Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that is gradually changing the way we exchange value and transact business. A trustless system, blockchain is being applied to digital identity management, health record management, insurance policy management, intellectual property management, payments, supply chain management, title management and other areas.
As more digital assets are created, exchanged, or stored, there will be new opportunities as well as new risks, including legal and regulatory risks. Blockchain or cryptocurrency projects need to understand and appreciate the legal considerations in a target market.
This is where our blockchain practice comes in. Infusion Lawyers’ Blockchain Practice provides a multidisciplinary approach to clients work in this emerging area. As your partner in innovation, we will work closely with you to help you navigate the legal and regulatory compliance risks that may be associated with your project.
Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing the Risks in the Decentralized economy
We provide legal advisory services and regulatory compliance in accordance with applicable laws, regulations , guidelines and directives. Our professional guidance considers the positions of regulators whose regulatory frameworks and oversights may generally or specifically touch on blockchain applications in Nigeria.
Apart from legal representation, we are also able to work with policy makers and regulators who need expert guidance on policy and regulators for digital or virtual assets
Just as commerce is part of life, so are disputes to commercial life. Because we understand this fact and have integrated dispute resolution into our work, we help you resolve commercial disputes in ways that efficiently and effectively make you avoid or minimize the negative impacts of disputes on your business.
We are lawyers who understand that you value your commercial relationships. This is why we offer to you multi-dimensional commercial dispute resolution services aimed at the best resolution for your disputes in your best interest. We represent you without making you bleed.
Our commercial dispute resolution integrates negotiation and mediation. We are professionals in negotiation, having the capacity to help you reach outcomes on favourable terms. We are also mediators trained to facilitate amicable settlement of disputes.
As Mediation Advocates, we sit beside you at mediation sessions to ensure you take benefit of the flexibility and efficiency of the process. We infuse into our commercial dispute resolution services what your business needs to get disputes resolved without compromising the health of your commercial life.
Commercial dispute resolution is not only about fighting for you in court when business disputes arise, but also helping you prevent and manage these disputes in your commercial relationships. This preventive approach to commercial dispute resolution has enabled us help clients significantly minimize both legal and business risks. The result? We save you a lot of money and a lot of headache so you can focus on your business.
With our corporate practice, our clients are able to efficiently manage their companies in Nigeria. This covers corporate contracts, corporate structure, corporate governance, company regulations and securities. We provide company formation services, corporate secretarial services, regulatory and compliance services to businesses in Nigeria.
For pre-incorporation, we cater to our clients needs, including company formation, share capital structure and licensing and permits. And for post incorporation, we cater to needs such as attending meetings of the Board of Directors and General meetings, maintaining the statutory books and registers of the company as well as corporate seal, preparing company policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, handling notices, and rendering returns and filing changes at the appropriate registries.
Other needs we meet include providing non-transactional legal advisory services, developing corporate governance structures and providing legal policy orientation training to client’s staff.
Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing the Risks in the Decentralized Economy
Regarding securities, we work with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accredited professional firms and capital market solicitors to assist with securities transactions, including bond issuance, custodial arrangements, investment funds, and private placements, and rights issues. We also offer professional assistance to startups that require funding through the capital market in Nigeria.
Based on the needs of existing clients and increasing demands of new and prospective clients we now provide legal advice, assistance, and services in a broad range of law. This includes consumer protection, criminal law, employment law, real estate, and wills and probate.
If there is any area you require legal advice, assistance, or service which may not have been captured above or under our other practice areas, don’t hesitate to ask us. Contact us here.
Coined from the words ‘global’ and ‘local’, ‘glocal’ blends globalization and localization in a world that has become so connected there is a constant interrelationship between the global and the local.
It is a marketplace of ideas and ideals; a marketplace where world capitals meet at a roundtable for business; a marketplace where capitals and opportunities from around the world meet, breaking boundaries, pushing limits, and expanding frontiers both globally and locally.
By infusing Intellectual Property (IP) to what tech entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups do, we create value that keeps innovation going.
Glocal Practice combines both universalizing and particularizing considerations to give bespoke legal solutions to both existing and new clients. With our Glocal Practice, we combine local insight with global considerations to get you results.
If you are looking to explore opportunities in Nigeria and wish to minimize risks while maximizing rewards, you need to leverage the expertise and experience of a law firm that understands the local business environment and jurisdiction, combining this local insight with global considerations. The result? Helping you achieve just that-results.
If intellectual property (IP) is life, information technology (IT) is how we live it. How we live and do business today keep changing as technology advances. Collecting, using, and transferring data on technology-driven platforms is increasingly becoming regulated by laws, regulations, and standards.
From e-commerce to social media; technology and outsourcing to gaming; technology is at the heart of them all. Changes in technology continue to create both business and legal risks that no one can afford to ignore. Our IT practice helps tech businesses, innovators, and startups get IT right, keeping them safe, secure, and smart. As long as technology keeps evolving, so will the challenges it often creates.
By infusing Information Technology to the legal solutions we provide, we help tech businesses, innovators, and startups get the best from technology. To achieve this, we adopt a two-way approach to technology: 1. Safety approach; and 2. Opportunity approach.
Safety Approach: To keep you safe, we help tech businesses and startups minimize the legal and business risks that non-compliance with regulations and laws on data collection, use, and transfer create today.
Opportunity Approach: And to expand opportunities, we reposition tech businesses and startups to enable them take advantage of new opportunities created by technology.
Intellectual property has emerged as the leading asset class and the dominant source of value in the modern economy. The world is witnessing a paradigm shift and the economy is shifting towards intangibility, meaning that intellectual property is fast becoming the real deal.
This is why at Infusion Lawyers, intellectual property is central to all that we do, helping us discover, explore, protect, and maximize innovations to benefit innovators and our constantly-changing world. By infusing Intellectual Property (IP) to what tech entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups do, we create value that keeps innovation going.
From apps that help you live better to logos that keep your brand distinct from others; from a GPRS-enabled device that help visually impaired persons see to the unique shape of a smartphone, we apply our knowledge of copyright, trademark, patent, and industrial design to protect and maximize innovation.
This is why we approach IP protection comprehensively, innovatively, proactively, and strategically. We do this by developing IP strategies that don’t only protect your IP assets but also help you maximize them to ensure you are getting the best from your best asset.
When your innovation has become or is about to become a success story, disputes may arise involving how others use your innovative products or services without authorization. Our IP & IT Dispute Resolution practice ensures your best interest is always protected
Because we know intellectual property and information technology are critical to your innovative products and services, we do our best to avoid IP & IT disputes by minimizing risks associated with your innovation. But if or when something goes wrong and disputes arise, Infusion Lawyers will provide the advice you need to decide the way to go.
Our lawyers’ blend of IP & IT industry know-how and legal expertise enable Infusion Lawyers meet your dispute-resolution needs in a business-friendly and pragmatic way. When you work with Infusion Lawyers, our preventive approach to dispute resolution ensures that you are developing, exploring, and maximizing your innovation in a safe manner.
This minimizes infringement risks. From business model to startup, we do our best to also keep away potential infringers who want to unduly profit from your innovative products and services.
Intellectual Property (IP) and Information Technology (IT) are not just about law. IP & IT are essentially the power to innovate and the power to transform lives. Combining IP & IT means we have in our hands the two most powerful tools in the 21st century to grow, explore, protect, maximize, and support innovation to transform lives and businesses.
With IP & IT Advocacy, Infusion Lawyers is committed to promoting innovation in Nigeria, Africa, and beyond to empower people and advance humankind.
We believe that IP & IT should not only benefit the creator and innovator but also benefit others. Beyond IP protection, we need to push for the development dimension of IP to encourage our innovation, enrich our people, promote our culture, protect our investments, support our creative industries, and secure our future.
Through our IP & IT Advocacy, we will push for a home-grown IP agenda for Africa. And because of the critical role IT plays in today’s information age, Infusion Lawyers will also promote entrepreneurial ideas built on IT.
We will also promote traditional knowledge in Africa to create wealth for African people. By working with IP bodies in Africa, we will engage with the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) to push for an international legal instrument that benefits Africans. If not, Africa must have its own regional legal instrument for traditional knowledge and folklore.
To meet today’s constantly-changing and ever-demanding market needs, startups are springing up everywhere with innovative products and services-from Nigeria to India; United States to Japan; UK to Indonesia. But with the high rate of startup failure globally, one thing is clear-innovation alone won’t keep startups going.
To get startups going and going well, startups need easy and affordable access to quality legal services that uniquely support their growth from conception to maturity. Startups also need legal services that infuse something new into how they develop, explore, protect, and maximize their innovative products and services to enable them grow, and grow fast.
At Infusion Lawyers, we will guide startups through every stage of their lifecycle-from business formation to growth and expansion.