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We have a team of vastly experienced professionals, providing World Class Legal Advice
Our firm prides itself as a multi-disciplinary firm having many departments. Each on its own can help our clients in particular ways; taken together the departments add value to the work we do by saving time, effort and money, and streamlining the work processes.
This is especially useful in managing projects, which require us to coordinate many types of input; technical skills, legal issues, and resource administration as well as information and communication technologies.
Our briefs are usually often undertaken alone or in collaboration or partnership with other firm’s, and if necessary with relevant in-house staff of our client’s. The firm operates at all times with commitment to the highest standards of professional integrity and etiquette.
Our clients know that every brief we handle is managed in the best possible way, with all its elements in place, and with a guaranteed result in view.
To do this we use our own expertise, though we also draw upon resources from other companies, organisations and individuals from around the world to supplement our input in areas of activity needing particular expert attention outside our in-house competence.
PARTNERS
​​Terhiley Ayua, LLB, BL,LLM
Ayua is a former Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly where his thorough grasp of legal issues and legislative procedure stood him out among presiding officers of legislative houses in Nigeria.
He graduated at the top of his class at the University of Maiduguri with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1990. He thereafter proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1991. He has been in private legal practice since then. He founded the Firm of Ayua & Company in 1994 and managed same until January 2005 when he joined Global Solicitors & Partners as a Partner. Notably Mr. Ayua headed the team that carried out the restructuring of Delta Oil and Chemicals Limited and its bid for marginal oil fields. He has also handled a number of high profile litigation matters. He was also the head of the legal team that consulted for Africa Business Roundtable.
A consummate attorney Mr. Ayua is especially versatile in Investment and Banking policy Issues, Commercial Arbitration/Mediation and Constitutional Matters. He sits on the Boards of Environment Friendly Limited, Ultravet Services Limited and Xima Services Limited and heads the Litigation Department of Global Solicitors & Partners.
​​ADUM TER ALEX, LLB, BL, LLM
A former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Benue State, former Member of the Body of Benchers and former Member of the Nigerian Council of Legal Education, Adum needs very little introduction within legal circles in Nigeria.
He is an alumni of the faculty of law A. B. U. Zaria, and has been in active legal practice since his call to the Nigerian Bar. He had a stint with D.D.Dodo & Co (SAN) and joined the firm of Abaagu Takema & Associates in 2000 as Managing Associate of the firm’s Abuja Office. He is consummate, versatile and sagacious. His Special practice interests include Media and Telecommunications law, International law, Intellectual Property law and general advocacy. He also has a rich exposure in international conflict management, law of international institutions, competition regulation and information and communications technology. He was at various times Special Research Officer of the Global Peace Projects (GPP) and Country Programmes Officer of the same project. He was also special research assistant to the ECOMOG Stamp Project Office at the ECOWAS Secretariat Abuja.
He holds a Masters of Law Degree, LLM and his thesis dissertation was “An appraisal of the Regulatory framework for Regulating Telecommunications in Nigeria under the Communications Act 2003”. He was the lead consultant to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on the establishment of Statutory Registers as required under the Communications Act 2003. He was also on the legal team of the Central Bank of Nigeria on the Financial System Strategy (FSS-20-2020) Project.His practice appeal reflects a synergy of disciplines, law, finance, anti-trust regulation and competition law, making him a much sought after legal practitioner, investment portfolio analyst and resource benefit management consultant. He heads the firm’s Corporate Practice Department.
​​KERSHA AERGA, LLB, BL, LL.M (On Leave of Absence)
Kersha is a versatile and multi-dimensional attorney with extensive experience in legal transaction advisories, business/contract compliance and organizational governance.
He holds first and second degrees in law, a post graduate certificate in public procurement and contract management, and is a certified public private partnerships specialist.
He has also attended several local and international courses in the areas of contract negotiations, debt management, capital market instruments, taxation and public private partnerships.
His professional experience which spans both the private and public sector has seen him consult for several local and international organizations on international trade, business transactions and organizational governance.
A member of the United States National Contract Management Association (NCMA), Society for International Affairs (SIA) and National Institute for Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), he is regularly consulted on issues of commercial dispute resolution, international trade compliance, business transaction advisories and all aspects of public procurement, including PPPs.
​​AGEBE ODEH, LLB, BL,
He graduated from the University of Jos and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2000. Odeh joined Sunmonu & Co. Kano immediately after his call to bar and gained a lot of exposure and experience at a jet speed. His budding potentials attracted the management of Hassan Abdulrahman & Co. who enlisted him in Chambers as head of its Abuja office, a position he voluntarily resigned in February 2005 to join Global Solicitors & Partners. He also had a brief classroom experience as a Law Lecturer at the Kano State Polytechnic, Kano.
He has also consulted for such reputable corporate organisations like Stallion Properties Limited, Media Trusts Limited to mention but a few. He is a vibrant advocate with special interest in Litigation, Banking and Insurance Laws, Commercial Arbitration and telecommunications.
His knack for litigation has taken him to several practice jurisdictions in Nigeria and to the hierarchy of all Courts in the country. He has profound appellate practice experience, particularly at the Court of Appeal where he has had over 50 appearances at its various divisions in Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Jos, Makurdi and Ilorin.