Areas of expertise
Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Our lawyers are qualified arbitrators and mediators and highly experienced in all aspects of ADR including conciliation and mediation.
Aviation & Transport Law
We understand the critical opportunities and, post-Covid 19, opportunities, safe aviation affords the global economy not least by enhancing inter-continental, regional and domestic trade links, boosting tourism and enhancing national tax revenues.
Banking
The overriding necessity to safeguard depositorsâ funds implicates the continuing imperative for robust risk management, governance and regulatory controls. This philosophy underpins our advice to clients in seeking to resolve any emerging disputes.
Commercial & Corporate Law
The Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 largely governs this function and it remains a core competence. We advise on arbitration, business formation, insolvency and recovery and all aspects of company law.
Constitutional Law & Judicial Review Proceedings
We offer advice on statutory construction, human rights breaches, and challenging procedural irregularities by public agencies
Digital Law & Forensics
We assist clients on digital and information law including offering advice under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Passing Off torts and Intellectual Property breaches.
Publications
The following publications are available upon inquiry:
Circumstances of Arrest of Ocean-Going Vessels in Nigeria (International Bar Association: Maritime and Transport Law Journal, Volume 10, Number 2, October 2014);
Traversing the Law and Nigeriaâs Banking Sector Strategic Risk Management (The Nigerian Bank Director, Publication of the Bank Directorsâ Association of Nigeria, 3rd Edition);
Legal Considerations in Nigerian Banking (International Bar Association: Banking Law Journal, Volume 20, Number 1, July 2013);
Regulating Commercial Arbitration in Nigeria: An Illogicality? (Tribune Law, The Nigerian Tribune, 3 June 2013);
Nigeriaâs Competitive Advantage from a Maritime Law Perspective (International Bar Association: Maritime and Transport Law Journal, Volume 9, Number 1, May 2013;
Unbundling Executive Stress (The Nigerian Bank Director, Publication of the Bank Directorsâ Association of Nigeria, 4th Edition);
First Principles
Our law practice advises governments, listed firms on the FTSE 100, quoted companies on the Nigeria Stock Exchange, leading global industry participants and private clients.
Careers
Clientsâ heightened demands in the 21st Century, the complexities of globalisation, the enactment of new laws and regulations, plus, the extra-territoriality thereof, imposes on our counsel the obligations to be intellectually agile.