Kosisochi Vanessa Uzoho

Kosisochi advises on corporate and commercial disputes, with experience spanning banking and finance litigation, energy disputes, and regulatory advisory matters. Her practice also includes advising on financial regulation, capital raising transactions, and corporate governance issues. She has acted for financial institutions, multinational companies, and corporate clients on complex commercial disputes and high-value transactions involving novel questions of law, contractual interpretation, regulatory compliance, and security enforcement.

Kosisochi graduated from the Nigerian Law School with First Class Honours, ranking third overall among 5,704 candidates and was recognised as the Best Graduating Female Student and Best Student in Criminal Litigation. She has also received national recognition in advocacy, debating, and adjudication, reflecting a strong foundation in legal analysis, written advocacy, and oral argument.

• Advised and represented a multilateral financial institution in a US$25 million cross-border lending dispute, addressing contractual interpretation, repayment currency obligations, exclusive jurisdiction clauses, and questions of sovereign and institutional immunity.

• Advising on the regulatory and structural framework for a private note programme for a Nigerian corporate issuer, including security and transaction structuring, eligibility requirements and tax considerations.

• Represented a leading Nigerian energy company in defending claims exceeding ₦41 billion arising from an alleged oil spill, addressing issues of causation, liability, valuation methodology and assessment of damages.

• Represented a major Nigerian bank in proceedings relating to the restriction of accounts implicated in suspected fraudulent activity exceeding US$5 million, involving the legal basis for the restrictions and applicable fraud investigation procedures.

• Represented a major Nigerian bank in proceedings concerning approximately 300 million shares pledged as security for lending facilities, including issues relating to competing security interests and priority between secured creditors.