When securities litigation arises in the context of a broader corporate crisis, we work closely with our white collar and securities enforcement team to assist clients in related civil and criminal investigations, enforcement proceedings, congressional inquiries and criminal trials.
Our lawyers in Nigeria represent public corporations, individual officers and directors of corporations, underwriters, accounting firms, and investment advisers in every area of securities litigation.
Experience has included advising:
- A minority shareholder in a petition for minority protection against a leading telecommunications company for unfairly prejudicial conduct
- An investment firm in recovery of debt, bankruptcy and winding-up proceedings against its debtors
- A multinational company in winding up a Nigerian company in an effort to enforce a monetary court judgement worth USD22 million.
- A petitioner seeking to enforce its minority protection rights in an action at the Federal High Court of Nigeria. We obtained a favourable outcome in the suit, as our client settled to sell its shares at a price of NGN22.5 billion