A full-service practice in Garki, Abuja. Corporate counsel, regulatory strategy, and advocacy at every level of the Nigerian court system.
Where the outcome is decided by a judge or a tribunal.
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Where it is decided across a table, then filed.
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Where a licence, a lease or a consent is the whole question.
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Where the work is done before anyone disagrees.
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The bottleneck in Nigerian legal work is rarely the argument. It is the hours between deciding what to say and having a document that can be filed. JURA is the firm's answer to that, and it is a product other practices can use.
Litigation drafting
Writs, pleadings, affidavits and written addresses, produced in the formatting the Nigerian courts expect rather than reformatted after the fact.
Research with citations
Nigerian case law searched in plain language, returned with the authorities attached so the reasoning can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Compliance that watches the calendar
Annual Returns, director changes and filing deadlines tracked and flagged before they lapse, which is where most corporate penalties actually come from.
JURA is software, sold separately. Subscribing to it does not instruct this firm, and nothing it drafts is legal advice from us.
That is the working method, not a line on a letterhead. We know how a case file is assembled before we are asked to take it apart, and how a regulator reasons before it writes. Clients are told which of those things will help them and which will not.
2021
Senior Advocate of Nigeria
Rank conferred at thirty-nine
2023
Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission
The first Senior Advocate to hold the office
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Practice areas
Nigerian matters do not stay inside one practice area. The counsel who takes the instruction keeps it, and brings the second team to the file rather than passing it on.
Corporate & Commercial
Formation, governance and the contracts a Nigerian business actually runs on.
Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Advocacy from the High Court to the Supreme Court, and arbitration under the 2023 Act.
White Collar & Criminal Defence
Defence and internal investigations before the EFCC, ICPC and the courts.
Banking & Finance
Lending, security and the CBN regime that governs both.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Diligence, negotiation and clearance through the FCCPC and SEC.
Energy & Natural Resources
Upstream, midstream and power work under the PIA and the Electricity Act.
Real Estate & Infrastructure
Title, governors consent, and the paperwork that survives a challenge.
Tax
Planning, filing positions and disputes before the FIRS and the TAT.
Employment & Industrial Relations
Contracts, terminations and proceedings at the National Industrial Court.
Intellectual Property & Technology
Registration, licensing and the NDPA obligations that come with data.
Regulatory Compliance & Government Relations
Licensing, engagement and judicial review of administrative action.
Mining & Solid Minerals
Mineral title, community agreements and the consents a site cannot open without.
Capital Markets
Issues, listings and continuing obligations under SEC rules.
Private Wealth & Succession
Wills, trusts and estate administration across statutory and Islamic law.
Constitutional & Public Interest
Fundamental rights, judicial review and pro bono representation.
Hussaini, Ishaq Magaji (SAN) took silk in 2021, when the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee conferred on him the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He was 39.
He came to private practice from thirteen years in public prosecution. He joined the Bauchi State Ministry of Justice as pupil state counsel in 2009 and rose to Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in 2020, carrying a caseload of contested criminal trials throughout.
Mr Magaji was appointed the fifth Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission in October 2023, the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria to hold that office. He holds no fee-earning role in the firm while the appointment subsists.
In eight sectors the commercial answer turns on an agency rather than a counterparty.
Each is a regime with its own licence, its own filings and its own way of saying no.
Every Nigerian lawyer belongs to the Bar. These are the bodies our founder also sits in.
NBA
Nigerian Bar Association
All counsel
BRIPAN
Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria
Fellow
ICSAN
Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria
Fellow
CICN
Chartered Institute of Creditors of Nigeria
Fellow
IoD
Institute of Directors
Fellow
CITN
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
Member
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