The team understands complex cases and strive to ensure that disputes are settled on terms favorable to our clients. We are always seeking to adopt an approach that will achieve the aims of our clients in a practical and cost-effective way. With the team comprising of experienced lawyers that are skillful in the litigation, arbitration and mediation, the department has grown to be a core practice of the firm. With an in-depth knowledge of the corporate and commercial legal practice, the team understands that clients’ dispute must be viewed from a business angle and settlement of such disputes must be tied to commercial efficacies and profitability of the clients business.   

The firm’s dispute resolution team provides a full complement of services to both local and international clients across all our practice areas. Such services include legal representation before courts and tribunals in Nigeria, trademark opposition, arbitration, mediation, company and shareholders’ disputes, real estate and property disputes, matrimonial disputes, class actions,  due diligence reviews, insolvency, debt recovery & asset tracing, labour and employment disputes, anti-counterfeiting tortious claims and intellectual Property Litigation portfolio audits, acting as counsel in court- regulated transactions and the drafting and review of local and cross border transaction agreements.

Members of the dispute resolution team have also written extensively on corporate and commercial litigation and mediation issues as well as several papers on the Nigerian litigation system.