OBA OLUFON & CO.
Senior Associate · Recovery & Enforcement
Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria — Senior Associate in the firm’s recovery practice — the post-judgment work that turns a paper order into a banked recovery.
Practice focus
Sectors, in figures
Commercial banks
35+ enforcement files carried
Development finance
6 institutional lender programmes
Trade creditors
22 garnishee actions concluded
Landlords & landholders
14 possession recoveries
Judgment creditors
Median < 9 months to banked outcome
Illustrative figures — updated on engagement.
Adaeze leads the firm’s recovery and enforcement files day-to-day — the disciplined post-judgment work that converts a court order into a banked result.
Her practice is built on a single conviction the firm shares: a judgment is the midpoint of a matter, not its conclusion. The work that actually pays the client happens after the order is made — in the asset tracing, the garnishee sequencing, the attachments and the settlements that close out a file.
Each enforcement file is run on a written timetable. The debtor’s current asset surface is mapped before service of process; garnishee tracks against multiple banks are sequenced deliberately so contestation in one does not stall the others; and every material step is recorded so the client always knows where the recovery stands.
On harder files — recalcitrant debtors, sustained stay applications, or judgments inherited from prior counsel — the posture is straightforward: re-map the assets, re-set the sequence, and run parallel tracks until the recovery clears.
Representative experience
Anonymised in line with the firm’s confidentiality obligations. Specific matters are discussed under engagement.
Recovery · Banking
Ran a rolling enforcement docket for a commercial bank’s recovery unit — sequenced garnishees, attachments and settlement negotiations against defaulting corporate obligors with monthly reporting on file status.
Enforcement · Garnishee
Simultaneous garnishee tracks against multiple deposit-taking institutions, sequenced so contestation on one account did not stall recovery on the others. Judgment sum banked in a single quarter.
Recovery · Property
Statutory notice, possession order and enforcement against a tenant running procedural defences to extend occupation. Possession recovered and the premises re-let inside the client’s operating cycle.
Recovery · Trade credit
Six-month enforcement programme against a defaulting distributor group. Recovery banked at a material fraction of the judgment sum without an appellate stay taking hold.
Enforcement · Institutional
Retained on a rolling docket of enforcement files across sectors, with a monthly recovery-status report and a written next-action risk assessment on every open matter.
Enforcement · Legacy files
Re-mapped a debtor’s current asset surface after a prior counsel had exhausted the obvious tracks, then re-sequenced enforcement over the newly-identified assets to close a long-open file.
A judgment is the midpoint of a matter, not its conclusion. The discipline of enforcement is what separates a paper recovery from a banked one.
Adaeze N. Eze · Senior Associate
Credentials & admission
Admission
Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Role
Carries the firm’s recovery and enforcement files; accountable from intake through to banked outcome.
Notarial
Notarial capacity for diplomatic, corporate and individual instruments.
Conduct
Practice maintained under the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners.
Reach
Representation before federal courts, state high courts and specialised tribunals nationwide.
Cross-border
Coordinated counsel for foreign investors, diplomatic principals and cross-border enforcement.
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