Every Person Who Walks Through Our Door
Is Important To Us, So They Are All Treated Equally.
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Wright & Co. (Barristers-At-Law, Solicitors of the High Court of Sierra Leone & Legal Consultants) was established in January 1993 by the current Head of the Firm and Managing Partner, Rowland S.V. Wright Esq. The Firm offers a full range of services for its diverse clientele from its offices at Top Floor, No. 8 Pademba Road, Freetown in the Western Area of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
Its broad client base ranges from local businesses to foreign institutions, government agencies and international corporate entities. The Firm offers a broad range of skills and experience predominantly in Corporate/Commercial matters, Financial Institutions, Mining Companies, Trade Disputes, Commercial Properties (acquisition and disposition), Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Liquidations, Construction Contracts, International Trade Agreements employment law and Alternate Dispute Resolution. The firm also has an active litigation practice. The firm has been recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the largest and most prominent law firms in Sierra Leone.
Over the years, Wright & Co. has provided Company Secretarial Services to corporate bodies, institutions and organizations and also serves as retained Solicitors of Banks, Insurance Companies, Airlines, Commercial Houses, Non-Governmental Organizations, Embassies and High Commissions (including the British High Commission, with our Head of Chambers serving as Honorary Legal Adviser to successive British High Commissioners in Sierra Leone for the past 18 years, had served as retained solicitors for the American Embassy in Sierra Leone and the Netherlands Immigration Services).
VISION STATEMENT
“Our vision is to provide reliable legal services to our clients with speed and accuracy. We ensure that the needs of our clients are met with focus on their particular requirements”
OUR BELIEFS
Core Values
Strict continual adherence to our values of integrity, professional ethics and accountability continues to be the driving force of our firm.
Client Focus
We focus on the individual needs and requirements of our clients with a view towards getting a well-defined understanding of same and provide solutions and results that is in line with the position of the law and meets the approval and satisfaction of the clients.
Relationships
Our firm has a strong professional relationships with our clients, service providers and other counterparts. It is entrenched in mutual respect, good faith and trust. The viability of such relationship survives during and after the completion of any services that is being rendered.
Service
Our services are rendered in consonance with the principles and values of integrity, professional ethics and accountability. We pride ourselves by our ability to provide results for our clients to all legal issues through teamwork and excellence.
Honesty & Integrity
The firm has anchored its practise for more than two (2) decades on delivering its services with utmost ethical standards, honesty and integrity. This helps protect us as well as our clients’ position at all times.
OUR CORE COMPETENCIES
*Understanding our clients’ needs and requirements
*Being vast in the laws, regulations, practices and international conventions governing the usual conduct of business of our clients’ activities
*Ensuring that practical solutions are complemented with the legal principles to solve problems of our clients
*Being attentive to detail and proactive to the needs of our clients
*Ensure that our clients are insulated from future risks and liabilities
*Update our clients on any change in the statutes or case laws or policies governing the operations of their industry and advise them on its applicability to their business
*Representing our clients in meetings, dialogues, negotiations, litigation, mediation, arbitration etc.
*Puts primacy to the needs and requirement of our clients.
QUALITY CONTROL
*Our firm prides itself in the provision of services and output that is of superior quality.
*Our primary objective is to provide the correct legal opinions and representation for our clients that will enable them make the appropriate choice among alternatives to deliver maximum satisfaction
*We ensure that all staff members are constantly trained on service delivery and are well-informed on the laws and practices governing the business of our clients.
OUR COMMITMENT
We are committed to assuring the quality of our services to our clients. In addition to the continual, on-going education required to be met for all our professionals, our quality control system includes review by the Partners of all outgoings.
PROFESSIONALISM
*Our firm is one of the leading law firms in Sierra Leone. We are undoubtedly the industry leader in the practise of commercial and finance law. We therefore hire and train the best professionals in the legal field.
*The culture of predominantly dealing with commercial businesses in a flexible manner leads to execution of our duties with the expertise and experience that has been amassed over the years.
*Every client is individually and collectively serviced by our battery of lawyers depending on the needs and circumstances of the situation. Our lawyers are on-call 24/7. Our proclivity for speed and accuracy in the delivery of quality results and solution is what has made us distinct from other law firms in the country.
INDEPENDENCE
*Our firm at all times put our clients first and act in the best interest of our clients without any bias or prejudice and fear of interference, external pressure or political influence.
*Our firm is enshrined on upholding and protecting the rule of law and our primary duty is to our client and no one else. We believe that we must be impartial and remain credible in all circumstances.
*We maintain loyalty and fidelity to our clients at all times. However, we ensure that our professional obligation to execute our services with integrity as lawyers is balanced against the need to protect the interest of our client.
*Our lawyers are all regulated by the General legal Council which has independence as part of its code of conduct and professional ethics.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Legal professional privilege is at the heart of the legal profession generally. We maintain very rigid internal policies regarding the confidentiality of client information, which cut across all members of staff. The trust that is bestowed upon us by our clients and even potential clients necessitates us to ensure that they are always assured of confidentiality.
Specifically, we ensure that the protection of confidential information relates to ALL or ANY information received from our clients. We maintain an obligation not to disclose or misuse the information. When it is discovered that an information of our client is in the public domain, we immediately inform them accordingly.
This internal principle of robust confidentiality is why the firm has been able to attract and maintain high profile clients for the past 25 years.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
*We have a wide range of clientele most of whose business model are similar and/or related. In the premise, it remains our duty to identify any actual or potential conflict of interest. Whenever there are issues of conflict (whether actual or otherwise), we immediately inform the clients involved with a view towards informing them of the conflict and propose that new solicitors are contracted for that particular work. Further, the affected clients may elect to expressly waive the conflict in writing. Where this is the case, a ‘Chinese wall’ doctrine is implemented to avoid any prejudice to the clients involved.
*It is our principle that our retained clients take precedence over other clients in the event of conflict.
*We further ensure that a conflict check is conducted before a new engagement is accepted and in the event of a conflict, the client is immediately notified.
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Our Firm has extensive experience with a total of six (6) leading commercial banks in Sierra Leone, four (4) of which are current clients, three (3) of whom we act as retained solicitors for. We are also retained solicitors for two (2) leading insurance companies in Sierra Leone. Generally our firm is retained by several corporate clients and actively engaged in the provision of services to corporate entities including but not limited to proffering legal opinions, incorporation of companies, insolvency proceedings, liquidations, conducting due diligence exercises, drafting and reviewing of contracts, mergers and acquisitions mortgages, debentures and other legal instruments etc.
Our firm has been directly involved in the incorporation, registration and setting up of numerous companies inclusive of two (2) leading commercial banks in Sierra Leone.
Between 2015 and 2017, our firm was directly involved in the divestiture process of one (1) of the commercial banks in Sierra Leone.
Currently our firm is acting for a potential buyer of a National Telecommunications Company under the Sierra Leone Government’s divestiture program.
Our firm advises on the legal aspect of the method and structure of divestment, evaluating expression of interests, carrying out due diligence exercises, review and drafting of all transaction documents etc. Our Patricia Fomba (Mrs.) ensures regulatory compliance with the Central Bank and other regulatory authorities including the Corporate Affairs Commission
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Our Anrité Thompson is currently engaged in the voluntary winding-up process of a mining company in Sierra Leone.
Our Anrité Thompson Esq. is currently engaged serving as legal adviser to the advisory committee on the privatization of the three (3) government parastatals and he oversees the drafting and review of contractual documents, advise on legal and regulatory requirements and ensures adherence to laws and regulations.
Our Rowland Wright Esq. jointly acted with a leading chartered accountant in the liquidation of one of the leading telecommunications companies in Sierra Leone which said exercise was completed in 2018.
In June of 2017, Rowland Wright was appointed as Legal Adviser to the Receiver of Commerce and Mortgage Bank (formerly known as HFC Mortgage and Savings (SL) PLC) and Sierra Leone Commercial Bank with a mandate to recover the indebtedness of Premier Investment (SL) Limited.
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Our Rowland Wright Esq. was a consultant for the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), The United States of America’s Overseas Private Investment Cooperation (OPIC), solicitor for OPIC on the restart of the financing of the mining sector in Sierra Leone, consultant to the World Bank on several projects including Doing Business in Sierra Leone and Administrative Barriers to Trade in Sierra Leone and Lead Contributor to the World Bank compendium on Doing Business in Sierra Leone.
He also served as the drafter of the proposed legislation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Sierra Leone and is currently a board member of an insurance company and the chairman of the board of directors of a commercial bank in Sierra Leone. He is also a lecturer of banking law and international trade law at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.
In March of 2014, Rowland Wright was appointed as Legal Adviser to the Receiver of Comium (SL) Limited (an International Mobile Phone Service Provider) with a mandate to re-schedule its indebtedness, restructure the Company and to endeavour to sell it as a going concern.
In December 2013, Rowland Wright was contracted as consultant by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security after extensive consultations to develop a draft bill of Wetlands Conservation for Sierra Leone.
In February 2013, Rowland Wright was contracted as consultant by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security to primarily carry out a comprehensive review of two existing statutes to wit; the Forestry Act of 1988 an the Wildlife Conservation Act of 1972 and to prepare new replacement bills for enactment.
In 2013, Rowland Wright was appointed consultant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sierra Leone, his brief was to review and redraft the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sierra Leone Act of Parliament 2008 and to develop a regulatory framework/code of conduct for the profession.
In 2012, Rowland Wright was appointed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry as consultant to review the Cooperatives Act of Sierra Leone and to draft proposed new bill and regulatory framework.
In 2007, appointed the implementing partner with the firm Emerging Markets Economies of London by the British Government’s Department for International Development, for the implementation of the “Private Sector Development Project for Sierra Leone” under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone, with a mandate to assist the Ministry with appraising and re-structuring the Trade and Investment regimes, environment and legislative/regulatory framework thereto.
Rowland Wright was appointed International Consultant in November 2005 to the Government of the Republic of the Gambia through its Capacity Building Economic Management Project (CBEMP) for the10 year Development Strategy for the Justice Sector and for the Legal Sector Reform Programme in the Gambia.
Rowland Wright acted for TOTAL in Sierra Leone in the acquisition of Mobil Petroleum in Sierra Leone, in conjunction with other acquisitions in West Africa. Sept/Oct. 2005.
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The Client has the option of choosing for us to bill by a ball pack fee estimated figure which would be capped at a particular amount for all the services to be rendered. Therefore, payment will not exceed the estimated capped figure.
Alternatively, we can bill on an hourly basis based on the number of lawyers involved in the work that is being done and the number of billable hours that is put in by each lawyer in the execution of the task involved.
#8 Pademba Road,
Freetown, Sierra Leone
+232-76-104-071