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CORPORATE, BANKING & COMMERCIAL LAW
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Banwo and Igbokwe's clients benefit from our expertise and extensive experience in a wide range of transactions and corporate finance work including:
- Debt Recovery, Debt Restructuring, Settlement and Consolidation
- Commercial Legal Drafting and Perfection
- Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Secured and unsecured loans;
- Liquidity facilities for structured finance transactions;
- Commercial paper back-up facilities;
- Senior and subordinated credit facilities;
- Acquisition credit and leveraged buy-outs involving both public and private companies
- Divestitures and Restructuring of private companies and businesses, shareholder and joint venture arrangements;
- Employment and Immigration matters;
- Special Banking and Financial Services Work, including equity offerings.
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COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
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Banwo and Igbokwe's litigation practice draws on its intimate knowledge of our clients' businesses and responds creatively to resolve disputes efficiently.
Our litigation lawyers offer expertise in:
- Company & Corporate law litigation;
- Contract claims of varied complexity;
- Debt Renegotiations and Compounding;
- Share Loans and Margin Loans Litigations;
- Insolvency, Reorganizations and Bankruptcy;
- Intellectual Property and Copyright Protection actions;
- Commercial Class & Representative Action Lawsuits
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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW
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Banwo, Adeyemo and Igbokwe entertainment law team provide competent, experienced and efficient service in the fields of Entertainment and Media Law. In addition to our services in the traditional media, our practice includes work relating to content and services delivered via the Internet/World Wide Web and other emerging technologies.
Some areas we handle include:
- Counseling and representing producers, writers, actors, directors, and crafts-persons
- Production , finance and distribution agreements
- Structuring production and financing entities
- Investor financing arrangements
- Title searches and interpretation
- Privacy, publicity and defamation issues
- Counseling and representing record labels, music publishers, producers, recording artists and songwriters
- Negotiating and drafting music licenses, recording and producing agreements, touring-related agreements
- Copyright registration, protection and licensing
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REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY LAW
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Banwo and Igbokwe, attorneys-at-law. specializes in providing legal advice and representation to real estate investors and developers both in Nigeria and in the united States. Our clients in the real estate industry include:
- Local and International Private Investors and developers
- Real estate agents and brokers (residential and commercial)
- Builders, Contractors, Architects and designers
- Suppliers (retail and online)
- Lenders and mortgage companies
- Landlords
- Property management companies
- Homeowner's associations
Our specialty is creating strategies designed to protect real estate holdings, while increasing returns on investment properties through strategies such as condominium conversions.
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IMMIGRATION AND VISA APPEALS
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Immigration and Nationality Law (USA, U.K AND CANADA)
Our team of attorneys have over 20 years experience in Immigration Proceedings in several continents including USA, Nigeria and United kingdom. Some of our specialized services include:
Non-immigrant Visas to U.S.A, U.K and Canada
- Visitors Visas,
- Student Visas,
- Visa Appeals etc
Temporary Worker Visas to USA, U.K. Canada:
Permanent Immigration to USA, U.K, and Canada
- HSMP
- Permanent Labor Certifications
- DV Lottery
Deportation and Removal Defense, and Immigration Appeals
- Denial of Applications
- Deportation or Removal Proceedings
- Petitions for Review and Declaratory Relief to U.S. Federal Circuit Courts
- Motions to Reconsider and Reopen
- Criminal Convictions
- Hearings before the Immigration Judge
- Stays of Deportation and Cancellation of Removal
- Appeals of Decisions
- Consequences of being out-of-status
Special Immigration Petitions and Projects
- Asylum Applications
- Self-Petitions for Abused Spouses
- Religious Workers
- F-1 Students
- Naturalization/Citizenship Applications
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AIRCRAFT AND AVIATION LAW
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Banwo and Igbokwe has built up a reputable practice in the Aviation sector. Over the years, we have represented several international and domestic air carriers, for whom we have provided legal advice on their corporate and commercial interests. In their transactional dealings, we have also acted as counsel to an international airline in the negotiation and documentation of a joint operating/code-share agreement with the national carrier in Nigeria.
The firm has acted as local counsel in several aircraft wet lease agreements and has given advice on liens and aircraft registration requirements. We are often involved in providing legal advice to international airlines leasing companies that are entering into an
aircraft operating lease agreements with a domestic passenger airline carrier.
The range of services that we have provided on behalf of clients include:
- Drafting operating lease agreements;
- Powers of attorney;
- Assignment of aircraft insurance;
- Repossession and deregistration procedures in Nigeria;
- Claims by third parties and other non-statutory liens. Banwo and Igbokwe team works with clients from the start-up stage by providing legal advice on the incorporation of international airline companies.
We provide legal advise on corporate regulatory compliance ranging from employment and labor issues to the engagement of skilled personnel. As local counsel to domestic and International passenger airline companies, we will provide legal representation in claims and disputes under contracts of air carriage.
The scope of our instructions involves our understanding of and working relationship with regulatory bodies in Nigeria, particularly
the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Ministry of Aviation (MOA).
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