Practice Areas
What We Are Expert At
Legal Practice Areas
Adedeji Adebiyi
Managing Partner
Banking, Insurance & Pensions
We have a broad experience and tradition in representing our clients in diverse financial transactions such as secured financing, corporate lending, due diligence, securitization, asset based lending, and real estate finance. Our clients include lenders, borrowers, guarantors,pledgors, grantors and grantees in finance and lending transactions. They range from private companies, public companies, individuals, government institutions, non‐governmental institutions to self‐help groups.
We represent clientsin the insurance sector including both insurance companies and insured. We believe that the success of the insurance sector hinges on honesty. We are therefore involved in detecting and litigating against fraudulent claims and in cases of genuine claims, we litigate to ensure that both parties get their just deserts.
In the area of debt recovery, we represent clients in complex collections and debt recovery, restructuring of debts and subsequent bankruptcy proceedings.
In the Pension Sector, we educate our clients on their rights and obligations as contributors and retirees under the contributory pension scheme. We ensure their required documents are well prepared at the entry and at the exit points. We also provide sound dispute resolution mechanisms whenever conflicts arise between customers, pension operators and the regulators.
Taxation Laws
Governments worldwide are aggressively pursuing additional revenue, and crisis-related restructurings pose new and difficult challenges for tax planning and dispute resolution. So does the Nigerian Government. At CP, we understand the business and legal intricacies of taxation especially when it involves foreign investments and have thus forged an ability to design, implement and defend tax planning structures.
We are vastly skilled in advising in direct and indirect taxation, transfer pricing, and dispute resolution. Our dedicated lawyers, consulting experts and advisers are in touch with changing tax laws, practices and dispute-resolution techniques and can help design, implement, and defend tax strategies for international operations and transactions.
Our Lawyers have served as trusted tax counsel to many companies and we have experienced tax litigators who can represent clients in all phases of tax dispute resolution. We also advise on Tax exemptions; Tax Returns and Assessments; VAT; Income Tax and other forms of levities
Adedeji Adebiyi
Managing Partner
Oluwagbemiga Olaoba
Partner
Real Estate & Construction
We have broad experience and tradition in representing our clients in diverse financial transactions such as secured financing, corporate lending, due diligence, securitization, asset-based lending, and real estate finance.
Our clients include lenders, borrowers, guarantors, pledgors, grantors and grantees in finance and lending transactions. They range from private companies, public companies, individuals government institutions, and non‐governmental institutions to self‐help groups.
We have ably and strenuously represented our clients in relation to various conveyancing transactions and real estate development projects. We walk hand in hand with our clients to meet their goals of acquiring homes, property and completing their development projects. In the process, we help them navigate legal and regulatory requirements, ensuring they have no worries even as they meet their targets.
Litigation
We possess a strong team of Attorneys with both excellent litigation skills as well as expertise in the field. Our team guarantees proper advisory and representation in litigation and arbitration, both in civil and commercial aspects. We represent our clients in all courts and tribunals including the Magistrates Courts, High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court.
Our services in this field include; Legal advice in relation to cases, appellate advice, stays, and appellate litigation, Interlocutory applications, reliefs, remedies and defence to interlocutory applications, Judgments, decrees, execution, stays, Court attendance, Criminal defence, litigation and legal advice to clients charged with crimes, Civil and commercial litigation in commercial disputes, Contentious Probate litigation, Judicial review and administrative law.
Oluwagbemiga Owoeye
Associate
Adedeji Moroof Owode
Senior Associate
Intellectual Property
We advise clients in relation to all areas of intellectual property including registration and protection through litigation. We understand that intellectual property, like other forms of property, is invaluable to our clients and we assuage their fears of loss by fiercely protecting them legally. These include trade and service marks, patents, industrial designs and copyright.
Specifically on trademarks, Breakthrough Attorneys recognizes that brands and trademarks are at the heart of every business. There is, therefore, a need for such businesses to put in place effective and pro‐active trademark clearance and registration strategies to ensure that such brands are properly protected.
To achieve this, We provide the following services: offering trademark advice, registration, maintenance and renewal of trademarks in Nigeria, auditing trademark portfolio, preparation, filing and prosecution of new trademark applications and responses, trademark docketing, trade ‐ mark conflict resolution, trademark clearance searches and opinion, trademark audits and counselling, carrying out due diligence of Intellectual Property and so on.
Employment & Labour Laws
Employers and employees, in all sectors of the economy, are the lifeblood of a country’s income revenue. We believe that representing clients on both divides of the employer/employee relationship is fundamental to our economy.
We, therefore, provide the following services: advice, litigation, drawing and reviewing of Employment contracts advice and litigation related to Employee Benefits, advice and legal representation in discrimination cases; sexual harassment, HIV/AIDS in the workplace and other related cases, advice and litigation related to maternity, paternity medical and annual leave, legal advice and representation in relation to Wrongful termination, notices, compensation in lieu of notice , advising and representing employers, employees and unions in relation to collective bargaining, advising and litigating Wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, settlement and alternative dispute resolution.
Oluwagbemiga Olaoba
Partner
Adedeji Adebiyi
Senior Associate
Corporate Secretarial Services
Our Company Secretarial Unit comprises of experienced and specialized lawyers. The Division provided expert advice, practical assistance and value added servicesto local and multinational companies, their Boards of Directors and Managements. The Division advises on Company Law, Corporate Practice and other compliance issues.
We also offer bespoke services to our corporate clients involved in different transactions with unique needs. We represent various business entities including companies, sole proprietorships, partnerships, incorporated Trustees etc.
Immigration Laws
CP has all the requisite knowhow and resources that support our clients’ immigration needs. Most of our clients share the common need as regards the status of their employees, experts and their respective families. Akin to the employment law practice, in ensuring its clients’ immigration status, we are the one stop centre for all investment needs of our clients.
We therefore provide immigration services to clients such as; work and resident permits for clients, employees and respective families, visa rejections, investment incentives for foreigners and other residential status needs of the clients.
Adedeji Moroof Owode
Senior Associate
Adedeji Moroof Owode
Senior Associate
Shipping And International Trade Law
Our Shipping Law practice embodies both domestic laws governing maritime activities and private international law governing the relationships between private entities and individuals that operate vessels on the oceans, also entails the rights, duties and relations between those individuals using such vessels for the Transportations of their goods as well as government agencies involved.
Nigeria boasts an ever‐growing international trade relationship with many developed countries. CP, in this aspect of international trade deals with matters including marine commerce, shipping, the law of the sea generally, the transportation of passengers and goods by sea, and Customs permits and rules as to tariffs and related matters.
Active Research Consultancy In Developmental Activities.
Our firm pride in working actively with International and Local Non-Governmental Organizations towards conducting qualitative and quantitative research development on a wide number of issues. We work on policy and legal framework development, putting into consideration global views on all issues worked on.
We have worked with Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, Save the Children, Education in Emergency Working Group and UNICEF on active developmental issues. We have also worked with Dorcas Agape Care Foundation on a review of the legal framework. To our best, we are actively involved in developmental research for top clients.
Oluwagbemiga Owoeye
Associate