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. Its lawyers work in eight broad practice groups: finance, projects, corpo- rate, dispute resolution, tax, energy, commerce, and the new economy. The 23-lawyer dispute resolution work group is led by two senior ad- vocates (Nigeria’s equivalent of the UK’s King’s Counsel) and includes three more partners each with more than 15 years’ experience in dispute resolution work. The firm has over 250 active
cases in its dispute resolution portfolio. The team have experience and expertise in virtually every significant forum (including trial and ap- pellate courts, administrative tribunals and ar- bitration), sector of the economy, and practice area. With offices in Lagos and Abuja, G. Elias is the sole Nigerian member of Multilaw, a leading global alliance of independent law firms in over 90 countries worldwide. Justice Uka-Ofor is an associate in G. Elias’s dispute resolution team. Among other matters, he is part of the team representing Nigeria’s biggest telecommunications company in four related intellectual property infringement suits. in several complex dispute resolution matters. She is an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators. She 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. Ayomide Abiodun is an associate in G. Elias’s dispute resolution team. She is involved
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. He successfully defended one of the world’s largest brand development companies in a NGN1.3 billion product-liability claim at the High Court of Akwa Ibom State. Abubakar is a Commonwealth Professional Fellow and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).
Larry Nkwor is an 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 represented a top multilateral trade finance institution in ongoing efforts to enforce an English judgment worth USD20 million in Nigeria.
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