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Our services blend knowledge, professionalism and ethics with top class legal solutions, making work with the Crest Partnership a reassuring experience for clients.
We negotiate, draft and review contracts for you, from the simple to the complex, so that you are empowered to enter into agreements with a complete understanding of the terms, conditions, and obligations arising from your agreements.
Our approach to assessing and implementing contracts involves gaining a complete understanding of your business and your goals so we can integrate provisions limiting the risks and potential liabilities that may specifically affect your business.
Additionally, we will negotiate contracts on your behalf, that address possible contingencies and properly accommodate your interests.
We have a new but growing energy and Natural Resources practice unit. We understand the legal issues and the particular needs of our clients’ businesses, in providing legal advisory services across the oil and gas sector value chain. We advise international and indigenous oil companies, project sponsors, service companies, and financial institutions on various matters including, divestitures and asset acquisitions, licensing and regulatory matters, equity, debt and structured financing, restructurings, taxation, corporate and project finance amongst others.
Our Lawyers are well versed in the operations of the upstream and downstream sectors of the Oil and Gas Industry. They have been involved in the drafting and reviewing of production sharing contracts and joint venture agreements between companies operating in the Sector. They have also been involved in the drafting charter party agreements for vessels carrying/lifting crude oil products.
The firm prosecutes and defends litigation matters for its clients at all levels in courts and tribunals located in various states of Nigeria. The firm’s primary objective is to ensure that disputes arising from the business and commercial activities of clients are effectively resolved with minimum expenditure of time and resources. Our Dispute resolution team is made up of experts with requisite experience in the Firm’s other core practice areas. We well versed in in Debt Recovery practice and have successfully represented several banks and financial institutions as Recovery Agents including managing several high profile matters in this area. Our experience over the years has helped us garner useful strategies for effective debt recovery on behalf of our clients. Currently, we are retained by the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) as one of their external counsel and several local banks.
We provide our services here on a mutually agreed fee structure, determined on a case by case basis.
The firm is accredited with the Trademarks and Patents Registry in Abuja and has wide ranging experience in Intellectual Property Law and is strategically positioned to meet all your intellectual property needs.
We handle both the contentious and non-contentious sides of IP law and are trusted advisers to local and multinational corporates operating in different sectors for whom we manage IP portfolios and issues in a cost effective and efficient manner. We advice on registration of intellectual property rights, transfer and licensing arrangements, copyrights patents etc.
We handle disputes covering the full spectrum of IP rights and co-ordinate litigation and settlement strategies for clients in defence of their IP rights. We offer the most competitive professional fees structure in the field, with discounts available for large volume of work.
We regularly represent clients in commercial property (real estate) transactions from the stage of negotiations, due diligence and drafting of the contract documents, to registration and perfection. We also act as property agents and consultants. We have requisite experience in the Nigerian real estate sector, with the skills set to get the best deals for our clients.
Our team have consistently demonstrated an ability to deliver precise, frank and timely responses to clients’ enquiries. Members of the team also bring a good grasp of commercial realities to bear in structuring and documenting transactions.
In today’s fast moving world, we understand the need for your company to deal timely with labour and industrial issues, as well as to stay abreast of new legislation and legal perspectives. The Crest Partnership offers full range advisory services in matters of employment, including counseling, dispute resolution through arbitration and mediation, litigation, employee benefits, pension, workplace health and safety, out-sourcing, collective bargaining, immigration and employee issues arising from corporate restructurings and take-overs.
We draft standard employment contracts and employee hand-books for clients. We work closely with our clients, advising on strategic and operational employment issues and designing efficient policies taking into account, development in the legislative, judicial and commercial arena. We render proactive advice, helping clients minimise risks and avoid potential liability relating to all aspects of employee relations. We would be pleased to bring our experience to bear on all aspects of your industrial relations.
We have a team of lawyers who have provided first class services to clients in telecommunications sector. We are quite experienced in this dynamic environment. We combine industry knowledge with technical expertise to provide insights that help technology leaders deal with their complex business models. Our professionals go beyond today’s challenges to anticipate the potential long and short-term consequences of shifting business, financial and technology strategies.