ROCKHAVEN SOLICITORS,NIGERIA

Rockhaven Solicitors, Nigeria right from the onset elects to serve the discerning Client ready to receive utmost value for every dollar paid out as legal fees and therefore finds initial acceptability with leading Nigeria financial institutions. The Firm, over the last 16 year has provided full services to financial institutions and is duly acknowledged as one of Nigeria’s financial law Firm of distinction.

AGAIN out of a great need to be of utmost relevance to the original Clientele, the Firm, perhaps more than any other, now provides detailed, step by step instructions for any Client, no matter where situated, no matter the angle of involvement, to triumphantly exit the global moneylaundering traps which seems to be everywhere these days. In other elected areas of practice the Firm has consistently shown, by performance, that it will not be second rated to any other law firm of whatever pedigree as our Associates/Lawyers are consistently motivated to be on top of the very latest global development in their professed field. We still do not apologize for our insistence on a MASTER’S DEGREE IN LAW and the production of an annual scholastic paper extending the frontier of knowledge/practice in a professed field before retaining any ASSOCIATE as a GROUP HEAD. For all of the above and more, our Clients remain committed to our Practice and her philosophy. Representative Clients; Bank Phb,Intercontinental Bank,Guaranty Trust Bank,Unity Bank,Union Bank,Dunlop Nigeria Plc,Royal Exchange Assurance Plc,Ecobank Nigeria Plc,Total Oil,First Bank Of Nigeria,UBA Plc,First Inland Bank,Fidelity Bank ,Geotess Nig Ltd,Rockhaven Franchise ,Diamond Bank . AREAS OF PRACTICE: Internet Fraud. Energy/Mining. Entertainment/Media. Immigration. Intellectual Property. Litigation. Natural Resources. Nonprofit Organizations. Real Estate. Securities/Investments. Taxation. Technology. Telecommunications. Estates Planning/Matrimonial Causes. Wills/Probate.

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Our GLOBAL CONTACT PARTNER - OLUWASEGUN OJEMUYIWA ESQLL.M.

Mr Ojemuyiwa after a most consistent brilliant outing in his pre- university education days, graduated in the Second Class Upper Honours CLASS from both the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and the Nigeria Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos December 1988 and 1989 respectively.

He was a University of Lagos Sponsored postgraduate scholar and holds a 1991 Masters of Laws Degree specializing in SECURED CREDIT TRANSACTIONS from the same University.

Right from the onset Mr Ojemuyiwa has his focus on international legal practice and therefore has patterned his career progression to best suit legal practice across borders.

Knowing fully well that the international Client is best served adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to resolution of legal issues ,he elects, after law school graduation to serve as A FULL BANKING OFFICER with the biggest and most stable bank in Nigeria, the UNION BANK OF NIGERIA ( formerly BARCLAYS BANK) .This opportunity afforded him ae rare opportunity to gain an in-depth first hand knowledge of Banking Operations and the recurring legal issues affecting Banking operations locally and internationally which highly priced legal intervention could not satisfactorily resolve due to lack of inside knowledge of banking operations, systems and processes .

IT is therefore logical for him to enrol for the Master Of Laws Degree Program at the UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS ,NIGERIA Postgraduate School after a year stint with UNION BANK AS A FULL BANKING OFFICER. During the LL.M PROGRAMME he took instructions in many courses including conflict of laws ,comparative company law , secured credit transactions and law of labour relations.

Having found as a fact that most Banks in Nigeria and elsewhere will eventually succumb under the heavy pressure of irrecoverable , bad and doubtful debts if informed legal intervention are not called upon in the process of granting ,securing and recovery of the loans, he has over the years prepared himself to be an invaluable assets for a financial institutions battling the scourge of bad and doubtful debts .

After his postgraduate education ,under the watchful direction of the then highly experienced ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,PRINCE BOLA AJIBOLA( himself a Commercial lawyer)Mr Ojemuyiwa was introduced to the then BROAD STREET,INVESTMENT HOUSE LAW FIRM OF SIJI SOETAN &CO for further exposure and tutelage in INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE .

It was while at SIJI SOETAN & CO that MR Ojemuyiwa held the briefs OF GLOBAL CLIENTS such as CHEVRON OIL,LUFTHANSA GERMAN AIRLINES,SHELL PETROLEUM amongst others and perfected referral briefs from leading laws firms such as HERBERT SMITH. The intimidating array of diverse commercial briefs held of global clients at SIJI SOEATAN &CO definitely found a solid foundation for Mr Ojemuyiwa upon which he has continued to build on these past 16 years ,when he moved from SIJI SOETAN to the SWISS MULTINATIONAL CONGLOMERATE UTC NIGERIA PLC AS Group Legal Officer.

A position which again afforded him the very rare opportunity to work directly under the supervision of the eagle–eyed SWISS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR MR WEGMUELLER whose total commitment to total excellence in service delivery is legendary.

It could be correctly averred that it was inside the LAW OFFICE OF UTC NIGERIA PLC that Mr.Ojemuyiwa in addition to being fully involved in protecting the physical and intellectual properties of the Giant Multinational Trading Company also learnt the temperament of the International Businessman . He has since discovered that the international businessman ,understandably too, must necessarily have zero tolerance for wrongly stated , slovenly delivered legal opinion and unrehearsed / unresearched legal submissions at trials and professional engagements.

The experience gained at UNION BANK/SIJI SOETAN / UTC NIGERIA PLC must have convinced Mr. Ojemuyiwa of the need to help move forward the frontier of knowledge in certain areas of commercial law practice .He therefore could not resist the temptation to accept when offered an academic position at 2 of Nigeria’s most strategic and vibrant Universities ,THE UNIVERSITIES OF ABUJA AND LAGOS wherein he taught and examined over 5000 students in the following subjects;- THE LAW OF CONTRACT, BANKING LAW, INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW AND LAW OF TAXATION .

It is with these highly diverse and professionally rich background that Mr. Ojemuyiwa was divinely inspired to pioneer the establishment of this Uniquely Structured, Uniquely Directed Law Practice styled “Rockhaven(Solicitors) on January 6,1992 with a very clear mission “ to concentrate brilliant legal resources on the global minded client burning for the fastest and best legal intervention money could buy”..

Mr Ojemuyiwa over the past 16 years has single-handedly brought the firm into profitable fee earning relationship with giants such as;- dunlop nigeria plc,uac nigeria plc,churchgate ,aiico insurance plc,union bank,first bank,uba plc.afribank plc,platinun habib bank,intercontinental bank.totalfinaelf now total nigeria plc,ecobank ,guaranty trust bank,unity bank,fidelity bank ,zentith bank,geotess nigeria ltd,,wema bank ,first inland bank amongst others.

In his professed field, FINANCIAL LAW AND MONEYLAUNDERING,he has distinguished himself adding value to leading Nigeria Banks in the last 16 years passing along to the Clients and the discerning Global Audience ,up –to- date developments relevant to their businesses given our practice an advance introduction into the marketplace .

He, assisted by seasoned Associates has perfected mega consideration loan arrangements on behalf of various banking clients and has also achieved outstanding debt recovery from very difficult debtors on behalf of various clients while ensuring the precious customer-banker relationship between creditors and debtors are not destroyed.

He also acts as consultant to Counsels involved in money laundering related issues and trials. He is also a great asset when the clients seeks to convert non performing physical assets into cash.

Mr Ojemuyiwa as a matter of self imposed duty comes out periodically with very topical publications when the issue in the forefront of national/ international discourse relates to Moneylaundering/Banking specifically and Governance in general.

He , arguably, is the first Nigerian lawyer to publicly come out with the first ever comprehensive criticism of NIGERIA”S most comprehensive anti money laundering legislation, THE NIGERIA MONEYLAUNDERING PROHIBITION ACT 2004 which certainly compelled the legislature to amend certain sections of the said law .

When ,largely out of ignorance of the extant anti lawyering laws in Nigeria, a professional conference calls for the resignation of NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME FORMER BOSS ,NUHU RIBADU in the aftermath of the arraignment of some SILKS for moneylaundering related charges ,Mr Ojemuyiwa also help settle the dust by publishing an article detailing the PRESENT STATUS OF THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION LEGAL PRACTICE PRIVILEDGE IN NIGERIA, an article so authoritative on its subject warranting further republication for the international legal audience by LEGALBRIEFAFRICA( www.legalbriefafrica.co.za),an electronic Legal newsletter supported by the INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION .

IT is therefore a well deserved professional recognition when Mr Ojemuiwa was featured on the double page of the JULY 19, 2005 edition of NIGERIA’S FOREMOST NEWSPAPER ,THE THISDAY as “the law personality” wherein he competently and admirably fielded questions on money laundering and corporate governance.

He is presently working on 2 textbooks to enrich legal jurisprudence namely the first ever comprehensive textbook on MONEYLAUNDERING meant as an essential guide for the international businessman, the academic ,the prosecutor, the defense counsel ,the legislature and the judiciary and secondly a textbook titled “ THE LAW OF CONTRACT IN THE ,YESTERYEARS AND IN THE INTERNET ERA.” As a further contribution to Society, he has written widely publicized articles on GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA heightening the war against MISGOVERNANCE/CORRUPTION and on a pro bono basis, he until recently, co -authored the legal angle in NIGERIA’S LEADING PROPERTY MAGAZINE, the castles. Mr Ojemuyiwa is passionate about the choices he has made he is resilient, a highly determined personality willing to arrive at a pre-stated goal, no matter the obstacles.

These qualities and his ability to ensure the firm consistently exceed the client expectations of a Nigerian sourced law firm positively, on any given assignment marks him and the firm he supritends over an ally for the global minded client. He is a member of the Financial Services Lawyers Association and also an associate member of International Association Of Entertainment Lawyers

Do accept from us, JOSEPH OLUWASEGUN ENITAN OJEMUYIWA of Counsel as the GLOBAL CONTACT PARTNER of ROCKHAVEN(Solicitors).

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