Succession (Inheritance) Law Practice

In meeting the succession needs of its clients, our firm engages in the preparation wills, codicils, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship documents, succession and asset planning for individuals, succession planning for medium and large family businesses and preparing businesses for optimal asset realization in the event of the death of the principal/majority shareholder

Our firm also handles probate or other proceedings in relation to the administration and settling of estate; legal representation for heirs, legatees (beneficiaries) and persons with legitimate interests in the estate as well as tax and duty issues connected with successions.

We assist our clients in developing succession plans and to avoid estate taxes. We leverage or experience in trusteeship when acting as the executors of our clients’ estate after probate. We have, with the strictest sense of confidentiality represented an elder statesmen from the South East Region of Nigeria prepare a will over his expansive real estate and movable property to cater for his large family and the procedure for admitting of the will to probate, as well as the preparation and execution of irrevocable trusts over his conglomerate and chain of companies, and followed up after his passing on.

We have also handled for a client resident in the United States of America the preparation and execution (cross border signing) of a will and admitting same to probate,