General Civil

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: PAUL IFEANYI OKAFOR IWEZULU

Address: * ******** *****, ********, *****, RM8 3SS;

Telephone: 077********, 074********; Email: *************@*****.***

Profile

I have over five years post enrolment experience in the UK (2008 to date) and over 30 years in the Nigerian jurisdiction as a Barrister and Solicitor, with skills in company commercial practice and administration. I retired as a Director/General Counsel & Company Secretary with John Holt PLC, subsidiary of John Holt + Company (Liverpool) Limited (1995), a publicly quoted company in Nigeria, before relocating back to the UK.

Job history

Consultant

Eamonn Solicitors

March 2012 to September 2012

And February 2014 to date

General civil litigation

Commercial Leasehold

Landlord and Tenant

Property Repossessions and Disrepairs

Immigration

Commercial Agreements

Consumer Protection

Anti-Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime

Renaissance Solicitors LLP

March 2009 to December 2011 As Partner

And February 2013 November 2013 As Consultant

Company formation (turned the practice to LLP) including trading arm of charities to limited by guarantee

Commercial and general civil litigation

Immigration

Will writing (including “mirrored” wills)

Extracting and administering probate

Acting as executor and for executors

Property (leases & lease extensions), housing (repairs and landlord and tenant)

Anti-Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime

Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MRO)

Complaints Officer

Marketing and New business

Consultant

AO Solicitors Ltd

Basildon

April 2013 to December 2013

General civil litigation

Family (divorce and financial settlement)

Partner

TavistockLaw Ltd

September 2012 to November 2012 (Intervention and close down)

Joined on partnership role to undertake

Property

general civil litigation

immigration

Modsons Solicitors

August 2008 to February 2009

Residential conveyancing

Commercial (company advice) and general litigation

Will drafting

Education and Professional Body Memberships

Admitted Barrister & Solicitor Nigeria - August 14 1985

Admitted Solicitor England & Wales 1st August 2008

Nigeria Law School 1984 to 1985

Barrister and Solicitor

Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster University)

LLB Honours (Hons) 1967 to 1969

Fellow Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (FCIS) Associate Institute of Chartered Bankers (ACIB)

Sundridge Park Management Centre –Senior Executive Course 1985

Lagos Business School – Corporate Governance, Crimes & Ethics -1996

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