At Debo Akande LLP, we have litigated matters across different sectors in different courts all over the federation, up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria. We have represented clients in some of the keenly contested legal disputes in the country, obtaining landmark judgments in our clients’ favour. This is why our clients do not only come back to us, but highly recommend us to others. We have represented clients on litigation proceedings involving commercial disputes including debt recovery, employment and trade disputes, finance and securities disputes, and shipping and oil services disputes. We have developed significant experience in securing arrest orders to gain security for our client’s claims.
We are well known for employing the most efficient litigation strategies and diligently pursuing all our matters to logical conclusions. The best interest of our clients is of utmost importance to us as a firm, and our diverse team of versatile lawyers develop and implement superior case management plans to ensure the protection of those interests, at all times.
Over the years, we have also successfully employed arbitration, negotiation and mediation as well as other ADR mechanisms to help resolve disputes across all sectors. Our focus is to help clients preserve business relationships as much as possible, while preventing the slowing down or standstill in their commercial activities due to litigation. As such, we make it a priority to devise commercially feasible compromises to disputes for parties in order to save time and costs, and preserve relationships. Our lawyers are highly skilled and well exposed to the various available ADR mechanisms and are able to adopt the most suitable, and or the predetermined ADR technique(s) applicable to each peculiar brief.
Our team members are committed to continuous training development in this area. Not only do they undergo requisite training and exposure in ADR, they are members of recognized national and international ADR societies, and participate in conferences and seminars as facilitators and participants from time to time.