
Maryam Uwais MFR
Established in 2003, Wali-Uwais & Co. is a leading full service law firm within the capital city, Abuja – Nigeria. The Firm is committed to providing a wide variety of legal consultancy, corporate & commercial and litigation services. Our diverse skills, a combined leadership of 30 years practice experience, as well as bias towards project finance, corporate & commercial practice gives us the capacity to deliver the legal, regulatory and advisory services as required by our Clients’.
Our Firm has over the years produced a unique and formidable blend of expertise, experience, dynamism and innovation in the provision of proactive and qualitative legal services, founded on integrity and professionalism.
Our Firm is engaged in core corporate and commercial practice, and has extensive experience and knowledge in diverse areas of the law, including Project Finance & Infrastructure Development, Corporate Finance, Capital Market Operations, Company and Commercial Law, Banking, Islamic Banking and Finance, Insurance, Energy, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Privatisation, Negotiating Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Pensions law, Human Rights and Family law, as well as Environmental Law.
Our Team comprises of lawyers and draftsmen with a combined experience of over 90 years who are versed in infrastructure finance, Public Private Partnerships practice, the legal and business issues of long term financing as well as the intricacies of a variety of public and private sector driven transactions. We are commercially minded individuals with a proven record of successes with transactions, successful team building and communication with clients. Ours is a group of lawyers who are young, vibrant and creative in finding commercial solutions to resolving legal problems. We are adept at drafting, engrossment, vetting and interpretation of business documents, International Contracts and Agreements, Research and are systematically analytical in our approach to legal work.