LAWFORT ATTORNEYS
A top-tier law firm based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Introduction

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Explore our values at Lawfort Attorneys!. Our staff have been able to utilize their combined orientation, experience, and global spread to guide our clients through various scenarios of exposure to legal risk. These exposures often occur as a result of the manner in which a client responds to existing legal and regulatory conditions or the manner, in which new or evolving developments in the law and regulatory environment may alter a client's original cost-benefit calculations.

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Scenarios for legal risk exposures are infinite, yet very costly if not adequately pre-empted and/or well managed. For instance, a business client who is entering into a new line of business or into a new market altogether is likely to face new sets of laws either specific to the sector into which he expands or the territory in which he is now to operate, or even the new parties with whom he is now to deal.

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In the short term, the failure to fully appraise the legal risks in an efficient manner while making these fundamental business and personal decision could result in costly mistakes and painful revisions and reversals. In the long run, such failure are gaps tend to place an otherwise prudent business actor in considerable competitive disadvantages or even grave danger criminal sanctions.

 

It is our duty at LAWFORT ATTORNEYS to pre-empt and manage these exposure scenarios. Further, we view it as an inescapable obligation to help our clients avoid or mitigate any adverse consequences that flow from such exposures.

 

In all scenarios, we constantly seek to use our advanced access to the law and legal institutions, our unique diversity, our combined staff and strength and experience, our global reach and strategic positioning to give our clients superior competitive advantage in any given market environment in which they may be involved. In the end, our firm aims to leave positive and admirable footprints in the sands of the community around us in the tradition of truly good professional mean and women.