Establishment
The Firm.
From the Founder's Desk.
Encore Lex Legal Experts was built for creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, brands, and businesses navigating a fast-changing world where creativity, culture, technology, and commerce constantly intersect.
We are a modern law firm providing strategic legal support across entertainment, media, intellectual property, digital business, technology, sports, branding, dispute resolution, and commercial advisory.
At Encore Lex, we believe legal protection should not feel intimidating or outdated. It should feel accessible, intentional, professional, and aligned with the realities of today’s creative and digital economy.
Our approach combines legal intelligence with cultural understanding, helping clients protect their ideas, structure their businesses, negotiate smarter deals, manage risks, resolve disputes, and grow confidently across Nigeria and global markets.
We are building more than a law firm.
We are building a modern legal experience.
Abasiifreke Fabian
Founding Partner
Who We Are
We serve the entertainment, media, and digital economy with decisive, commercially intelligent, and enforcement-backed legal services. Our focus is protection, enforcement, and strategic deal execution.
We step into complex situations and deliver outcomes, from recovering funds in disputed transactions to structuring deals, resolving conflicts through mediation, and protecting clients before problems grow.
Protection First
We identify risks before they become problems and structure opportunities before they are signed.
Deal Intelligence
We focus on what preserves revenue, ownership, and long-term positioning.
Enforcement
From disputes to recovery, we act with authority, precision, and intent.
Growth Ready
Legal structures that support scale, stability, and commercial momentum.
Not Just a Conventional Law Practice.
Encore Lex Legal Experts is a premium partnership law firm built for serious work, serious clients, and serious results. We operate at the intersection of law, entertainment, and commerce, delivering practical solutions that protect value and accelerate growth.
We understand that the modern creative space is high-risk. From talents signing contracts without clarity to brands moving without proper legal structure we step in to provide decisive, commercially intelligent legal services.
Fast Service
Responsive delivery tailored to the speed of digital industries.
Deal Insight
Aggressive negotiation tactics to secure favorable terms.
Global Reach
Expanding impact across Africa and international transactions.
The Vision
"To build a leading, globally recognized legal practice that sets the standard for excellence in Africa and beyond."
Our Core Value
"Law that deserves a repeat."
Selected Matters
Advised and represented clients across the entertainment, media, technology, corporate, and commercial sectors on a broad range of transactional, advisory, governance, and dispute-resolution matters.
Encore have advice Multiple movie producers on investor relations and financing arrangements,
identified material legal and commercial risks in an existing investment structure, and
successfully negotiated revised timelines and stakeholder accommodations to enable business
continuity, production stability, and future growth.
We have Structured and reorganized a film production company to enhance investment
readiness, strengthen corporate governance, streamline operational processes, and improve its
attractiveness to investors, financiers, distributors, and strategic partners.
Encore has given multiple Advise to investors in a commercial venture on investment
structuring, shareholder rights, and corporate governance matters, conducted legal due
diligence and restructuring exercises that secured enhanced governance protections and
safeguarded the investor’s strategic interests within the company.
We have Multiple Assisted a social media influencers and content creators in resolving a
complex contractual dispute arising from creative production services, providing strategic legal
advice on contractual obligations, financial exposure, and commercial risk management,
leading to an amicable resolution.
Encore have successfully Structured multiple record labels, talent management companies,
and creative enterprises, developing comprehensive legal frameworks covering corporate
governance, intellectual property ownership, artist relations, revenue-sharing arrangements,
licensing, and commercial operations.
We have also Advised creators, entertainers, athletes, influencers, and entrepreneurs on
business structuring and commercialization strategies, transforming informal ventures into
legally compliant, scalable, and investment-ready enterprises.
We also successfully Assisted clients in securing and protecting intellectual property rights,
including copyrights, trademarks, branding assets, digital content, and proprietary creative
works, while developing enforcement and commercialization strategies to maximize asset
value.
We have drafted, reviewed, and negotiated a broad range of entertainment and media
agreements, including artist management agreements, recording contracts, production
agreements, endorsement arrangements, sponsorship agreements, licensing agreements,
distribution contracts, and content creation agreements.
Advised entertainment, media, and technology professionals on commercial transactions,
contractual negotiations, regulatory compliance, and legal risk management across various
creative and digital projects.
Provided strategic legal support in sensitive disputes involving contractual breaches,
intellectual property claims, partnership disagreements, talent-management conflicts, and
commercial disputes, assisting clients in achieving commercially viable resolutions while
preserving key business relationships.
Conducted legal due diligence and risk assessments for investors, entrepreneurs, and business
owners in connection with proposed investments, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and
business expansion initiatives.
Supported startups, growth-stage companies, and founder-led businesses with corporate
structuring, governance frameworks, shareholder arrangements, compliance programmes, and
legal documentation designed to facilitate sustainable growth and operational efficiency.
Advised clients on shareholder relations, founders' arrangements, equity allocation, succession
planning, and corporate governance matters, helping mitigate disputes and strengthen long
term business stability.
Assisted businesses in developing and implementing legal compliance frameworks, internal
policies, and contractual systems aimed at reducing operational risks and enhancing regulatory
compliance.
Advised on brand protection, reputation management, and digital risk issues, including online
content disputes, unauthorized use of intellectual property, and protection of commercial
goodwill.
We have successfully represented clients in pre-dispute negotiations and settlement
discussions, helping avoid costly litigation through strategic engagement, commercial
negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Disclaimer:
The matters highlighted above are representative of the firm's experience and
capabilities. Matters have been anonymised to preserve client confidentiality and do not
necessarily represent all engagements undertaken by the firm.