Sefton Fross admits two new partners

Nigerian leading law firm, Sefton Fross, has announced the admission of Messrs. Olufemi Oguntokun and Adeola Owoade into Partnership, with effect from 1st May 2017. The admission of the two Partners is a further attestation of the Firm’s commitment to provide excellent and efficient legal services to its clients and to retain its position as a market leader in the provision of outstanding and bespoke legal services to its local and international clients. The admission of the two new Partners comes as part of the strategic restructuring of Sefton Fross to firmly re-position itself as a foremost law firm in different practice areas within the global legal circle.

According to the Managing Partner, Olayemi Anyanechi, “The admission of Femi and Adeola is a confirmatory statement that at Sefton Fross, we intend to build a lasting institution that will survive its founder. Femi and Adeola are renowned experts in their fields of practice and their admission to the Partnership of Sefton Fross will contribute significantly to the growth of the Firm and in delivering first class legal services to our clients. I congratulate the duo and welcome them on board.”

Olufemi Oguntokun has fifteen years’ extensive and varied experience advising business concerns on the corporate, commercial and regulatory aspects of business undertakings and the documentation of complex business and investment transactions. He also has rich experience advising industry groups and regulatory bodies on the institution and review of regulatory frameworks for both new and existing industries in Nigeria. While the larger part of his professional practice experience has been devoted to acting as an outside counsel, he has also served as Company Secretary and Legal Counsel to CR Services Plc., overseeing that company’s conversion to public status, stock exchange quotation and licensing by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

As Legal Adviser to the Credit Bureau Association of Nigeria, he worked closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the International Finance Corporation to develop the first set of regulations for the industry in 2008 and its subsequent replacements. Clients have consistently commended his perceptive analytical skills and his firm grasp of underlying and tangential issues embedded in complex transactions.

Femi leads the Firm’s Corporate and Commercial Practice.

INDUSTRY FILE

Adeola Owoade, is an astute commercial litigator with excellent skills in litigation practice and all forms of ADR, including arbitration, mediation, and conciliation. He has represented numerous corporate clients, multi-national corporations and financial institutions in commercial disputes before the Courts in Nigeria, local and international arbitrations. He is widely respected for his painstaking legal analysis of technical issues and as a consummate master of details.

Adeola holds a first degree in law from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria graduating with First Class (Hons.) and was the best graduating student in the Faculty of Law of his set and the overall best graduating student in the University. He also holds a Master of Corporate Law degree from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, graduating also with First Class (Hons). He is one of the first Herbert Smith Freehills’ African Scholars of the University of Cambridge. He is also an accomplished legal author with several scholarly publications to his credit.

Adeola leads the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice.

Sefton Fross is a corporate commercial law firm with expertise across its different practice areas spanning multiple sectors and industries. The Firm’s expertise is confirmed by accolades and recognitions at different times in domestic and international legal directories. This includes, recognition as a Leading Corporate and Financial Law Firm, Leading Energy and Infrastructure Firm, Leading Law Firm in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Leading Law Firm in Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Leading Law Firm in Dispute Resolution, Nigerian Oil and Gas Team of the Year, Nigerian Best Private Equity Firm, Best Cross-Border Transaction Team of the Year and Energy