Company Secretaryship
Statutory compliance, board support and corporate record keeping.
- 2011
- Since
- 1
- On the desk
- 0
- Matters of record
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Speak to the desk
A partner takes the first call on every company secretaryship matter.
The work
Governance that is current, minuted and filed — so a board never has to reconstruct the record under pressure.
We serve as company secretary to Nigerian companies, maintaining statutory registers, convening and minuting meetings, and filing annual returns and changes with the registry.
Boards rely on us to keep governance calendars, resolutions and compliance obligations current.
What this desk does
Services under Company Secretaryship
How we engage
Four steps, one accountable partner.
Nothing leaves this desk that a partner has not read.
- 01BriefA partner takes the first call and frames the issue, the exposure and the options.
- 02ScopeWe agree the mandate, the team on the desk and the fee basis in writing before work begins.
- 03ExecuteThe named partner stays on the matter through drafting, negotiation, filing or hearing.
- 04ReportYou receive plain-language updates at each milestone, with the next decision made explicit.
What you receive
- Complete statutory register set
- Signed minutes and resolutions
- Annual return acknowledgements
- Annual governance compliance report
Who runs it
The lawyers on this desk
Oluwashina O. Olagbende
Managing Partner
Oluwashina is the Managing Partner of Legal Climate (Barristers & Solicitors), a lawyer with a powerful legal mind and a formidable serial investor and entrepreneur who sits as chairman for several companies.
He advises top-tier corporate clients and institutional investors, and combines that counsel with an entrepreneur's instinct for seeing commercial opportunity long before it arrives.
Corporate Law
Commercial Law
Project Finance
Where we practise
Lagos commercial reality, read correctly the first time.
Company Secretaryship in Nigeria is decided as much by regulators, registries and counterparties as by the drafting. We work the whole picture.
Sectors served
Where this desk works most often, and where the commercial context is already familiar to us.
Private companies
Groups & holdcos
Financial services
NGOs & foundations
Schools
Family businesses
Can you take over an incomplete record?
Yes. We audit what exists, rectify gaps and bring filings current.
Do you act as named company secretary?
We do, subject to acceptance, and we attend meetings in that capacity.
How are the fees structured?
We agree the basis with you in writing at the outset, covering the governance calendar and any filings separately.
Adjacent practices
Most matters cross more than one desk
Office
Plot 8A, Abba Saggoe Street, Michael Otedola Jubilee Estate by Omole Phase 2, Lagos, Nigeria
legalclimate76@yahoo.com
Telephone
+234 802 860 2551 · +234 803 242 5113 · +1 (470) 338 7999
Hours
Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm (WAT). Saturday & Sunday closed.