Founded in 1996, Jackson, Etti & Edu (JEE) celebrates 30 years of practice in 2026. JEE is an award-winning, full-service law firm with a sector focus. Our legal teams stand at the nexus of innovation and opportunity unleashed by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTA), and our experience, knowledge and expertise can steer your organisation to success.

Proudly Nigerian and resolutely pan-African, we are dedicated to serving the continued growth of private and public-sector economic development in the region. We have long championed Africa's dynamic and innovative people, ideas, capital, and products.

Our team's in-depth legal, geopolitical and industry knowledge; "client-centricity"; operational excellence; and holistic approach have won critical acclaim from our many and wide-ranging clients across 35 jurisdictions, 6 sectors, and 11 practice areas. We have a strong presence in Nigeria, with three fully staffed, strategically located offices: two in Lagos, Nigeria's corporate and financial center (Victoria Island Ikeja), and one in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. We also cover the rest of Africa from our conveniently situated associate offices in Accra, Ghana; Harare, Zimbabwe; and Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Our legal teams are strategically located in every African country of business interest, making Jackson, Etti & Edu the go-to firm for all your African legal needs. Unlike other law firms, we think sector first, organising ourselves around the current affairs and future challenges of the industries we serve. JEE focuses on 6 key sectors: Energy & Infrastructure, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Financial Services, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Public Sector, and Technology, Media & Entertainment.

We have earned a reputation for understanding your business and for delivering innovative services that anticipate everything your business might require. Our sector approach means that JEE's lawyers offer both legal and commercial expertise; clients work with advisors who are fully focused on their sector, intimately understand the challenges they face, and are completely attuned to their needs. This is delivered across eleven practice areas: Banking & Finance Brand Protection, Commercial Intellectual Property & Data, Corporate Commercial & General Legal Advisory, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Energy & Natural Resources, Immigration Advisory & Private Client Services, Intellectual Property, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, and Regulatory & Compliance.

Our clientele includes regional and international blue-chip institutions and organisations, from boutique private firms to multinationals and global and African conglomerates. We have advised the United Nations Development Programme on patents and trademarks, the Export-Import Bank of India and Africa Finance Corporation on major financing facilities, and represented Toyota Motor Corporation, Nokia and Eli Lilly in intellectual property enforcement litigation, among many other clients across the public and private sectors.

Jackson, Etti & Edu is an award-winning legal firm recognised in many independent legal directories across the globe, including as a Top Tier Law Firm by Chambers Global and IFLR1000, and Nigeria Firm of the Year and Africa Firm of the Year at the MIP EMEA Awards.