From mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and venture capital to private and public equity and debt offerings, we assist clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.
As a serviced business law firm, Lawworks & Partners provides a complete range of business legal services.
Our clients benefit from a valuable combination of regional insight and local knowledge that allows us to handle all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Understanding the industry and the day-to-day issues faced by our clients is critical to our success.
Furthermore, in addition to the corporate lawyers with primary transactional responsibility, our deal teams include sophisticated practitioners with experience in key practice areas, such as international trade, technologies and intellectual property, real estate, financial services, infrastructure, litigation, arbitration and investigations.
Our clients benefit from our significant experience in orchestrating complex, long-term projects that involve drafting documentation, facilitating negotiations, navigating legal and regulatory issues and, when necessary, litigating on their behalf.
Real estate has emerged as an attractive long-term investment for investors seeking diversification and stable yields within an uncertain economy. In addition, many traditional real estate companies and multinational corporations now have needs that transcend borders resulting in the emergence of a global real estate industry.
We represent clients before national, supra-national and sub-national governments and administrative organizations on a broad array of public policy, legislative, regulatory and administrative issues:
Companies that transact business around the globe must comply with a myriad of statutes and administrative rules and regulations, many of which directly affect their ability to conduct business or expand their reach. The regulatory, government affairs and public policy environment is constantly changing affected by politics, history, legal decisions, interest groups, precedent and news events.
Effective compliance begins with an independent and realistic assessment of the legal, compliance, and reputational risks that could threaten your business objectives.
The firm takes a cross-disciplinary approach in our engagements, because the path to success frequently is not linear, but one that requires carefully coordinated efforts in different forums.
Our government advocacy team includes skillful litigators and subject matter professionals knowledgeable on a wide variety of policy issues.
Accordingly, our lawyers and policy professionals often work across borders and practice groups in interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the most efficient and effective results for our clients.
We have the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political and cultural context to legal issues and develop case strategies. We through our associates handle technically challenging and complex multi-jurisdictional matters. We work with you to manage potential risk and implement the most effective solutions to reduce costly escalation. We aim to solve complex business disputes as swiftly and effectively as possible and provide solutions which are aligned with your business objectives.
In an environment where regulation and its enforcement will only increase, we recognize that effective compliance and avoidance of regulatory intervention are business critical issues.
Globalization of world markets has brought limitless commercial opportunities. However, it has also increased the potential for legal liability by exposing corporations around the world to financial and reputational risk across multiple jurisdictions. Mitigation of those risks requires early engagement with experienced lawyers who understand the cultural as well as the legal and regulatory landscapes but who will also drive relentlessly to deliver results for their clients when a dispute or regulatory intervention is unavoidable.
Our lawyers provide both litigation-related (contentious) and strategic commercial advice to a wide range of industry sectors, helping clients and institutions achieve their objectives and protect their businesses and brands.
We help our clients to realize their financial strategies in whichever markets they do business.
We share knowledge and skills in deals involving, for example, lending and borrowing, debt securities, derivatives, funds, portfolios and Fin-Tech solutions, as well as infrastructure and other projects. Through our associate tax consultants, we provide tax advice to clients in areas of operation
Our lawyers understand the commercial, strategic, technical, geographical and political factors that shape and impact these sectors, as well as the business issues and risks inherent when working in these areas. Our presence also allows us first-hand access to contacts, sponsors and key decision-makers in west Africa.