Fidelis Oditah QC
- Contact details:
- 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7969 9911
- LDE338 (Chancery) Lane
- Email fidelisoditah@southsquare.com
- Web www.southsquare.com
- Professional memberships:
- Queen’s Counsel (UK)
- Senior Advocate of Nigeria
- Visiting Professor of Law, University of Oxford
- Member of Court (Governing Council), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Member, Chancery Bar Association
- Member, Commercial Bar Association
- Member, Insolvency Lawyers Association
- Member, International Bar Association
- Education:
- LLB (Lagos) 1984
- MA (Oxon) 1989
- BCL (Oxon) 1987
- D Phil (Oxon) 1989
- Commonwealth Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford between Sept 1986 and Sept 1989
- Areas of practice:
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International Commercial Arbitration, General Commercial Litigation, International Commercial Contracts, State Contracts, Oil and Gas and Other Forms of Energy, Banking and Financial Services, Company law and Insolvency.
Acts regularly as Arbitrator and also as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunals, both in institutional (including ICC and LCIA) and ad hoc arbitrations
Acts as Counsel at all levels of court in England (High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords) and to Arbitral Tribunals
Has acted as Counsel in other jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Nigeria and Bermuda