Learn More Navigate Africa's regulatory landscape with clarity and confidence Lex Economicus is a Nigerian law firm with a pan-African focus, specialising in competition law, consumer protection, digital markets regulation and international trade law. Our team possesses over 65 years of combined experience and deep, firsthand insight into Africa's evolving legal landscape.
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Pan-African Legal & regulatory advisory

We deliver evidence-based legal and policy advisory in competition law, consumer protection, digital markets, and international trade across Africa
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65+ years of combined experience

Our team members have over 65 years of combined background knowledge and experience. We combine expertise with exceptional care
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Founder's Statement

My engagement with competition law, consumer protection law, digital markets regulation, and international trade law began not with the creation of a firm, but with sustained work on how markets function, how power is exercised within them, and how legal and regulatory choices shape economic outcomes in Africa.

Over the past decade, my professional work has involved close collaboration with governments, regional institutions, and regulatory authorities, contributing to the development of legal frameworks, enforcement strategies, and institutional capacity across national and regional markets. This experience has consistently underscored the distinctive context in which African markets operate—marked by concentration, developmental objectives, state participation, and the growing importance of digital and cross-border commerce.

These realities demand more than formal rules. They require regulatory approaches grounded in economic reasoning, institutional awareness, and an appreciation of how law influences market behaviour and commercial incentives.

Lex Economicus Advisory is the institutional expression of that insight.

The firm provides specialised advisory services in competition law, consumer protection, digital markets, and trade, serving public institutions and businesses alike. It supports regulators in designing coherent, enforceable frameworks, while assisting market participants to navigate regulatory obligations, manage risk, and engage constructively with competition regimes.

Lex Economicus is not a departure from my earlier work. It is its logical continuation—focused on shaping markets that are competitive, innovative, and fair, in line with Africa’s evolving economic realities.

Leonard Otuonye Ugbajah

Principal Partner

Expertise That Matters

Our Practice Areas

Our practice areas encompass Competition & Consumer Protection Law (CCPL), Digital Markets & Platform Regulation (DMPR), International & Regional Trade Law (IRTL), and Regulatory & Institutional Support (RIS) across three key areas of practice. We advise businesses, individuals and the public sector, delivering strategic legal solutions across sectors, ensuring compliance, managing regulatory risks, and seizing opportunities within domestic and international markets.

Competition & Consumer Protection Law

We provide strategic advisory, regulatory representation, and compliance support within competition and consumer-protection regimes.

Digital Markets & Platform Regulation

We help clients navigate the emerging legal and policy frameworks for digital markets regulation, whether as businesses/business associations, regulators, policymakers…

International & Regional Trade Law

We help clients understand, implement, and leverage Africa’s growing network of trade agreements for enhanced market access and protection from…

Regulatory & Institutional Support

We assist with legislative drafting, market studies, enforcement strategy, and capacity building for regulatory bodies.
Experienced. Strategic. Trusted.

Our Approach

We combine legal precision with economic insight to deliver solutions that are both practical and transformative.

Understanding the client’s need and context

We take time to understand the client’s objectives, sector, and regulatory environment.

Screen for conflict of interest

We ensure independence, integrity, and professional responsibility.

Undertake evidence-based legal and policy analysis.

We combine legal analysis with economic and policy assessment.

Design and deploy a tailored solution.

We design and deploy solutions aligned with client needs and regulatory realities.

Curate knowledge and lessons learnt

We capture lessons learned to strengthen client outcomes and institutional memory.
Experienced. Strategic. Trusted.

Meet Our Team

We are a multidisciplinary team of experienced legal and policy professionals united by excellence, integrity, and a shared commitment to advancing fair and competitive markets.

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Years of combined team experience

Our team brings decades of seasoned insight, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of excellence, delivering thoughtful, strategic, and reliable legal solutions to even the most complex regulatory and commercial challenges.

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