Contact Info

Oluseun Awonuga

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Position:

Partner

Expertise:

Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Energy and Extractive Industry.
Infrastructure, Construction and Real Estate.

CAREER / HONORS

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

• Represented interest of a leading OIC both in federal and appellate courts in respect of various multi-billion Naira claims arising from alleged oil spill disputes in the Niger-Delta.

• Represented several high-profile clients in on-going criminal prosecutions by the EFCC, the State and Federal Governments.
• Represented the interests of clients in on-going high value disputes by and against the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).
• Represented, along with a team of lawyers, Nigeria's state-owned Oil corporation in various litigation and arbitral proceedings in respect of contract claims involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Represented, along with a team of lawyers, a respondent in a gubernatorial election petition tribunal in Northern Nigeria up to the Supreme Court.
• Successfully obtained, along with a team of lawyers, a multi-billion naira judgment on behalf of a leading infrastructure management company in a dispute against the world's leading air transport IT and communications specialist.
• Represented, along with a team of lawyers, a major concessionaire in several landmark cases against the federal government and its parastatals in the aviation industry.
• Leads the legal team handling the litigation portfolio of a leading construction company in Nigeria.

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• LL.B (Hons.) University of Ibadan, Oyo State.
• Passed the qualifying professional examination from the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos and admitted to practice Law in Nigeria.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Member, Nigerian Bar Association.
• Member, International Bar Association.
• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom.