Repatriating dividends: clearing the conversion window on first attempt.
Investors who structure the CCI and dividend documentation correctly clear repatriation in days. Those who do not can wait months for the same transaction.
Investment & regulatory
Minority rights that hold: drafting reserved matters that survive the second board meeting.
A reserved-matters list negotiated at closing and forgotten by the second board meeting is not minority protection — it is a document nobody enforces.
When the regulator moves: the first 72 hours of investment defence.
How an investor responds in the first three days after a regulatory intervention shapes the entire dispute that follows — most companies waste that window.
Capital importation: why the CCI is the most important document in your entry pack.
Foreign investors who skip or mishandle the Certificate of Capital Importation lose the one document that guarantees repatriation of profit and capital later.
Five regulatory traps for first-time foreign investors.
Exchange control, capital importation, registration and licensing — the avoidable mistakes that cost months of runway and inflate the cost of every later transaction.
Sector caps and ownership restrictions: the map foreign investors actually need.
Nigeria’s investment regime is broadly open, but a handful of sectors carry foreign-ownership limits that catch first-time investors by surprise mid-transaction.