Dispute Resolution

When a dispute cannot be avoided, you want advocates who will settle it if settlement serves you and win it if it does not. We appear in courts at every level and in arbitration, and we tell you at the outset what the matter is realistically worth pursuing.

• Commercial litigation. Contract, shareholder, banking, property, employment and tort disputes, from the first demand letter through trial to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

• Arbitration and mediation. Drafting the clause before the dispute exists, and running the process after it does — including emergency relief, interim measures, challenges to awards and enforcement, domestically and across borders.

• Debt and asset recovery. Recovery strategy chosen for return rather than reflex, summary and undefended-list proceedings, enforcement of security, asset tracing, garnishee proceedings and execution.

• Regulatory and administrative challenges. Judicial review of the decisions of ministries, agencies and regulators, and challenges to levies, directives and guidelines made without power.

• White collar crime and investigations. Representation before the EFCC, ICPC and the police, internal investigations, bail applications, asset forfeiture proceedings and trial defence, with attention to the reputational dimension as well as the legal one.

• Election and governance disputes. Pre-election matters, election petitions, appeals and internal party governance disputes, handled to statutory timetables that forgive nothing.

• Human rights and public interest litigation. Enforcement of fundamental rights, including unlawful arrest, detention, search and account restriction.