In this practice, we advise public and private companies and institutions on all aspects of corporate activities, including company formation and management, joint ventures, management buy-outs, employment, negotiating and drafting of all types of commercial contracts and insurance just to mention a few. The members of this department are comfortable and conversant with all kinds of contractual arrangements such as non-disclosure and secrecy, licensing, distribution, outsourcing, agency and franchising, leasing and factoring, sales and commercial leases. The team is uniquely qualified to negotiate and prepare highly specialized contractual documents.

We have longstanding reputation for their representation of major public and private companies and institutions on all aspects of corporate activity, including privatization, mergers and acquisition, joint ventures, management buy-outs, etc. as well as providing specialist support in areas such as pensions and employee benefits. This department also advises on corporate and securities regulatory issues, disclosure and corporate governance matters and on transactional structuring. This practice is also actively involved in creating and developing sophisticated corporate structures and financial instruments.

We advise on all aspects of commercial banking and lending business. The Firm supports borrowers, lenders, issuers, lead managers and trustees on debts, syndicated lending, drafting and registration of security documents, trade finance, structured asset, project finance, debt recovery, receivership and liquidation. Our banking and projects experience, combined with strengths in areas such as outsourcing, construction, property development, facilities management and utilities has put us firmly at the forefront of this field. The Firm is actively involved in creating and developing sophisticated corporate structures and financial instruments. Our team is uniquely qualified to negotiate and prepare highly specialized contractual documents.

In addition to the foregoing, the Firm has the capabilities in working in diverse capital markets and venues. These include initial public offerings and private placements of securities. Some of our members have previously been at the centre of establishing collective investment schemes.

D.K.M Legal leads in the protection of intellectual property rights. The firm is actively involved in handling applications for trademarks and patents, including contentious and non-contentious work, such as licensing and franchising, trademark infringement, passing off, opposition proceedings, copyright and design right, confidential information disputes and protection.

In addition, the Firm has, since its inception, provided services to commercial and private clients in a wide variety of transactions involving real property. The services include conveyance, mortgages of land, leases and title opinions and title actions.

The Firm handles a wide variety of domestic and international commercial disputes relating to construction, defamation, employment, financial and corporate matters, insolvency, insurance, debt recovery etc. Our litigation department has substantial experience in a wide variety of business and commercial litigation and arbitration including in sectors such as infrastructure, banking and financial institutions, construction, communications and insurance.

The Firm has extensive experience in advising on tax matters and we possess one of the experienced legal tax teams. We have the knowledge, insight and commercial know-how to assist our clients on all aspects of taxation law including tax planning and tax dispute resolution (litigation). Our team is skilled in providing advice on cross – border financing, corporate income tax, transfer pricing, international tax, corporate structuring and tax planning for multinational organizations.

In this area of practice, we advise boards of directors, trustees and management teams in Commercial Banks, Financial institutions, Private companies, Trust Funds, Religious institutions, Non Governmental Organizations and various other commercial and charitable bodies on how they can effectively discharge their duties particularly in the current environment where regulators increasingly seek to hold directors/trustees/managers accountable for failures in their organizations or products.

The Firm is composed of the members who possess vast experience in advising various clients on matters ranging from the regulatory aspects of their registrations, restructurings, annual statutory filings, taxation and