Litigation / Arbitration
Disputes are an unhappy facet of business life. Even when you win, they can be costly, time-consuming, and distracting from your business objectives and daily operations.
Our goal is to reduce these burdens by assembling a team of legal experts and skilled advocates who understand your interests inside out – not only in the dispute, but beyond it – and are committed to obtaining the best possible results, whether by alternative dispute resolution methods, formal arbitration, or, if necessary, full litigation.
Our leading services:
- Representation in trial and appellate courts and tribunals throughout Nigeria
- Representation in both domestic and international arbitration
- A team of legal experts and skilled litigators assembled to fit with each client’s industry or business sector and the nature of the issues at stake
- Proactive dispute resolution management to anticipate and, when possible, avoid unnecessary delays or procedural complications
- A “litigator’s perspective” to support our advice about non-contentious matters, by pointing out the possible obstacles and pitfalls and helping our clients design
dispute-avoidance strategies
Examples of the value we’ve delivered for clients:
- Successfully prosecuted a suit at the Federal High Court in which demand notices issued by the Rivers State Ministry for Commerce & Industry against two telecommunications infrastructure service provider companies for payments in excess of N2 billion as business registration/renewal of business places and penalty for non-compliance were declared illegal
- Successfully defended a claim in excess of N3.9 billion in a complex EPC contract arbitration dispute
- Successfully defended a claim of circa $100 million in a breach of contract arbitration dispute on behalf of a major loC
- Successfully defended a major UK-based law firm and two of its partners in multiple suits against them in Nigeria
- Successfully defended a multinational oil company in a suit filed by members of a host community regarding royalties and rental payments allegedly owed to them from our client’s oil exploration
- Successfully secured the dismissal of a winding-up petition against a leading Indigenous oil company
- Successfully secured dismissal of several suits against our clients-major international oil companies – by their host communities
- Successfully defended several major oil companies in multiple lawsuits for claims arising from oil spills in various communities in the Niger Delta region
- Successfully defended several clients operating in different sectors of the economy against wrongful dismissal/termination claims by former employees
- Successfully prosecuted and/or defended corporate and individual clients in suits bordering on complex contract disputes, libel and torts, at both trial and appellate courts
