Managing Partner
Nzeakor ("Nze") Atulomah
LL.M., B.L., FCArb
Nze is the Managing Partner of the firm, responsible for service quality assurance and client relationship management. He oversees the due coordination of all the legal services of the firm and ensures clients receive the best quality support — including accurate legal advice and efficient documentation of transactions. He takes responsibility for the development of service strategies for the firm for growth and continuity.
Mr Atulomah has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, including advisory, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, documentation and implementation. Nze has been involved in advising joint venture parties to a major LNG Project, and has advised a significant number of foreign direct investments and portfolio investments, amongst other projects.
Core areas of expertise
- Fintech and other tech startup advisory and regulatory
- Dispute Resolution
- Energy projects — documentation and finance
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Corporate Finance
- Consumer Finance, and Asset Securitisation
Further practice areas
- Employment and Industrial Relations — Dispute Resolution
- Corporate Finance & Infrastructure
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation, Arbitration and other Dispute Resolution
- Taxation & Revenue: Law and Practice
- Corporate Governance
- Banking Law, Investments and Corporate Finance
Background
- Alumnus of Abia State University and the University of Lagos
- Member, Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered)
- Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (FCArb)
- Facilitator and examiner, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators — taught membership induction courses and authored major moot arbitration cases
- Taught classes in Business Law and Regulation in MBA programmes of the Lagos Business School, and the Certificate in Enterprise Management Programme of the Enterprise Development Service (both of the Pan-Atlantic University)
- Author of several articles and papers
- Pioneer Honorary Secretary, Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria
- Sits as a non-executive director on several company boards, including publicly quoted companies
Bars & Courts: Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Nze is a doctoral student of the Imo State University, where his research interest is on the reform of the investment justice system and its impact on national populations affected by large quanta of monetary awards handed down by arbitral tribunals in Investor-State Dispute Settlement systems.
