No: 1 Lawfirm
Law Future Partners
We Deliver high quality Legal Services in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner as well as Tax solutions that meets specific needs of our clients.
About us
LAW FUTURE PARTNERS is a full service law firm. The firm is vastly experienced and focused on understanding its client’s needs and aiding their realization in an age of ever-more complex and dynamic personal and corporate relationships. The firm is able to leverage on its unparalleled depth of institutional knowledge garnered from many years of innovative legal services by its partners.
OUR SERVICES
Given the diverse clientele our lawyers have served, our experience spans a wide and dynamic range of practice areas. The firm is able to render legal services on all areas of Nigerian Law. Our competence traverses the entire gamut of the law. The firm strategically ensures capacity building and can conveniently select from its deep pool of experienced practitioners to service our ever-increasing client base at every point in time. Our people regularly write articles and legal updates on these areas of practice and many more.
In recognition of the nature of relationships in the age of information technology and artificial intelligence, our firm is committed and is able to render services to clients anywhere in Nigeria and beyond. Distance and the inconvenience of a physical meeting is no barrier. We also have offices and partnerships in major state capitals in Nigeria and Abuja.
CORPORATE, COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES
We provide legal advice on all aspects of company formation and operation, Partnerships, Joint Ventures, Registered Trustees and Sole Proprietorship. We assist with company re-organization, floatation, take-over, mergers and acquisitions, liquidation, winding-up and receiverships. Our services include searches, perfection of security, nominee services and secretarial services. We also draft and review commercial contracts in the general areas of sale of goods, asset purchases, asset leasing, agency, distributorship, franchising and other contracts relating to business.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
We provide advice on the procedures for the acquisition of Bank, Micro- Finance and Insurances licences and also the compliance requirements of Anti-Money Laundering legislation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act. Financial technology (Fintech) is a major part of our practice. We assist financial technology companies on the regulatory environment in Nigeria.
Our practice include all aspects of domestic financing, including corporate finance, project finance, syndicated lending, assets finance, secured credit transactions, loan and finance agreements, mortgages, documentation and perfection of debentures; equipment lease financing and documentation, etc.
ELVIS E. ASIA
LLB (Hons.), B.l,LLM, MCIArb, ACTI ( Managing Partner)
Elvis E. Asia graduated from Ambrose Alli University in 2007 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2008. He obtained a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 2013. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
Elvis was a Senior Counsel at the law firm of Chief Rotimi Williams’ Chambers before founding the firm. He has advised local and foreign clients on various aspects of Nigerian law, including project financing, gas flare commercialisation agreements, oil and gas development, production and divestment, cross-border lending, intellectual property protection, utility-scale solar generation facilities development in Nigeria, and public private partnerships, among others.
Elvis has extensive experience in commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented clients at all levels of courts in Nigeria and appeared in numerous arbitration proceedings. He has also acted as an arbitrator in a high-profile dispute over share ownership and related matters.
Elvis is a prolific writer, with articles on novel areas of law published in major journals, newsletters, and newspapers globally. His article on the constitutionality of the Value Added Tax Act was published prior to the landmark decision of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, on VAT. He is also the author of the book Oil and Gas Insurance and Nigeria’s Local Content Policy.
His practice areas include dispute resolution, taxation, corporate/commercial law, intellectual property, oil and gas, family law, entertainment, and information technology law.
