OUR LAWYERS
Nasiru Deen Alhadi — Senior Partner
Areas: Litigation & advocacy; commercial & corporate; real estate and conveyancing; succession; employment & labour; company secretarial; arbitration.
Profile snapshot: Detail-oriented, results-driven practitioner with wide courtroom experience and strong transactional support. Leads on complex filings, due diligence and drafting (writs, originating processes, pleadings and motions).
Background highlights: Senior Partner (2010–present) across predecessor and current firm. Earlier roles at Roberts & Partners (Pupil Barrister) and Fitzgerald & Associates (Junior Associate). Arbitrator; Member, Sierra Leone Bar Association.
Education & admissions: Barrister-at-Law, Sierra Leone Law School (2005–2006) • LLB (Hons), Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (2001–2005) • ADR Certificate (2011)
Len Gordon-Harris Jnr — Senior Partner
Areas: Commercial & corporate; banking & finance (debentures, mortgages, guarantees); company secretarial; infrastructure & concessions; telecoms; litigation.
Profile snapshot: Acts for banks, infrastructure operators and growth companies; drafts and negotiates complex finance and commercial instruments; experienced litigator for financial institutions and corporates.
Selected experience: Retained solicitor to multiple institutions including banks, port/terminal operators, telecoms and funds. Drafted and reviewed concession, licence and finance agreements; conducted buyer/seller due diligence; company secretary roles. Litigation for banks, telecoms and international contractors.
Education & admissions: Barrister-at-Law, Sierra Leone Law (Bar) School (2006–2007) • LLB studies, University of Wolverhampton (Holborn College)
Jennifer Beoku-Betts — Senior Partner
Areas: General litigation & advocacy; commercial, company & employment; banking & finance; telecoms; land & mining; family; wills & probate; human rights; company secretarial & governance.
Profile snapshot: Former Head Legal & Company Secretary at Standard Chartered Bank (SL), bringing first-class corporate governance, board advisory and regulatory experience to complex mandates.
Career highlights: Senior Partner, ABBGH LAW (2021–present). Head Legal & Company Secretary, Standard Chartered Bank (SL) (2014–2021) — led repatriation and digitisation of the share register, delivering significant cost savings. Legal Officer, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Residual Special Court (Freetown & The Hague) — contributed to landmark appeal judgments on forced marriage, use of child soldiers and attacks on UN peacekeepers.
Education & admissions: LLM, Human Rights & Democratisation in Africa, University of Pretoria • LLB (Hons), University of London • Admitted to the Sierra Leone Bar (Utter Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor)