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Nottinghill Chambers

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Strategic Counsel. Practical Solutions.Lasting Impact.

We deliver forward-thinking legal advice that helps individuals and organisations navigate complexity, mitigate risk, and seize opportunity.

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2006

Founded, 16 May

13

Areas of practice

09

Counsel and consultants

17

Institutional clients

What we are instructed on

01Civil litigation and election petitionsContested civil claims, and the election petitions that have to be won inside a statutory clock.02Criminal litigation and advocacyDefence work at trial and on appeal, including economic crime and asset-forfeiture proceedings.03Arbitration and alternative dispute resolutionInstitutional and ad hoc arbitration, mediation, and the enforcement that follows an award.04Insolvency, debt recovery and commercial lawRecovery for lenders and suppliers, and the insolvency work that follows when recovery fails.05Corporate practice and financeIncorporation, governance, transactions and the drafting that holds a commercial arrangement together.06Capital market operations and tribunalsSecurities work, privatisation advice, and appearances before the specialised tribunals.
All thirteen practices

The chambers

Advice that anticipates the quagmire, not only the litigation.

Most legal services react: a problem occurs, a firm is invited to address it. Nottinghill Chambers was founded on 16 May 2006 to work the other way round — qualitative advice given early, so that the situations our clients can foresee never become the matters they have to fight. When they must be fought, they are fought by counsel who have done it before, out of a chambers equipped with an up-to-date library and the research facilities that support it.

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Instructed by

Central Bank of Nigeria

Federal Inland Revenue Service

Federal Ministry of Justice

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Securities and Exchange Commission

Nigerian Army

Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria

Centre for Advanced Special and Mapping Technologies

Our individual clients are numerous; it is our policy to treat their names as confidential.

Matters of note

Abubakar v. Attorney-General of the Federation

Civil litigation and election petitions

James Kolawole Olowookere, SAN

Atiku Abubakar v. Independent National Electoral Commission

Civil litigation and election petitions

James Kolawole Olowookere, SAN

Abubakar v. Independent National Electoral Commission

Civil litigation and election petitions

James Kolawole Olowookere, SAN

Senator Festus Bode Ola v. Independent National Electoral Commission

Civil litigation and election petitions

James Kolawole Olowookere, SAN

The full record

From the chambers

Election petitionsThe clock, not the case, decides most petitionsA petition is a statutory proceeding with a fixed timetable. Nothing that is lost in the first fortnight can be recovered later.James Kolawole Olowookere, SAN · 6 minDebt recoveryJudgment is halfway. Enforcement is the other halfMost recovery instructions arrive after judgment, when the asset has already moved. A short note on sequencing.Samuel Ogunleye · 5 minTechnologyThe ICT contract nobody reads until it failsService levels, data handling and exit are the three clauses that decide what a technology contract is actually worth.Ade-Oye Michael Olorunsola · 6 min
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Instructing the chambers

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Conflicts are cleared within one working day. Urgent applications — injunctions, ex parte relief and interim orders — are taken by telephone at any hour.