Top Startups and MSME Law Firm in Nigeria
The uprising of Startups in Nigeria is indicative of potentials for growth in Nigeria. Notwithstanding, a plausible number of them still fail due to several reasons: improper advice at their formation stage.
Startups need swift, quality and accessible legal services to see them through their developmental phase. This is where OAL comes in. We contribute to how they create, discover, secure, and optimize their creative goods and services, enabling them to expand rapidly.
OAL provides legal, structural, and regulatory solutions to entrepreneurs and startups to help them navigate all stages of their growth process, including incorporation, structuring, compliance, funding options, and employee stock options, among other things.
Our guidance to emerging growth companies includes:
- Bootstrapping Agreements
- Business Acceleration & Incubation Advisory Service
- Business formation and structure
- Business Model Development Support
- Contracts and agreements
- Corporate-regulations Compliance
- Debentures
- Equity Investment
- Expansion Advisory
- Financing Arrangements & Agreements
- Financing, including identifying investors
- Grant Proposal
- Growth Advisory
- Industrial-regulations Compliance
- Intellectual property – patents, trademarks and copyrights
- Labour and employment issues
- Lean Startup Advisory
- Litigation
- Mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions
- Operations Advisory
- Partnerships
- Pooling Agreements
- Pre-Incorporation Agreements
- Real estate
- Regulatory compliance
- Shareholder Agreements
- Tax and estate planning
- Term Sheets
- Venture Capital Finance Advisory Services
Our people in Startups & MSME
Dr. Agbakoba is the Senior Partner and Head of the Arbitration and ADR practice group..
Yvonne heads the Corporate and Business Advisory Practice focusing on corporate governance, compliance with company..
Osita possesses 20 years cognate experience in legal practice, management, public policy, compliance, project management,..
Babatunde is an astute litigator who has honed his skills of persuasive speaking from his..
Collins is grounded in legal, regulatory, and public policy advisory services and assists governments at..
Beverley is a seasoned regulatory and compliance professional, as well as a lawyer with extensive..
Dr. Kemi was recognised by the United Nations as a life-time goodwill ambassador for her..
Ifeoma excels in handling complex family law cases, including divorce, custody disputes, parental child adoption,..
Udenna has extensive experience in commercial and general civil litigation, spanning trial and appellate levels...
With over a decade of experience in Corporate/Commercial Law, Nzube has actively participated in numerous..









