Advocaat Law Practice, AOA Legal Advisers and Advocates consolidate operations through merger

Advocaat Law Practice, a commercial law firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja, is combining its operations with AOA Legal Advisers & Advocates, a boutique firm specializing in commercial litigation, arbitration, media, and entertainment law. The Deal structured as a merger, will see the merged firm continue to trade as Advocaat Law Practice across 3 offices located in Abuja, Calabar, and Lagos.

The merged firm will begin trading as a single entity with effect from November 2024, while integration and implementation continues toward the final closing of the transaction, which is anticipated to be on or before January 2025. Following the merger, Oladapo Ademola, FCIArb (AOA Founding Partner) now heads the merged firm's Dispute Resolution Practice Group.