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Temidayo Felicia Oketola

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Position:

Senior Associate

Expertise:

Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Taxation.
Energy and Extractive Industries.
Family Law and Probate.

CAREER / HONORS

Appointed Notary Public for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Team member of a group of Counsel representing a major Nigerian LNG company in various disputes arising from the blockade of its vessels by a federal agency in Nigeria.
Member of the team of counsel representing Manufacturers Association of Nigeria in various disputes relating to undue hike in the electricity tariff in Nigeria, before various courts, the Senate Committee on Power, the House of Representatives Joint Committees on Power, Commerce, National Planning & Economic Development and Delegated legislation, and the NERC.
Team member of a group of counsel representing the NNPC in various disputes arising from the importation and distribution of substandard fuel in Nigeria.
Member of the team of Counsel representing a major gold mining company in Nigeria (Segilola Gold Project).
Coordinated the team of Counsel who represented a multi-million dollar petroleum refining company in Nigeria, providing advisory services and representing its interests in various actions before different courts in Nigeria.
Lead Counsel in various high profile commercial and general civil disputes before trial and appellate courts.
Participated actively in various actions involving leading financial and investment institutions in respect of tax disputes with a federal authority.
Member of a team of counsel who reviewed thousands of backlog cases and made appropriate recommendations to the Chief Judge and Chairman, High Court of Lagos State Backlog of Cases Elimination Committee.
Seconded as External Legal Auditor to a second-generation commercial bank in Nigeria where I audited the bank’s litigation port-folio and provided legal advice on its management Counsel in various matters involving land disputes before courts of record in Nigeria.
Lead counsel in various family disputes before courts across Nigeria.
Lead counsel in various complex Mediation Proceedings at the Lagos Multi-Door Court House.
Member of team of counsel who provide legal opinion and regular advisory services on tax related matters to companies in Nigeria.
Editor of judgements of courts of records in Nigeria for weekly publication in Thisday Newspaper (a national daily).

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

LL.B (Hons) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun State.
Called to the Nigerian Bar in 2007.
Admitted as an Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria in 2022.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Member, Nigerian Bar Association.
Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
Graduate Member, Nigerian Institute of Management.