Africa Intellectual Property

JEE Africa Expertise
Africa Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

Africa Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

JEE has earned an international reputation for excellence in Corporate, M&A across sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular. Our team consistently features in prestigious legal rankings by Chambers Partners Global and the International Financial Law Review, following our clients’ success in seeing their complex, multi-faceted projects to safe completion.

IP Due Diligence/IP Audits

Operating in the Nigerian business environment entails obtaining sector-specific licences/permits and approvals of a general nature. Our team of experienced risk, governance, and compliance lawyers understands both general and sector-specific regulatory and the level of compliance expected by regulatory authorities.

We assist our clients in evaluating their IP portfolio or those of companies of interests to them, with a view to ascertaining the ownership, quality and quantity of IP assets of the target company. Each IP due diligence/Audit exercise is carried out meticulously thus ensuring the accuracy and exhaustiveness of same.

We conduct IP due diligence / audit exercises from the standpoint of a clear understanding of the client’s specific business objectives and are therefore able to provide clients with an detailed report that is appropriate for each specific transaction.

Operating in the Nigerian business environment entails obtaining sector-specific licences/permits and approvals of a general nature. Our team of experienced risk, governance, and compliance lawyers understands both general and sector-specific regulatory and the level of compliance expected by regulatory authorities.

Our clients think highly of us

  • They have a strategic approach and offer the personal touch.

    Legal 500 EMEA

    2024

  • Jackson, Etti & Edu advertises itself as a law firm for Africa and it lives up to its billing.

    World Trademark Review

    2024

  • They handle matters across the continent with extreme competence and can be trusted 100 per cent.

    World Trademark Review

    2024

Successes

  • Assisted a leading investor in obtaining an approval in respect of its investment in Nigeria at the National Pension Commission.

  • Assisted foreign investors in the financial, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and entertainment sectors to obtain relevant business permits necessary for legally commencing business in Nigeria