
Highly skilled and results-oriented legal professional, with strong business acumen and a sound understanding of contractual needs of rapidly growing businesses, including entertainment and multimedia businesses. Over 8 years of experience with the strong technical skills including negotiation, drafting, analytical, and stakeholder management skills. Excellent communication skills with a good eye for detail.
● Negotiated contractual terms and drafted video production contract between production company (client) and executive producer and director hired to produce music videos, short films, and motion pictures for prominent music artist and record label based in Lagos Nigeria. Music videos produced under the contract have over 9,768,001 streams on Spotify.
● Advised production company (client) on contractual terms regarding co-production of movie production project valued at $2,500,000. Negotiated, prepared, and managed contract paperwork which included terms for protecting production company's intellectual property, distribution and licensing rights, regulatory compliance for project and revenue allotment.
● Acted as legal adviser for production company (client) regarding media campaign for alcoholic drink brand, which is valued at $56,852,510. Reviewed terms of production agreement and advised on client’s risk exposure in event of defaults. Drafted third-party services agreements necessary for execution of project including set design services contract between client and set designer. Ensured that each third-party services agreement complied with non-disclosure obligations in production agreement.
● Negotiated and drafted 2-year exclusive advertising agreement with annual minimum advertising budget of $87,000 between production company (client) and advertising company.
● Managed monthly portfolio of over 100 commercial transactions including project finance transactions, joint venture arrangements, exclusive product supply agreements, loan transactions, site development agreements etc. Carried out periodic audit of contracts to determine performance level based on set KPIs and prepared contract performance reports for over 150 transactions annually.
● Negotiated, drafted, and reviewed contracts regarding various commercial transactions with minimum contractual value N25,000,000, including vetting other documents including memoranda of understanding (MoUs) or agreements (MoAs), letters of intent, offer letters, and other related documents. Evaluated transaction documentation for level of litigation risk exposure and develop contingency plans to mitigate litigation risk.
● Systemically identified, organised, monitored and improved relationships with external stakeholders, including over 8 regulatory agencies, to ensure successful delivery of any project, programme or activity undertaken by company.
● Provided daily average of 5 legal opinions/advice on legal inquiries or issues of contractual or regulatory nature arising out of interpretation and enforcement of contracts and agreements.
●Acted as company’s compliance officer with annual portfolio of over 150 applications for government permits, licenses and consents for construction, sale and mortgage of company’s properties, including registration of company’s title at lands’ registry.
● Helped company to avoid contractual disputes and financial losses by evaluating company’s business decisions, transactions and operations for risk exposure and advising on mitigation plans.
● Advised on structuring of commercial contracts and ensured that contractual terms are in tandem with company's internal policies and budgeted limits.
● Managed paperwork and legal processes for preparation and execution of agreements including reviewing amendments and variations of contractual terms and ensuring that all amended/varied terms are in best interest of company.
● Generated templates of legal documents to be used by company, and procedures to be followed in negotiating contracts.
● Advised company on diverse areas of its business which includes mobile app development, web design, and software programming.
● Drafted and reviewed legal documents including policy documents for different company clients, software leases, software licensing agreements, legal agreements between company and UI/UX designers and programmers, EULAs, Memorandum of Understanding and other tech-related contracts.
● Ensured that company’s intellectual property rights were registered with relevant agencies and that company complied with Intellectual Property contracts, policies and rights binding on it, its stakeholders and product users.
● Conducted legal research and provided legal advice on several litigation cases pending at High Courts and Court of Appeal.
● Handled litigation cases on labour and land matters which were pending at High Courts and Court of Appeal.
● Drafted court processes and correspondence in respect of assigned cases.
● Prepared and reviewed several legal documents and commercial contracts, employment agreements, loan agreements, lease contracts, and land sale agreements.
● Handled registration of private liability companies and other business entities with Corporate Affairs Commission.
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