Litigation/Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) · Board & Governance Practitioner · Real estate Consultancy/Dealmaker
Oma Lynda Ekwem is a legal practitioner, negotiator, and business strategist with over 20 years’ experience spanning litigation, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and real estate advisory. As Principal Partner of OAA Law in Lekki, Lagos, she leads a full-service practice that brings legal rigour and commercial instinct to the table in equal measure — advising individuals, entrepreneurs, and corporate clients on the deals, disputes, and decisions that shape their businesses.
Her career has moved between courtroom and boardroom. She began in litigation-focused chambers, including Afe Babalola (SAN) & Co between 2005 and 2008, handling matters ranging from fundamental human rights and constitutional law to commercial litigation and criminal prosecution. She then moved to Adedipe & Adedipe (SAN) & Co. between 2008 and 2011, where she handled matters ranging from admiralty and maritime law to fundamental human rights and election petitions. From there, she transitioned into corporate legal leadership between 2012 and 2016 within Nigeria's oil and gas sector — including serving as Corporate Services/Legal Manager at Suffolk Petroleum Services Ltd and Amazon Energy Ltd — before returning to private practice with Adeniyi Akintola (SAN) & Co from 2016 to 2018, and subsequently founding OAA Law in Lekki, Lagos, where she has been Principal Partner since 2018.
Along the way, she was part of the team that negotiated the statutory requirement for oil and gas companies to pay 1% of contract value to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) — successfully persuading International Oil Companies to absorb the cost rather than pass it on to contractors. The result reflected her broader approach: protect the client's position through strategic negotiation before it ever reaches a courtroom.
That same instinct now shapes her real estate advisory work, where she guides clients through property acquisition, due diligence, and transaction structuring with an eye for the legal and commercial risk most people miss.
Oma Lynda is a Member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAN), an Associate of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (NICArb), Member, Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN), and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC). She holds an LL.B from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and an LL.M, UNILAG.
