Firm History

G.O. Sodipo & Co. is a major Nigerian firm formed in the mid-nineteen sixties with a broad based range of legal services with experience and effective connections with foreign firms in many parts of the world to handle transactions of national and international scope.

Our clients include individuals, corporate and governmental agencies. We give advice which enhance sound analysis and decisions which shape the formulation aid implementation of various transactions. We offer solutions in a speedy and cost effective way either through litigation or other alternative dispute resolution methods such as arbitration and mediation.

We understudy the nature of the business environment of our clients. This enables us understand commercial considerations underlying transactions which our clients are involved and the perceptions of issues by our clients including their objectives, priorities and needs, whilst simultaneously equipping us to identify and mitigate any associated risk.

We always adopt business oriented, fresh and imaginative but pragmatic approaches to issues based on a foundation of technical excellence in the law and a depth of commercial experience. Given the freshness of our ideas, our team of consultants and the friendly atmosphere in the firm, we are able to maintain a leading competitiveness necessary for our clients and the transactions we handle.

The firm is basically divided into six (6) major departments and these departments are the Corporate Commercials, the Aviation and Shipping, the Solid Minerals (Oil & Gas), Intellectual Property, Telecommunications and Computer Law, Real Property and the Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution Department.