AREAS OF EXPERTISE Advising Regulators Arbitration Banking & Finance Civil Consumer Credit Consumer Rights Contract Defending Professionals Professional Discipline Regulatory

Tope is an experienced advocate, appearing regularly in various courts and tribunals. She specialises in professional discipline, regulation and international arbitration.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a dual qualified barrister (England and Wales and Nigeria), Tope acts as arbitrator and counsel in disputes. She is a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre’s panel of neutrals (LACIAC), the CIArb’s Business Arbitration Scheme and she receives appointments as an adjudicator under CEDR’s RICS and CISAS schemes.

Tope has broad expertise in professional disciplinary work, particularly regarding matters before the NMC, ACCA, ICAEW and the BSB. She conducts lengthy substantive hearings in addition to appearing at the interim order and interim order review stage. Her regulatory practice includes financial services. As a former Financial Ombudsman, she has extensive experience of retail banking disputes, Consumer Credit Act matters and financial mis-selling claims.

Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)Arbitral WomenBritish Nigeria Law Forum (BNLF)Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre (LACIAC)

B.L Nigerian Law SchoolFellow, Chartered Institute of ArbitratorsBar Vocational Course, BPPLLB Law, Brunel University