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Fidelis Oditah QC

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Work +44 20 7696 9900
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Position

Barrister specialising in company law, corporate finance, capital markets, asset-based financing, financial services, banking, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance insolvency and regulation and civil claims arising from commercial fraud. Now mainly practising in Nigeria and engaged in international commercial arbitration both as counsel and arbitrator. Avaliable to advise in relation to Nigerian law.

Career

Qualified 1992, Lincoln’s Inn; appointed QC 2003; appointed senior advocate of Nigeria 2004; member of the court of LCIA; member of board of trustees, Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA). Visiting Professor, University of Oxford Law Faculty 2000 to date; Fellow and tutor in Law, Merton College, Oxford and Travers Smith Braithwaite lecturer in Corporate Finance Law, University of Oxford 1989-97. Publications of note: ‘Oditah: Legal Aspects of Receivables Financing’; ‘Insolvency of Banks: Managing the Risks’ (Oditah, Moss, Mortimore, Phillips and Tamlyn); ‘Oditah: The Future for the Global Securities Markets’.

Member

Commercial Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; Nigerian Bar Association.

Education

Magdalen College, Oxford (MA, BCL, DPHIL (Oxon))

Leisure

Golf, table tennis.

Practice Areas

Commercial; Company; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction

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