About Us
Temple Chambers (Barristers & Solicitors) is a law firm that specializes in various aspects of law, in domestic and international, commercial and business law. Our clients, both domestic and international, call upon us to handle the structural, regulatory and tax aspects of their transactions, as well as to negotiate and effectuate joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, privatization, commercialization, commercial real estate financing and cross border financing and leasing transactions. The firm of lawyers pool their collective skills, resources, expertise and knowledge together; and we are known for our ability to offer practical and creative business solutions to our clients.
We recognize the peculiar nature of Nigeria's Privatization Program as well as its legal and regulatory framework. Furthermore, in view of the need to take maximum advantage of the lessons from the privatization experience in other jurisdictions, the firm works in partnership with international law firms. Our firm's retainer-ship spans across several establishments. We have worked extensively with financial institutions large and medium sized manufacturing companies, building and construction, computer and information service organisations, communications, trading and service companies, and mining and energy companies.
We also specialize in rendering expert legal services to corporate bodies. A Special Member of the Abuja Stock Exchange, the firm is also retained by paramount federal ministries and paratatals and State Governments. Furthermore, the firm represents some foreign companies/corporations and their Nigerian affiliates.
Our Credentials
The continuity of our principals has allowed us to provide our clients and employees with excellence on a consistent basis. We have been pioneers in many areas of legal practice and have expanded internationally as our clients have moved abroad. We have enthusiastically espoused the spirit of freedom and competition, and have challenged narrow outlooks and practices whenever they are at odds with client interests. The quality of our various services have earned us several faithful clients and recognition for our accomplishments, we thank our clients for their trust and our staff for their dedication.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is to grow with our clients on a long term basis. Our aim is to offer positive and constructive advice, specifically tailored to individual needs in full compliance with the law; This engenders a close working relationship between client and solicitor. Our experience tells us that each client will have widely different aims to be catered for and no standard advice will ever be quite right.
We work with clients, and where appropriate, encourage annual reviews to reassess this strategy. As income circumstances business requirements alters through the course of life of a client, corporate statutory or individual, rest assured that we will be on hand to make any necessary changes.
Temple Chambers (Barristers & Solicitors) will in the best interest of her clients work in a team with experts in related industry. Where the requirement of our esteemed clients and need for total package demand, we will co-ordinate a number of companies, each operating within its own specialist area. So whether your need be corporate expansion by way of sale and privatization, or a fresh injection of equity, our expert financial risk advisers and strategy practitioners, property and asset valuers, international law firms and accountants are readily on hand working in conjunction with us for a smooth financially viable takeover.
We are proud of the fact that we apply the same level of skills, expertise and professionalism whether we are advising private clients or corporate bodies, regardless of whether we are dealing with modest or substantial sums..
Working in Partnership
Every client of Temple Chambers (Barristers & Solicitors) instructing us is allotted their own personal solicitor from our team possessing the requisite specialization and expertise to render good service, as a ready point of contact through whom their requirements can be managed, services co-ordinated, and quality assured. All our solicitors work in teams to ensure that the most important aspects of advice, continuity and consistency, will always be maintained. Each team has access to specialist expertise whose professional skills and experience compliment their own.
Over the years we have developed strong working relationships with other professional advisers, particularly financial risk and strategy advisers, accounts valuers and stock brokers. Equally, many firms use our skills to supplement their own in order to provide a broad band of legal services. Our network and versatility equipped with the very latest technology, enables us to bring the quality of service to clients wherever they may be. Personal service and extensive network of recommendations is the foundation upon which our business has grown and will continue to grow.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING BUSINESS.
Principal Partner
Enewa Rita Chris-Garuba (Mrs.) LL.M (Lon), MCIArb (UK), FCIArb.
Enewa Rita Chris-Garuba (Mrs.) was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1980. Following four years of tutelage at the Chambers of Chief Rotimi Williams, she attended King's College Strand, University of London, where her Masters degree covered pertinent specialists areas that shaped her future thrust in legal practice.
Her particular subjects were Company Law, International Business Transactions, Business Taxation and Intellectual Property. She has since had extensive experience in corporate restructuring energy, investments mergers and acquisitions, tax issues, project finance and corporate due diligence. She has also been involved in all the firm's capital market transactions often more challenged by the near impossible issues. She is also a member and an Arbitrator of the Industrial Arbitration Panel, Nigeria.
Enewa Rita Chris-Garuba is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Nigeria, the recipient of the Prince Bola Ajibola Prize for International Arbitration and the overall Best Candidate in 2014.
She is a Member/Arbitrator of the Industrial Arbitration Panel specialising in Industrial Relations and Labour and Employment issues.
She is a member of the International Bar Association, Section on Buisness Law; Nigerian Bar Association, a recipient of the Alumnus of the year award of the Law Faculty University of Lagos. She has practiced in other jurisdictions giving her a broad and balanced perspective. Also, she is a member of the Association of Communications Lawyers, Abuja Initiative and other socio-political organisations.
Presently the firm can rely on its associates:
ANGELA UZOKWE LL.B(Hons) BL. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1988 after which she joined the firm in 1989 as junior counsel. She has since worked consistently in corporate commercial documentations.
AYODE AJE LL.B(Hons) BL, LL.M. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1994. His particular strength is in research, providing invaluable material answers to all areas of the intentive field of advocacy.
We will further be assisted by CHINYERE NWOGWU LL.B(Hons) BL, and LAWAL AHMED Jnr. LL.B(Hons), BL, LL.M(Dundee) both also of the firm.
CAROLINE NDIDI AKOBUNDU LL.B (Hons) BL. Obtained an LL.B (Hons) second class upper division. Was called to the Nigerian Bar 2003. Her forte is in the area of Corporate/Company Law. She is head of Chambers.
THADEUS ODO LL.B(Hons) BL. Was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. He has been involved in the firms litigation department.
ABRAHAM OMAH LL.B(Hons) BL. Joined the firm in 2010.
JENNIFER GEORGE NKUTTUFOR, LL.B(Hons) BL. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Bauchi Project Professional and the Nigerian Association of Petroleum.
NENE PHILOMENA EMESEALU. Born in 1971 she was called to the Nigerian Bar in March 1995. She graduated from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State of Nigeria. She has her postgraduate MBA from Cardiff University, Wales UK in 2008. She heads the department in chambers of International Business Transactions/ International Joint Ventures and Trade
The firm is also supported by para-legal support staff.
Consulting
The Firm is assisted and consults three external consultants whose long proven experience has been an invaluable and immense asset.
>Professor A. Bamidele Kasumu
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), one time Attorney General of Lagos State, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos State, Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Professor-at-Law, University of Lagos and part-time lecturer of the Nigerian Law School. He has well over 25 years of active legal experience.
>Dr. Joseph Nnabuchi Nwodo
Consultants Corporation/Company Law.
Listing
Martindale Hubbell International Law Directory: The Law Society of England & Wales - Foreign Law Firms - R.I. Kuku & Company.
International Bar Association: Directory of Members 2001 - www.ibanet.org
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