Doing Business in Nigeria

About the Book

This handbook is a product of the challenges experienced by potential investors in Nigeria. The key challenge we have witnessed is that there is a gap in accessing relevant information and resource material in key sectors of the country. Access to reference guides is most important, particularly to foreign investors who require an understanding of the sectors they want to invest in prior to coming into the country. This handbook is therefore intended to serve as a resource material and a reference guide to investors, businessmen and women, Chambers of Commerce, legal practitioners, and anyone interested in knowing the requirements for participation in any of the listed sectors in Nigeria. The handbook makes reference to Nigerian legislation and the relevant sections of the law on permit and licensing requirements within the listed sectors. This handbook covers the major sectors with attractive investment appeals, and thus, it takes account of a broad spectrum of the sectors in country, such as insurance; aviation; taxation; electronic money transfer/payment systems; registration of courier services and clearing and forwarding agents; maritime, including registration of ships; energy/power; solid minerals; oil and gas, including issues bordering on local content development; entertainment; licensing and censorship; radio; sound; television; cable or satellite station; intellectual property, specifically, the registration of trademark, patents, copyrights, and designs. There’s also telecommunication licenses; environmental standards and regulations that impact upon operating a business in Nigeria; immigration, including obtaining expatriate quotas; residence permits; and licensing and regulation of private guard companies in Nigeria, etc. It must be pointed out that the handbook does not intend to override or remove the need to consult a legal practitioner with an understanding of the Nigerian legal system when appropriate. Nonetheless, the handbook will provide useful information to its audience.

About the Author

A&E Law Partnership is a multidisciplinary legal consulting firm with vast experience in developing capacity building, transactional advisory services, institutional assessment, and institutional reforms, PPP, Public Procurement, Public Finance Management and litigation. The firm also has a robust policy practice in Institution systems analyses, synthesizing and structuring, advising and implementing transactions for public and private institutions and for specific projects and initiatives all in line with international best practices and standards. A&E Law Partnership also possess experience in analyzing, supporting and strengthening governance and related management system of governments and public institutions at the Federal and States level, targeted at resolving critical legal, governance and development challenges. It is a corporate member of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industries; the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce, Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association, and registered Capital Market Operators in Nigeria. It is also registered on the National Database of the Particulars, Categorization and Classification of Contractors, Consultants and Service Providers of the Federal Bureau of Public Procurement. For the last 2 years, A&E Law Partnership has published an electronic newsletter titled, ‘Regulation and Investment Review’ through which it disseminates information on the Business and Regulatory events in Nigeria with about 10,147 subscribers from amongst corporate executives, top government functionaries, public agencies in Nigeria, Nigerian embassies abroad and international development organizations. A & E Law Partnership is a registered law firm with the Corporate Affairs Commission and has its head office at 1st Floor, UACN Building, Central Business Area, Abuja, and other offices in Lagos and Aba, Abia State Nigeria. Further information about the firm can be found on our website www.aandelaw.com while enquiries can be made to office@aandelaw.com