OBA OLUFON & CO.

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The firmEst. 2013

A law firm built around outcomes — not billable hours.

Founded in 2013, OBA OLUFON & CO. has grown into a modern, solution-focused practice serving corporations, investors, financial institutions, diplomats, families and individuals across Nigeria.

Founding principle

The work of a law firm is not paperwork.

It is the protection of value, the resolution of disputes, and the orderly transfer of what people have spent lifetimes building. Every engagement is judged by that measure.

— OBA OLUFON & CO., est. 2013

Aerial view of Abuja's Central Business District with Aso Rock in the background.
Abuja · Federal Capital Territory — the firm’s home jurisdiction

OBA OLUFON & CO. is a modern and solution-focused law firm committed to protecting the legal, commercial, financial and personal interests of its clients. The firm provides comprehensive legal services across litigation, advisory, recovery, transactional and regulatory work — built on a single discipline: strategy serves outcome.

From its base in Abuja’s Central Business District, the firm represents businesses, investors, financial institutions, foreign nationals, diplomats, families, property owners, employers and employees — a deliberately broad client base that reflects the way modern matters move between sectors, jurisdictions and personal interests.

The practice is driven by professionalism, strategic advocacy, commercial awareness and an uncompromising dedication to clients’ objectives. The firm does not chase volume; it chases results that clients can measure — capital recovered, transactions closed, positions defended, legacies preserved.

A firm structured around the client’s matter.

Every engagement begins with the commercial outcome and works backward into legal strategy. That principle shapes everything from intake — where senior counsel attends the first meeting — to enforcement, where judgments are not the finish line; collected funds and protected positions are.

The firm operates with the discretion expected of counsel for high-profile parties and the speed expected of counsel for time-critical instructions. Confidentiality is the default. Senior attention is the standard.

O.B.A. Olufon Principal · Head of Legal Practice

Mission

Strategic, efficient and exceptional legal solutions — that protect and advance our clients’ interests.

The work is judged on three measures only: clarity of advice, quality of representation and durability of result.

Vision

To be a leading law firm renowned for legal excellence, strategic advocacy and commercial effectiveness.

Excellence as standard. Strategy as discipline. Commercial intelligence as the lens through which every legal question is examined.

Core values

Six principles that shape every engagement.

Professionalism

Conduct, communication and standards consistent with the most senior commercial bars — every matter, every client.

Strategic advocacy

Advocacy in service of strategy. Strategy in service of the client’s commercial position. Never the other way around.

Commercial awareness

Legal opinions delivered with the regulatory, sector and capital-structure context they need to be useful.

Confidentiality

Discretion as a working principle. Engagement protocols designed for sensitive matters and prominent parties.

Relentless advocacy

Once instructed, the firm presses every legitimate strategy to advance the client’s interest — through to enforcement.

Client centricity

The matter belongs to the client. The firm’s role is to make that matter resolve on terms the client can live with — and prefer.

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The approach

Senior counsel at intake. Strategy before pleadings. Enforcement, not just judgments.

The firm is structured so that the lawyer who meets you on day one is the lawyer responsible for your matter at trial — and at settlement. That continuity is a deliberate choice: it produces faster decisions, sharper strategy and clearer accountability.

For commercial matters, the firm thinks like a counterparty: what does the other side want, what can they accept, and what is the lowest-cost path to your preferred outcome? For contentious matters, the firm thinks like an enforcer: a judgment in your favour is the start of the work, not the end.

The journey

Built deliberately, year by year.

A practice grown not by headcount but by the steady widening of what the firm can protect — from a focused disputes shop to a full-spectrum commercial and private-client practice.

2013

The firm is founded

Established in Abuja on a single conviction — that clients deserve counsel that is commercially aware, strategically deployed and personally accountable.

Early

A reputation in recovery

The practice builds its name on difficult recovery and enforcement work — turning contested judgments into collected funds for banks and corporates.

Growth

Diplomatic & notarial capacity

In-house Notary Public capacity and a discreet diplomatic-protection practice serving missions, consular posts and foreign principals in the capital.

Expansion

Cross-border & investment

Foreign direct investment, infrastructure and investment-protection work follows international clients into the Nigerian market and back out again.

Today

Fifteen practice areas

A full-spectrum practice — from recovery and enforcement to private wealth, legacy and family-office structuring — under one accountable roof.

Professional standards

Practice governance and conduct.

Operating in accordance with the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners and the highest standards of the Nigerian bar.

Admission

Supreme Court of the FRN

All lawyers are duly admitted Solicitors and Advocates of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Conduct

RPC compliant practice

Practice maintained in accordance with the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners.

Confidentiality

Privileged engagements

Strict legal professional privilege and client confidentiality across all retained matters.

Notarial

Notaries Public

In-house notarial services for diplomatic envoys, corporates and international documentation.

Data protection

NDPA 2023 aligned

Personal-data handling aligned to the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 and applicable regulations.

Reach

Nationwide representation

Representation across federal and state jurisdictions; coordinated cross-border counsel for foreign matters.

Begin an engagement

Tell the firm what you are facing.

Initial consultations are confidential. You will leave the conversation with a clear view of the options, the costs, and the realistic time to a result.

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