Call Date: 2002
Samuel Okoronkwo is a barrister with over 30 years of commercial, professional and legal practice experience. Quite apart from being an excellent lawyer, he has specific industry expertise, having primarily had a hands-on professional career as an entrepreneur and a Quantity Surveyor.
Samuel is noted for his written and oral advocacy in litigation, often involving complex technical and legal issues. His skill is in identifying and presenting the central issues in a case. He represents his client’s interests efficiently, while presenting cases tactfully and forcefully.
With this significant experience and broad horizon, Samuel understands life outside of the law. He appreciates that legal advice and representation cannot be given in a bubble, but within a business context.
Understanding the pressures faced daily by company directors, solicitors, agents, accountants, architects, quantity surveyors, engineers or other professional advisers, he prefers to avoid legal jargon and speak the client’s language to bring a refreshing down-to-earth approach to the expert analysis of any commercial and legal matter.
In the Construction and Engineering industry, Samuel initially trained and practised as a Professional Quantity Surveyor, starting with the world’s first known Quantity Surveying firm, Henry Cooper & Sons established in 1775. Thereafter, Samuel spent several more years as a Construction Project Manager during which he had first-hand managerial responsibility for the planning, organising, directing and delivery of multi-million-pound construction and engineering projects, including the Harlequin Shopping Centre in Watford for Capital & Counties Plc, and the regeneration of London’s Canary Wharf business district with Lehrer McGovern International and Olympia & York.
Samuel has been involved in designing, negotiating and implementing the most innovative and profitable relationship arrangements covering all aspects of talent employment, intellectual property rights including image rights, merchandising, sponsorship, licencing and broadcasting rights. He also worked as a Property Developer for several years dealing with all aspects of complex land assembly, design development, development appraisals, planning consents, project financing, development procurement and management, asset disposals and retention within a portfolio.
In commerce, corporations, and law firms, Samuel has held senior managerial, in-house counsel positions and directorships for many years. He has had full profit responsibility for business planning and delivery including corporate governance. Samuel has also worked within the sports industry for several years at the highest levels as an FA-Registered Lawyer with the highest profile personnel, clubs and organisations. Read more about Samuel Okoronkwo reviews and feedback.
To contact or instruct Samuel Okoronkwo, please call 0020 3034 0077 and ask for his clerk or e-mail
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Libya, 2024
Steven Kay KC leads the 9BR Chambers team that produced the report Libya: Voice of the Tribes commissioned to support the peace and unification process for Libya after the failure of the UN and international community to provide the pathway for elections and reunite a divided Libya.
Libya: Voice of the Tribes the report available here
Government of South Sudan, 2021-ongoing
Provision of international legal services to cover advice upon international legal issues, internal armed conflicts, the 2018 Revitalised Peace Agreement and sanctions. A key report Pushing the Reset Button for South Sudan was drafted on the conflicts of 2013 and 2016 that challenged the narratives of the AU and EU South Sudan Reports
International Company X, 2022
Advice upon conducting business in a war zone.
Discovery Land Company v Stephen Jones, 2021 –
A successful direct access private prosecution at Southwark Crown Court of solicitor Stephen Jones who fraudulently misappropriated funds of $16,000,000 intended for the purchase of a Scottish castle.
Read more on the Daily Mail
Individual X, 2021
Report on business activities and companies of X accused of bribery and corruption by Wall Street Journal. Findings that the article by the WSJ was based upon unreliable and inaccurate hearsay provided by a UK intelligence company.
International Company X, 2020
Advice upon the impact of UK Bribery Act, FCPA and US State law for a global company with UK and US subsidiaries to ensure compliance as a result of sponsorship of political causes.
Re: Mamouka & Badri, 2019
Representing founders of TBC bank Georgia (listed on UK Stock Exchange) in their defence to allegations of money laundering under the Criminal Code of Georgia through a series of transactions in 2007-2008.
Re: Mamouka & Badri, 2019
Representing founders of TBC bank Georgia (listed on UK Stock Exchange) in their defence to allegations of money laundering under the Criminal Code of Georgia through a series of transactions in 2007-2008.
Read more on Reuters
Individual X, 2023-ongoing
Challenging the arrest and arbitrary detention of an individual against whom the subject state has made large demands of payment for release. Widescale abuse of Rule of Law by the state.
Alfred Musema at International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, 2023
Application for early release from life sentence after conviction for the offences of genocide, extermination and crimes against humanity in Rwanda Genocide.
Read more on International Crimes Database
Abuse of human rights in Algeria, 2019
Report was commissioned by an individual whose family member had been arbitrarily detained with related attempts to extort money from the family. Human rights abuse alert Algeria
IBA WCC Inquiry into the Political Prisons of Democratic Republic of North Korea, 2016
Inquiry into the Kwanliso (political prisons) arranged by the IBA North American Office and heard by International Judges.
Report available here
Libyan Asset Recovery Management Office (LARMO), 2023-ongoing
Steven Kay KC leads a team working with LARMO in Tripoli for the phased repatriation for the benefit of the Libyan people of assets that have been stolen, corruptly obtained or frozen under UN sanctions. It is estimated that value of the internationally held frozen assets is over $50bn and that of the stolen assets over $150bn.
Read more:
Libya Herald
The Libya Observer
Libya Review
Libyan Asset Recovery and Management Office
South Sudan Sanctions, 2022-ongoing
UK OFSI licence to represent designated persons to challenge listing for sanctions by UK. Further sanctions challenges submitted to EU, OFAC and UN. In addition advice on arms embargo and sanctions upon agencies in the oil production sector of South Sudan’s economy.
US Iran Sanctions, 2018
Advisory opinion for Channel Isles company upon the effect of US sanctions on a contract involving Iranian airport security.
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