Legal Practitioners

AREAS OF PRACTICE

STERLING LAW ALLIANCE carries on a full service practice in all major areas of law. The firm is structured into 6 (six) major interdependent departments each overseeing distinct but related areas of legal work. The firm is capable of rendering qualitative legal services in the following areas among others:

v OIL & GAS/ ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

We advise in various transactions relating to Oil & Gas, including joint ventures, representative sales agreements, contracts for procurement and supply of oil tools and equipment, negotiation of claims for compensation for pollution damage, environmental impact assessment and audits etc.

v CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW

We engage in all aspects of Corporate and Commercial Law, including company floatation's, partnership formations, negotiations and preparation of contracts, assets sales and acquisitions, employment matters, industrial disputes and international trade.

v MARITIME & SHIPPING LAW

The firm, being located in an environment straddling two (2) shipping ports at Port Harcourt

metropolis and nearby Onne has evolved a growing Shipping Law Practice. It undertakes

preparation of charter-parties, ship management agreements, rendering advice in ship finance

and acquisition, legal aspects of carriage of goods by sea, and general shipping litigation, ship

and cargo insurance disputes.

v FINANCIAL SERVICES

We undertake work for banks and other financial bodies, and advise on legal aspects of banking. We engage in sourcing and negotiation of bank credits for projects and trade finance. We prepare loan agreements, mortgages, leasing agreements. We engage in debt recoveries and Insurance Law work. The firm also does work in the area of Intellectual Property that is to say, patents, designs and trade marks.

v LITIGATION & ARBITRATION

We act as Barristers and have the ability to deal with all aspects of commercial disputes requiring representing our clients in all levels of adjudication, from administrative and other tribunals to the High Courts, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Our litigation and conflict resolution practice deals with all issues involving Corporate and Commercial Law, and other areas of Law herein highlighted. We also represent foreign clients in actions in Nigerian courts, and act for Nigerian clients through our associated U.S. office and international correspondents to represent them in foreign jurisdictions. In this regard our solicitors are able to act in recovery of foreign debts enforcement of foreign judgments in Nigeria and of Nigerian decisions by foreign courts.

v PRIVATE CLIENTS

We advise private individuals on a range of matters including, wills, private business affairs, investments, family matters, disposal and acquisitions of assets, employment problems and defence of criminal suits.

CONCLUSION

Our firm has client followings transcending its local environs and all our lawyers consistently labour under the unwavering conviction that the satisfaction of our clients comes second only to God in our dealings.