Member Profile

Olaniwun Ajayi LP is a leading commercial law firm with world class delivery and standards of effectiveness in legal services. We are consistently ranked among the top law firms in Africa, and our Entertainment, Leisure and Media team offers extensive services across all commercial aspects of Entertainment and Media Law; key to which are contracts, financing, intellectual property and dispute resolution, all relevant to music, film, television, fashion and other aspects of the creative arts.

Our Entertainment, Leisure and Media Practice group is made up of a multi-disciplinary team of specialist corporate, commercial, intellectual property and litigation lawyers with an in-depth understanding of the entertainment, sports and leisure sectors in Nigeria. Our team is commercially astute, efficient and committed to providing creative and solution-oriented legal advice to clients.

Our Entertainment, Leisure and Media Practice group is made up of a multi-disciplinary team of specialist corporate, commercial, intellectual property and litigation lawyers with an in-depth understanding of the entertainment, sports and leisure sectors in Nigeria. Our team is commercially astute, efficient and committed to providing creative and solution-oriented legal advice to clients.

Over the years, Olaniwun Ajayi LP has built alliances with magic and silver circle law firms in UK and US which we can draw on to provide our clients with an international outlook to the legal advice that we provide. The Firm is also frequently called on to provide advice on Nigerian law issues that arise on international transactions.

• Legal advisory and company secretarial services to a sports marketing, management and consultancy company

• Legal consultants in the production of a television series in Nigeria

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a record financing agreement with a leading RnB artiste

• Reviewing and negotiating an international production agreement on behalf of a Nigerian film production company

• Individual artistes and performers in the film and music industries

• Film production companies including individual directors and producers

• Record label companies

• Entertainment companies

• Sports managers and Management Companies

• Investors

Some of the articles published by lawyers in the Entertainment, Leisure & Media Practice team include:

• Image Rights: Charting New Paths

• Data Protection: Lessons from the Safe Harbour Ruling

• Cybersquatting under Nigerian Law