Our clients come from diverse industries and engage in several areas of activity, including start-up enterprises to energy producers and major contractors. Our Legal Practitioners provide real solutions to business clients across the West African region, on corporate transactions from negotiations through to the structuring of the transactions and its implementation. Our clients can receive advice on company registration, joint venture partnerships, directors’ duties, shareholder rights, corporate recovery & restructuring and regulatory compliance.

We advise in all aspects of commercial transactions. We know and understand commercial agreements and transactions. We advise on simple transactions to the more complex structures such as joint-venture agreements and their connected understandings required in the oil upstream industry. Our practice objective at all times is to let you manage your business and control your risks.

We understand that while contracts can be looked at in their own right, they often require us to look at them within the overall business objectives of our clients. Our clients include oil producers, offshore contractors, port operators, commodity traders, logistics managers, mining service providers, manufacturing as well as engineering and power generation companies. Our commercial advisory services include advice on financing structures, procurement arrangements, employment and labour issues, immigration, asset leases and management and social impact and responsibility.

Our Tax Consultants do not compromise the quality of audit service because they understand that clients rely on their report to make economic decisions. Our tax accountants and chartered accountants provide industry focused audit and assurance, financial consultancy, due diligence, accounting treatment, budgeting and planning and tax solutions.  Our Tax Consultants aim to help client minimise their tax obligations and implications in compliance with all applicable local and international rules and regulations, and follow and comply with the International Standards of Auditing and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Our ship brokers combine a wealth of professionalism and experience to offer a broad spectrum of ship brokerage services relating to chartering, operations and demurrage and are active in every aspect of the ship business including spot and period Tanker Chartering, Dry Cargo Period Chartering, Ship Sale and Purchase, New Buildings, Ship Recycling, Offshore and Ship Management facilities. General market information and analysis will be provided on regular basis and special requirements for information can be handled as well upon request.

All consultants are ICS certified brokers and affiliated with ship owners, charterers, traders, international brokers and yards. In addition to general brokerage services, we can assist with preparing tailored reports, sourcing vessels, facilitating ship registration, managing vessel employment, technical maintenance and crewing requirements.

Our investment advisors have several years’ experience in project finance with a prime focus on debt and equity capital raising for energy infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, agribusiness and trade finance opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. OS and its finance partners leverage its experience and relationships in the global investment banking and private equity, to provide bespoke financing opportunities. OS and its finance partners specialise and arrange asset finance, bilateral commercial loans and levy-backed receivables lending to Government institutions and currency liquidity solutions for central banks. For private clients, we are able to arrange senior and junior debt, equity, as well as long-term project finance for infrastructure transactions.