NIGERIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Abubakar Anafi, Larry Nkwor, Justice Uka-Ofor and Ayomide Abiodun, G Elias
G Elias was founded in 1994 and is a premier law firm in Nigeria with offices in Lagos and Abuja. Its lawyers work in eight broad practice groups: finance, projects, corporate, dispute resolution, tax, energy, commerce, and the new economy. The 30-lawyer dispute resolution group is led by two senior advo- cates (Nigeria’s equivalent of the UK’s King’s Coun- sel) and includes three more partners, each with more than 16 years’ experience in dispute resolution work.
The firm has over 250 active cases in its dispute reso- lution portfolio. The team has experience and exper- tise in virtually every significant forum (including trial and appellate courts, administrative tribunals and ar- bitration), sector of the economy, and practice area. G Elias is also the sole Nigerian member of Multilaw, a leading global alliance of independent law firms in over 90 countries worldwide.
Authors
Abubakar Anafi is a partner in G Elias’s dispute resolution team. He has advised and represented clients in prominent cases in various courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Abubakar is a
Justice Uka-Ofor is an associate in G Elias’s dispute resolution team. Among other matters he is involved in, he is part of the team representing Nigeria’s biggest telecommunications company in four related intellectual property infringement suits. Ayomide Abiodun is an associate in G Elias’s dispute resolution team. She is involved in several complex dispute resolution matters. She is an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators. She
Commonwealth Professional Fellow, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), a Fellow of the Institute of Construction Industry Arbitrators and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
Larry Nkwor is a senior associate in G Elias’s dispute resolution team. He is involved in several high-profile matters and has litigated at all levels of the Nigerian court system. He was part of the team that successfully
is a member of the team that is currently representing a directorate of the federal government in a series of nine suits to recover more than NGN50 billion in pension legacy funds from underwriters.
represented a top multilateral trade finance institution in ongoing efforts to enforce an English judgment worth USD20 million in Nigeria.
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