AVIATION DISPUTE
Aviation dispute resolution is an integral part of our local aviation practice. We deliver accurate, commercial and realistic advice on contentious matters to all of our industry clients whether they are airlines, banks, lessors, airports or underwriters. We understand the pressures and commercial objectives facing the industry and how to negotiate the best possible outcome in all related disputes.
CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING DISPUTES
Dispute resolution and litigation forms an integral part of our global construction and engineering practice, providing an invaluable service to clients where projects have led to potentially complex and sensitive disputes. Our team of construction dispute resolution lawyers works closely with our transactional team to provide tailored advice on a range of high-profile cases.
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE
Our corporate disputes lawyers advise multi-national and domestic corporate clients on the full spectrum of complex contentious corporate and commercial matters. The team has extensive experience of litigation and the court systems in every region in which we operate as well as a strong international arbitration team. Where appropriate we use tools other than litigation or arbitration (such as international arbitration, mediation and expert determination) to resolve disputes in a way that supports the strategic and commercial objectives of our clients.
From creative approaches to settlement agreements to a strong trial capability, where dispute resolution is required anywhere across our global network you will find us to be effective, robust, decisive and determined. We also regularly provide risk management advice to pre-empt litigation and minimise the risk of disputes arising and/or becoming entrenched in litigation or arbitration.
DISPUTES AND RECOVERY OF ASSETS
Our team are well trained with vast experience in litigation, arbitration, asset tracing and white collar crime. We handle complex, large scale, multi-jurisdictional frauds and are involved in a number of current major cases. Clients rely on our risk and reputational management advice; fraud victims are reassured by our strategies for investigation, asset tracing and recovery. Claimants and defendants seek our skill-set in the protection of assets across the continent.
We have particular experience in relation to asset preservation and enforcement matters. We have achieved substantial recoveries by devising strategies to obtain powers over the assets of debtor defendants in even the most challenging of jurisdictions. In particular, we have advised extensively on strategies for asset tracing and recovery, freezing orders, attachment orders and execution steps.
INSOLVENCY DISPUTES
Our contentious insolvency lawyers are a vital part of our highly rated local restructuring and insolvency group. We regularly advise insolvency office holders, corporate creditors, trustees, financial institutions, distressed companies, secured creditors, and company directors across our key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES
Dispute resolution and litigation is central to our intellectual property practice. In the courtroom, and using various alternative dispute resolution techniques, we advise leading corporations and financial institutions on some of their most strategically and commercially important cases.
MARINE CASUALTY
We are one of the few global legal practices able to provide all the services needed by all sectors of the shipping industry including ship owners, operators and managers, hull, cargo and liability insurers, oil majors and offshore contracting companies. Shipping has been at the core of our practice since inception. We are one of Nigeria’s viable transport practices and have global reach. Renowned for our experience in the passenger and cruise ship market, our knowledge of marine crisis management also extends to ferries, containerships, tankers and dry cargo ships, where we have been lead advisers in numerous casualties.