Alliott Group expands legal membership to Nigeria through appointment of AAA Chambers in Lagos

Alliott Group, the international alliance of independent professional services firms, has increased its presence in West Africa by appointing Nigerian law firm AAA Chambers as their exclusive law member in the country.

The move meets the group’s need for an established and reliable provider of business law services in Nigeria and provides another foothold in Africa’s largest economy and one from which the alliance can expand further across the African continent.

Established in 2011 and located in the heart of the commercial district of Lagos, this Top 10 firm is headed up by highly experienced senior shareholder and founding partner Adetunji Adedoyin-Adeniyi. The firm has two additional partners and 23 associates and support staff who collectively have gained multi-jurisdictional legal experience and who excel in providing advice related to commercial and banking law, company secretarial law, debt recovery and insolvency work, asset and property management, land disputes, wills and probate, M&A and family law.

AAA Chambers is also highly regarded for its work serving a wide range of clients including those in the banking, telecommunications, insurance, real estate, aviation and oil and gas industries. Their strategy over the next few years includes strengthening their service offering by targeting clients in the maritime and construction sectors and partnering with organisations such as Alliott Group that can help to grow and internationalise their client base.

Founding Partner Adetunji Adedoyin-Adeniyi comments:

“It is a pleasure to be part of the Alliott Group family. Through our membership we now have global reach and can support and advise local clients looking for opportunities outside of Nigeria and foreign clients who are investing in Nigeria’s diversifying economy”..

Alliott Group COO Giles Brake adds:

“I am proud to welcome AAA Chambers to our international alliance. Throughout our due diligence process, the firm’s leadership team has demonstrated not only the high level expertise we have been looking for in Nigeria, but also a dynamic and responsive approach– these are valuable qualities which will differentiate them in the Nigerian medium sized law firm marketplace. Furthermore, their services complement those offered by our accounting firm in Abuja, G.E. Osagie & Co."

Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy due to its production levels of oil and gas and is now the biggest beneficiary of foreign direct investment in Africa. Nigeria's population (201 million) is expected to surpass that of the US by 2050, according to new UN projections that predict it could be the world's third most populous country by the end of the 21st century.

Alliott Group in Africa is growing organically at a steady rate and currently has a presence in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Zambia. The alliance is targeting further expansion into West Africa, but also into Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa and North Africa.

About AAA Chambers

AAA Chambers provides international standard legal representation and service par excellence to both its local and international clientele. Lead by a team of progressive legal professionals, the firm provides services ranging from litigation to corporate commercial legal services. AAA Chambers’ clientele are drawn from corporate organisations, banks, telecommunications and insurance companies, energy companies, international corporate and commercial clients, real estate, the maritime, oil and gas sectors and several entities. It is important to state that AAA Chambers has rendered legal advice with regards to company start-ups, mergers & acquisitions and general administration of corporate matters.

About Alliott Group

Founded in 1979, and with 160 member firms in 66 countries, Alliott Group is an award-winning international association (‘alliance’) of independent accounting and law firms that need deeper levels of cross border resources to develop reputation, visibility and new business. Alliott Group provides services to help its member firms to position themselves as the ‘go to’ firms in their local markets for businesses and private individuals with multi-market business interests.

Alliott Group is expanding fast, with 19 firms having joined in 2019. The alliance has its sights set firmly on growing its legal and accounting membership to 100 countries. Opportunities are available to independent professional firms in specific countries in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the key markets of Africa, China and the ASEAN countries, Australasia, the Gulf Cooperation Council region, Central and South America and the United States and Canada. For more information about membership, contact Damien McMenamin (damien@alliottgroup.net), Head of Global Business Development.