Momoh Kadiri, LL.M., FCIArb

Momoh is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and is a commercial dispute resolution lawyer focusing on International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation in diverse industry sectors: energy, oil & gas, power generation & distribution, construction projects, shipping, international trade, corporate & commercial, and international law. Momoh has vast experience of complex issues that often arise in disputes involving investors and sovereign states, as well as state-controlled entities; typically, state immunity, enforcement and jurisdictional challenges.

Representative experience:

• Currently representing Respondents in ongoing ICC arbitration seated in London – concerning disputes arising from construction projects in Nigeria.
• Successful enforcement of an ICC arbitration award seated in London against a sovereign West African state.
• Obtaining court-related final charging order and third party debt orders against defendant’s assets within the English jurisdiction, in aid of arbitration enforcement.
• Securing multiple and concurrent arbitration enforcement orders against respondent state, its embassy, state-controlled entities, and third party banks.
• Successfully resisting and defeating costs related application/argument brought by a leading international law firm and its client bank – following a contested High Court hearing in London.
• Successful registration of ICC arbitration award as judgment of the English court, paving way for successful enforcement and recovery.
• Ongoing representation of an international logistics company in High Court litigation proceedings in London against a leading international logistics entity in relation to claims for payment of hire and ancillary charges, based on English law contact of carriage for movement of cargo along the Ural Caspian Canal (from China to Kazakhstan, en route Russia).
• Successfully obtained summary judgment as well as order for specific performance in London High Court litigation in favour of claimant company arising from a substantial real estate development project dispute in London, which arose as a result of disagreement between the parties as to the legal effect and/or validity of the underlying joint venture agreement and other interrelated agreements.
• Successfully resisted defendant’s application to HM Land Registry; preventing attempted sale/refinancing of the development loan between defendant and its lenders.
• Representing claimants in litigation proceedings in London arising from a dispute as to the proper interpretation of a trust deed.