
Real Estate
We have a very well thriving Real Estate Practice. We are deeply involved in the negotiation of various property transactions such as outright sale of properties and assignments; leases, tenancies; mortgages and other interests in real estate.
We routinely draft various legal instruments pertaining to transactions in realties and facilitate the perfection of interests in realties. Our partners are counsel of choice to an electricity distribution company and as a Firm, we have handled the perfection of the interests of our client, in major assets reacquisition projects following the privatization of the electricity industry in Nigeria.
We have key contacts in some of the land registries in Lagos and across some of the States of the Federation, and even within the F.C.T, Abuja. We have successfully applied and obtained certificates of occupancy and where necessary, the governor’s consent in respect of disposition of interests in land, on record time.
In most cases, our approach is to conduct wide scale due diligence in respect of any property, which any of our clients may be interested in acquiring. This includes, conducting necessary searches at the relevant land registry; inspecting the relevant property; investigating the root of title by way of interrogations; and advising our clients thereon.
We have successfully advised on and enforced the terms of leases and mortgages; including the recovery of arrears of rent, termination of leases, and enforced claims as to repossession. We have also been deeply involved in the acquisition of properties across some of the major capital cities in Nigeria and around the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.