Background

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.

A Professional & Commercially Focused Barrister

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.

First-Hand Commercial Experience

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.

• Adjudication
• Arbitration
• Company Law
• Construction & Engineering Law
• Litigation
• Private Client Legal Advice
• Property Law
• Planning Law
• SME Legal Advice
• Sports Law

To contact or instruct Samuel Okoronkwo, please call 020 3873 1493 and ask for his clerk or e-mail enquiries@project1-l1tlh0kez5.live-website.com

• Public Access / Direct Access Qualified
• Authorised by the Bar Standards Board to Conduct Litigation
• Barrister at Law, Gray’s Inn, London, England
• Post Graduate Diploma in Law
• MSc Project Management & Property Development
• BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying

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