Category: Legal Services
The firm was established in 2008 for the purpose of catering for the needs of the African and ethnic minorities as the founding partners saw a gaping hole in the provision of legal services to these people who were often not given desired attention by the mainstream firms, who did not understand the peculiar needs and circumstances of the ethnic minorities.
The two Founding Partners Messrs Dele Odusanya and Femi Oyedipe had met previously at Duncan Lewis and Co Solicitors, where they had both risen to the position of Directors and Heads of the Immigration Department.
Dele Odusanya - Managing Partner, Atlantic Solicitors
Dele Odusanya - Managing Partner, Atlantic Solicitors
The firm’s main areas of practice are Immigration Law, Residential and Commercial Conveyancing, Family Law, Landlord and Tenant Law, Employment Law and Civil Litigation. Since its inception, the firm has assisted hundreds of immigrants, especially of the African and ethnic minority stock, to regularise their papers in the UK. The firm continues to use its advocacy skills to fight the cause of its core catchment area.
Mr Odusanya who is the current Managing Partner of the firm qualified as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1991. He moved back to the UK in 1992, where he has been engaged in Law practice to date. He was enrolled as a Solicitor of the Superior Courts of England and Wales in 1999.
Mr Oyedipe has since retired from the firm and is currently holding a political office in Nigeria. Mr Kola Idowu replaced Mr Oyedipe as a Partner in November 2014.
Atlantic Solicitors currently has a staff strength of 20, and has an office in Woolwich London and another in Milton Keynes in the Midlands. It also has an affiliate office in Ikeja, in Nigeria's Lagos State.
The firm aims in the coming years to continue to defend and represent the ethnic minority groups especially with current trends with Brexit and the challenges of the likely scrapping of the Human Rights Act.