Visit Minister/Charge d'Affaires of Nigeria to A-Law International Law Firm

On the 12th of March A-Law was honored with a visit of the Minister/Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria H.E. Mr. Francis ENYA a.i. on the occasion of our seminar "Doing Business with Nigeria" at our Head office in Antwerp, Belgium.

(From left to right., Head C&M, Corporate and Management | Head Africa Team Mr. Thomas De Beule, Minister/Charge d'Affaires Embassy of Nigeria H.E. Mr. Francis ENYA a.i., Managing partner Mrs. Patricia Leers, Senior Counsellor (Economics) Embassy of Nigeria Mrs. Rahila  K. AYUBA)

The seminar was attended by over 27 participants from various sectors as Trading (spices), Construction, Engineering, Sanitation, Insurance, Surveillance, Animal feed, Investment, Banking, Logistics, VOKA-Chamber of Commerce, IT/ICT, etc.

During the seminar the participants gained in-depth insights in the Key Presidential and national masterplans put in place since the election of the Buhari led administration in 2015 such as the “ Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC)”.

As the Minister/Charge d'Affaires mentioned during his Speech "Nigeria has improved its ease of doing business up to 15 place since the 2019 World Bank Doing business report 2019".

During the welcome remark Managing Partner A-Law Mrs. Patricia Leers pleaded for a legal joint working committee between Nigeria and Belgium/EU (download full speech hereunder) to share and valorize the extensive experience and know how that Belgium (as one of the pioneering countries of the European project)/the EU has in combining the two systems of law, a combination which will be crucial for the success of the African single market across the 54 countries of Africa and which adopt a mix of common and civil law.  Moreover, Managing Partner Dirk De Beule being the representative in Antwerp of OHADA.

The EU legislation being at the forefront of global issues and Antwerp as the pioneering city of internationally oriented Antwerp lawyers who are at the origin of international institutions as the CMI (Comité Maritime International (“CMI”) being the oldest organization in the world that is exclusively concerned with the unification of maritime law and related commercial practices, unification and law certainty being of utmost importance for investors.

Credendo highlighted that since beginning of 2020 they have upgraded Nigeria to 5 on a scale of 7 and said “Please do Business with Nigeria!”. They now have the full capacity to support short & long term projects.  They further emphasized that the financing tools at their disposal serve small to medium sized enterprises as well as large enterprises.

We would like to thank the Embassy of Nigeria, BLNCC, DEME and Credendo for their support and interesting presentations.

For more information on the above or on our services on Nigeria please consult Attorney-at-law, Head of the international team, Patricia Leers on p.leers@a-law.eu

NEXT SEMINARS WILL BE ON "DOING BUSINESS WITH": TOGO/LIBERIA/INDIA/VIETNAM MID/END 2020.

Please forward mail to info@a-law.eu to reserve your place on time ( limited places, max. 30 p.)