Practice Areas

Trade and Investment Policy Advisory

Accflaw appreciates the role of trade and investment in spurring economic growth of a country. Our team is keen on supporting corporations involved in both local and international trade and investment to meet their legal obligations. The experience of our team ranging from its participation during the development of the Protocols on Trade, Services and Investment of the AfCFTA and also having interacted with other regional trade agreements and investment frameworks, enables us to provide strategic advice and guidance on novel transactions. We therefore assist our clients with legal advice and preparing contracts on trade and investment transactions including sale of goods and services and transport of goods both locally, regionally and internationally. In addition, we advise on financing and payment aspects of such transactions. The team also advices and represents clients on settlement of disputes arising from such business transactions.

Governance and Compliance

Corporate governance is a key requirement under the international best practices, company law and sector specific regulations. Listed and non-listed companies need a well-thought advice in the capital markets field. Our team provides multifaceted advice on corporate governance compliance through handling regulatory and compliance requirements, conducting legal, compliance and secretarial audits, reviews, due diligence and preparing all the required documentation on behalf of clients.

Public and Private Sector Development

Our team has experience in offering advice on public and private sector development. The key theme of the team in such advisory is to ensure sustainable development and inclusive growth. Having worked with different stakeholders in the public and private sectors, the team has extensive understanding of the regulatory requirements and also the market trends and needs. Therefore, the team provides strategic advice to clients on project financing, infrastructure development, asset and debt financing, public-private partnerships and economic zones’ investments. As such, the team conducts legal due diligence, prepares project and finance agreements, advices on project and PPPs structuring, conducts risk analysis and mitigation and negotiates and concludes contracts on behalf of clients.

Digital Development

Digital development feature strongly in the current economic trends. Businesses are striving to cope up with today’s market demands in order to achieve their commercial objectives at the least possible risks. Accflaw prides itself has providing concrete advice to corporations on complex transactions on digital economy and development, e-commerce and fintech economy. In this regard, our team offers legal and policy advisories on regulatory compliance, transactional and operational requirements to companies involved in these fields.

“‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”

― Henry Ward Beecher

What we do

Policy advisory

We conduct Policy impact research and writing; Policy drafting; Monitoring and evaluation. We assist clients in undertaking both a qualitative and quantitative research on existing policies to establish any gaps, challenges and opportunities that inform our proposal on how to improve them.

Strategy development

We assist our client in designing tailor-made business strategies based the unique circumstances faced by our clients so as to ensure that their objectives are met. We assist clients, whether small business or large corporation, in staying up to date with market trends and your competitors’ services.

Training and development

We assist our clients in training their staff on our practice areas. This enables them acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes needed to meet their job and organizations objectives.

Secretarial Advice

Strategic management and administration and corporate governance is integral to successful business operation. At Accflaw, we ensure that our clients meet their management practice obligations. We do this through assisting our clients comply with regulatory requirements. We among other areas, advice clients on conducting organizational meetings. We also review effectiveness of an organization’s internal processes.