Adeyinka Aderemi, SAN

Adeyinka Aderemi, SAN is a Partner responsible for the Firm's Dispute Resolution Practice. His primary practice area is Dispute Resolution. An ardent litigator and arbitrator, he has argued landmark cases before all courts and tribunals across Nigeria at first instance and appellate levels.

He has vast experience in diverse civil and criminal matters, with an extensive range of issues including banking, debt recovery, receivership and insolvency, real estate, contract, intellectual property, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and taxation.

His notable representations include an action at the Lagos State High Court to recover debt arising from a Vehicle and Asset Finance Facility and other overdraft facilities totalling over N1bn advanced to a company for the purchase of vehicles; an action against the Federal Inland Revenue Service in respect of an income tax liability imposed on companies by the FIRS; an action challenging the FIRS on the applicability of the Transfer Pricing Regulations to a group of companies; and arbitral proceedings for the sum of N43m brought for the enforcement of a drilling contract vitiated by force majeure.

He holds a BL from the Nigerian Law School and an LLB from Obafemi Awolowo University. He is a member of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, a member of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and a member of the International Centre for Commercial Arbitration. He is also a co-author of the Nigerian chapter of Getting the Deal Through publications on Enforcement of Foreign Judgements and Tax Disputes and Litigation Review.