JEE Practices

Africa’s financial services sector is projected to generate $225 billion in 2025 alone, and JEE’s specialist team of consultants is best placed to navigate this complex opportunity. We act for and represent several leading international, regional, and local financial institutions and corporations on a wide range of financial transactions. Together with our clients, we build effective teams to realise their objectives, anticipate their needs, and ensure that we exceed all expectations.

As part of JEE’s world-renowned Intellectual Property practice, our Brand Protection team is the best guide to Africa‘s complex trademark registration system, with its national and regional frameworks and differing protocols and legislation. JEE operates from the front-row seat at the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), ARIPO (African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation) Banjul Protocol on Marks, and the OAPI (Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle).

JEE possesses a deep and extensive background in Intellectual Property (IP), coupled with a strong expertise in Corporate and Commercial Law. This unique combination of legal proficiency allows us to seamlessly integrate IP considerations into commercial transactions, ensuring that our clients receive comprehensive and strategic guidance.

As a law firm that understands the business demands as well as legal requirements of multiple industry sectors, Jackson, Etti & Edu is Africa’s leading provider of Corporate Commercial & General Advisory.

JEE is internationally respected as the preeminent adviser in Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions transactions and cross-border acquisitions throughout sub-Saharan Africa and within Nigeria in particular. JEE’s expertise in this practice area is repeatedly recognised and ranked by such prestigious international legal directories as the International Financial Law Review and Chambers Partners Global.

The legal experts in JEE’s Energy & Projects team have profound knowledge and experience of Nigeria’s power, oil, and gas industries in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. The E&P team also provides services for Nigerian Content Reorganisation and Energy Finance. The E&P team not only has expertise of every aspect of the Nigerian energy industry, it stands at the forefront of legal counsel for players across the entire energy value chain, including energy project financiers.

Africa’s fast-growing economy brings the need for robust immigration, employment, and private client advisory. JEE’s in-depth expertise of multiple jurisdictions across Africa enables us to guide clients through all the necessary legislation to protect their interests and respect their employees.

Our award-winning Intellectual Property team is highly sought after across the world for its unparalleled expertise in handling a broad spectrum of intellectual property services. With an in-depth knowledge of both global and regional laws covering trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyright and domain names.

JEE’s top-ranked lawyers have an in-depth knowledge of the corporate world and its needs. For JEE’s clients, this means that each dispute is approached from a business angle and legal solutions are tied to commercial efficacies and profit imperatives.

JEE’s Real Estate practice represents investors; financiers; purchasers; vendors; and property development companies pursuing the huge opportunities afforded by Nigeria’s real estate sector. With a housing deficit of more than 28 million units valued at more than ₦21 trillion, Nigeria’s housing investment potential is huge – with projected exponential growth, existing high property rates, and rapid rate of urbanisation in cities such as Lagos.

JEE is the trusted legal adviser to local, regional and multinational clients on all matters of general regulatory compliance; competition law; anti-bribery; and anti-money laundering across a wide range of industries and sectors.