The Firm

Omoruyi Afe & Co (OAC) was established on September 1, 2006 making available to its clients, twenty-five (25) years of working experience in the Legal, Capital and Public Sectors of the economy of its founding partner.

OAC is registered with the Nigerian Securities & Exchange Commission as Capital Market Consultant -Solicitor and are also accredited with the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission.

OAC offers a full range of world class specialist legal and business advisory services.

OAC provides exceptional comparative advantage in matters relating to the local and international capital markets - both stock and money markets - arising from its experience, knowledge and understanding of the workings of the sectors. OAC can therefore provide exhaustive legal advisory services to Banks, Mortgage, Insurance, Registrars, Trustees, Asset Management, Custody institutions. Others include Issuing Houses, Quoted Companies and those seeking to raise capital from the stock market or on their own by way of private placement. OAC can advise on Initial Public Offerings, Offers for subscription, Offers for sale, Rights Issues, listings by introduction, Loan stocks and Governments Bonds.

The Firm has exceptional strengths in handling Public Sector related matters either at the Federal, tate or Local Government levels as it has over the years dealt with the various sector within the public sector and has established a reliable resource and contact network in the sectors nationwide, but more specifically in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Edo, Lagos, Delta, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Taraba States.

OAC also offers additional advantage to clients as clients will benefit from the firms' expertise in management and finance. This places OAC in a unique position to thoroughly understand a client's business operations and commercial objectives and to innovatively meet the client's demands as well as ensuring the clients compliance with all existing Laws. It also places OAC in a particularly advantageous position to advice on all forms of corporate restructuring such as Reconstruction, Mergers and take­over. OAC can also act for and on behalf of its clients on Boards or Committees of their subsidiary and other companies or parastatals or as external Company Secretaries.

OAC is also well positioned and seised of the necessary knowledge and experience to act as a Receiver or Manager of the property or undertakings of an indebted company. OAC recognizes the importance, as required by law, to act in the best interest of the company, to preserve its assets, further its business and promote the purpose for which the company was formed and to give special consideration to the client appointing it.

OAC can handle litigation as well as alternative dispute resolution in respect of any disagreement that may arise from business or commercial transactions of our clients whether in any superior Court of record, Tribunal or any other forum. OAC with the assistance of its experienced Correspondent Firms, can also represent its client any where in the world. OAC undertakes to apply its resourcefulness, experience and training to effectively resolve disputes, ensuring that minimum resources - both time and money - are expended by the client.