Joke Aliu
MANAGING PARTNER



Joke possesses a deep and thorough understanding of her clients’ businesses, helping to define clear objectives, overcoming challenges and achieving objectives in the areas of dispute resolution and corporate commercial law.
Joke, our co-Managing Partner, has a wide range of experience across the firm’s dispute resolution and corporate practice areas. She has represented several multinational and local companies and individuals in complex, high-value arbitration and litigation proceedings in local and regional courts, arising from matters including oil and gas, maritime, employment, shareholder disputes, debt recovery and human rights. Joke also has acted as a joint expert in Nigerian law. In proceedings at Truro County Court, United Kingdom, she provided an expert report on the enforcement of foreign judgements. She represented the family of the late Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, in a successful suit against the Republic of Gambia at the Community Court of Justice ECOWAS. She currently serves as Nigerian counsel to a Spanish oil company in a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators commercial arbitration (with its seat in London) arising from the termination of a contract governed by English law, regulating potential business ventures in Nigeria. She regularly engages with key regulators and advises on company formation, regulatory and compliance issues.
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