making Annual Rent payment.
Family Law.
FAMILY LAW
We have filed several actions on behalf of our Clients in the High Court of many States in Nigeria as Counsel to the Petitioners or Respondents in dissolution of marriage cases which is regulated by the Matrimonial Causes Rules and the Marriage Act in Nigeria, parties have liberties to file Dissolution of Marriage in any High Courts in Nigeria, even outside the State where the couples got married and resides. Family related matters are numerous in numbers, however, our Counsel can helps to file for the Custody and Maintenance of a Child or children of the marriage. Other areas we can render assistance are in the areas of succession, Will, Letters of Administration and many others.
Labour Law/Employment Related Matters.
LABOUR LAW/EMPLOYMENT RELATED MATTERS
We have seasoned Lawyers who are well versed in the area of Employer(s)/Employees related matters, Industrial Actions, Compensation for Industrial Injuries, Wrongful termination, Industrial Disputes, Unlawful Termination of Contract.
Our firm has handled matters at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, to get adequate compensation and settlements for our Clients. The Laws enshrined the basic rights of the Employers and Employees in Nigeria, which should not be violated by any of the parties and where there is in fracture, the victim has a legal right to seek for a redress through a Court Action at the National Industrial Court.