Tax liability attaches to the assets and incomes belonging to or accruing to persons which may, within the context, include natural and corporate persons under the laws in force in Nigeria . What this means is [...]
As part of its corporate social responsibility towards the community, ǼLEX supports Child Life Line. Child Life Line is a voluntary, non-profit-making and charitable association catering for children in need. It opened its first residential rehabilitation [...]
ǼLEX Senior Associate, Kofoworola Bamgbose, is ThisDay Newspaper’s Legal Personality of the Week. Please see attached and link below her interview titled “A Good Lawyer Must Have The Ability To Empathise”. Read More
One of the Partners in the Firm's Intellectual Property and Brand Protection Practice Group, Davidson Oturu LL.M, will be attending the Annual Spring Conference of the International Anti-counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) scheduled to take place from 16th [...]
Kofoworola Bamgbose is a Senior Associate in the Firm's Energy & Natural Resources and Regulatory Compliance Practice Groups. In 2017, Kofo returned from an 18-month secondment to Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). During [...]
ǼLEX is a proud sponsor of the 2018 Annual Law Week of the Lagos Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The event is scheduled to run from 5th – 11th May 2018 and it has the [...]
The Small Claims' Court was commissioned by the Chief Judge of Lagos State on Monday, 23rd April 2018. The Small Claims’ Courts are being established in all the Magisterial Districts in Lagos State. The essence of [...]
ǼLEX congratulates our Senior Associate, Tiwalola Osazuwa, on her appointment as the Social Secretary of the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria (IPLAN). Her appointment was made at the IPLAN Annual General Meeting that held on [...]
In a judgment delivered on December 29, 2017 in Toyota Motor Corporation v. Subaya Metalware Nigeria Limited & Anor , the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal held that the mere filing of a trademark [...]
ǼLEX has retained its top ranking in the 2018 Rankings by the Legal 500 for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). ǼLEX is ranked as a Tier 1 law firm in Commercial, Corporate and Merger & [...]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) issued the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption (Fiscalisation) Regulation in December 2017. The Regulation was made pursuant to the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Law which gives the LIRS [...]
ǼLEX is proud to be one of the sponsors of the forthcoming Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) International Petroleum Summit. Our Mr. Soji Awogbade (Partner) and Mrs. Kofoworola Bamgbose (Senior Associate) will be in attendance at [...]
Aelex Partner, Mr. Lawrence Fubara Anga, and Associate, Mr. Ishaya Amaza, will be participating in the German-African Energy Forum taking place in Hamburg from the 23rd to 25th April 2018. The theme for the Forum is [...]
Aelex Senior Associate, Olufunmbi Olutoyosi Kehinde, is ThisDay Newspaper’s Legal Personality of the Week. Please see attached her interview titled “A Lawyer Should Never Stop Reading”.
ǼLEX is pleased to announce that Olufunmbi Kehinde, Tiwalola Osazuwa, Rafiq Anammah, Adefolake Adewusi and Kofoworola Bamgbose have been promoted to Senior Associates.
Mrs. Funke Adekoya SAN, Member of the Scottish Arbitration Centre’s Arbitral Appointments Committee, providing the keynote address on 6th March 2018 at the 3rd Annual London Centre for International Law and Practice Conference. The keynote address [...]
In October 2017, the National Identity Management Commission – which was established under the National Identity Management Commission Act 2007 (NIMC Act)– issued the Mandatory Use of the National Identification Number Regulations 2017 (NIM Regulations). The [...]
Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of ǼLEX, Mrs Funke Adekoya, SAN, gave the keynote address, which focused on energy and arbitration in the Middle East and Africa, at the just concluded 3rd Annual London [...]
Nigeria, through the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit ("NFIU"), is a member of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units ("the Egmont Group”). The Egmont Group is an international anti-corruption body consisting of the Financial Intelligence Units [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently issued a directive, dated 31st January 2018, barring Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and Discount Houses (DHs) that do not meet the minimum Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) set by the [...]
