OA&A is a diversified law firm with special interest in development law. OA&A has extensive legal expertise and offers policy, legal, technical and governance advisory services to public and private organizations.
We are committed to the belief that effective legal representation requires more than just a thorough understanding of applicable law, it also includes our clients business, market places, regulatory environments, challenges and strategic goals. This is why we are called Legal Solution Providers.
OA&A has consulted for the World Bank Group, the Department for International Development (DFID), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the United States Agency for International Development, Ford Foundation, the British Council, the Norwegian Governmentetc. the firm has expansive litigation experience and has practiced in all courts of Superior records and is regularly involved in leading landmark cases at the Supreme Court.
OA&A is a leading consultant to Ministry of Transport and The National Maritime Authority on formulation of a new shipping policy for the west coast of Africa and Nigeria . The firm is the first to set up a Space Law unit in response to the new space policy of government. it runs strategic services on the maritime sector of Nigeria . We are consulting for the Attorney General of Nigeria with the support of DFID on Justice Sector reforms. The Firm is also consulting on various clients and interest group on a new constitution for Nigeria .
The firm has development cutting edge on financial advisory services with bias towards non-litigation fast track contemporary instruments for achieving greater credit performance, securities and other related legal aspects of project financing and credit performance through researched proposals, papers, workshops, fora, seminars and legislative advocacy. It has a publishing outfit, which has published over fifty major legal works in diverse fields of law including legal reform, banking, oil & gas, competition, space, human rights and governance, port policy and cabotage etc. We are at the point of completion in the production of a new Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) rules and is in collaboration with Butterworths Publishers on Federal High Court Practice Manual.
The firm is supported by over 50-memebr staff made up of Partners, Consultants, Senior Associates, Associates, Paralegal, Researchers, and Office Administrators. The Senior Partner is a Senior Counsel (equivalent of Queens Counsel) and is a fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Negotiation and Conflict Management Group (NCMG) and other professional organizations.
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