Practice Areas
Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
Fortress has a heavy footprint in international commercial arbitration, mediation, and other ADRs, garnered with vast experience in oil and gas and maritime arbitration.
Banking and Financial Services
We are among a select few law firms of first recourse for banks and other financial institutions, both locally and internationally, in the provision of full-fledged, in-depth, and excellent banking and corporate finance consultancy.
Business Set-Up
We regularly assist local and international promoters of diverse business entities to get their dreams off the ground. We help clients to establish and incorporate companies, branches, and liaison offices within Nigeria.
Company Secretarial
Our services in this area straddle the entire focus of company secretarial duties, including areas that would normally have fallen within the scope of the duties of an in-house counsel
Corporate & Commercial Litigation
We believe that litigation should be a last resort and therefore adopt an approach that provides clients with strategic legal guidance on how to minimize litigation risk and avoid litigation
Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency
We provide timely and effective advice to assist in the improvement of a business’s performance, overcome operating or financial difficulties, and ultimately protect future value for stakeholders
Data Protection and Privacy
The Firm boasts of a team of exceptional data protection and privacy experts with enviable credentials and experience in the area of data protection law and practice.
Information Technology
We represent a number of local and international clients and have advised on many IT transactions. In all of these, we provide the necessary documentation for the transactions.
Intellectual Property
We provide world-class advice on all aspects of intellectual property. Our intellectual property experts constantly advise on local and cross-border acquisition, exploitation, use, and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Insurance
Fortress Solicitors combines superior technical skills, ingenuity, and deep industry knowledge to provide industry-focused and issue-based legal solutions to our diverse clientele in the insurance sector.
Labour & Employment
We are renowned for our practical business perspectives and solutions in guiding clients through the complex morass of employment laws and regulations.
Oil and Gas
Fortress Solicitors provides advisory services in all aspects of the oil and gas industry, including but not limited to energy industry agreements and securing compliance, registration, and regularization with the Department of Petroleum Resources.
Power and Energy
Fortress Solicitors has extensive and wide-ranging experience in providing legal advice on power transactions and renewable energy.
Private Equity
Fortress Solicitors provides full legal support to clients involved in private equity transactions, including institutional and accredited investors, as well as to businesses receiving such investments
Project Finance
Our project finance practice offers in-depth knowledge across a range of industry sectors, including financial institutions, energy, power and infrastructure, transport, including aviation and shipping, and technology and innovation
Real Estate
Our Real Estate Practice is renowned for its sophisticated experience, skill, and support necessary to deliver a high level of service across all real estate matters
Shipping
We at FORTRESS render specialized, experienced, and efficient services in this area of law and business. We have a well-established shipping law practice.
Taxation
The firm has a well-established taxation practice. We have been retained tax advisors to three of the major indigenous players in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry in Nigeria for more than eight years.
Telecommunications
Being a heavily regulated sector, Fortress Solicitors works with clients to ensure they fully understand and meet their regulatory obligations, both in transactional and operational matters.