NIGERIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Adedoyin Afun and Michael Abiiba, Bloomfield LP
Bloomfield LP is a specialist commercial and dispute resolution law firm that operates out of Lagos and other littoral Nigerian cities, including Port Harcourt and Warri. The firm offers comprehensive legal solu - tions to meet clients’ expectations. Bloomfield’s law - yers include leading shipping experts (in contentious and non-contentious as well as dry and wet shipping matters) who continue to influence the industry and shipping jurisprudence in Nigeria. The firm’s clientele spans ship-owners, charterers, managers, shipyards, financiers, brokers, insurers (including P&I members
of the International Group of Protection and Indem - nity Clubs (IGP&I), as well as fixed-premium marine insurers), oil-servicing companies, port and terminal operators/promoters, petroleum marketing and dis - tribution companies and commodity trading houses. Bloomfield’s lawyers have contributed to, or au - thored, leading texts within many key sectors, and are often called upon to attend Nigerian and inter - national seminars/workshops and to serve as public and private-sector officeholders, advisers and con - sultants.
Authors
Adedoyin Afun is a partner at Bloomfield LP and a thought leader on Nigerian shipping laws and practice. He has authored articles and papers in both Nigerian and international publications. He has
Michael Abiiba is a new partner at Bloomfield LP. He specialises in dispute resolution and shipping matters and has appeared in landmark proceedings before superior courts, and domestic and
advised extensively on issues in the integrated shipping/oil services sectors, including the structure/ implementation of complex, multimillion-dollar transactions and projects, registration of ships, mortgages and other interests, port concessions, corporate restructuring, maritime claims/casualties, litigation, arbitration, and regulatory compliance. Adedoyin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria. He was previously chairperson of the Maritime Committee Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association, publicity secretary of the Nigerian Maritime Law Association, and an officer at the Maritime and Transport Law Committee of the International Bar Association.
international dispute resolution tribunals. He represents local and international clients, government departments and non-governmental organisations. Michael played a key role in the firm’s successful representation of Sea Trucks Group Limited (in liquidation) in relation to the restructuring of its operations, including the repossession of vessels chartered in Nigeria and the amicable resolution of protracted litigation before the superior and appellate courts in Nigeria. This matter remains the largest Nigerian shipping and oil services dispute to date. Michael is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Nigerian Maritime Law Association, among other professional affiliations.
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