Port Harcourt
26 Aba Road, P.O. Box 12636, Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, Nigeria
Telephone: (+234-84) 464514-5
Facsimile: (+234-84) 464516
E-mail: portharcourt@aelex.com

Lagos
7th Floor, Marble House, 1 Kingsway Road,
Falomo Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
Telephone: (+234-1) 4617321-3, 2793367-8, 4736296, 7406533, 4799312
Facsimile: (+234-1) 4617092
E-mail: lagos@aelex.com

Abuja
4th Floor, Adamawa Plaza,
Off Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, FCT Abuja,
Telephone: (+234-9) 6723568, 8704187, 07098808416
Facsimile:
E-mail: abuja@aelex.com

Accra
2nd Floor, Vanguard House, 21 Independence Avenue, Accra,
P.M.B. CT72, Accra, Ghana
Telephone: (+233 302) 224828; 224845-6
Facsimile: (+233 302) 224824
E-mail: accra@aelex.com

Education
LL.B (Hons) University of Ife 1974
LL.M Harvard Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1977

Bar Admissions
Barrister and Solicitor, Nigeria 1975
Solicitor, England and Wales 2004

Practice Areas

• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Dispute Resolution
• Business Turnaround and Corporate Insolvency
• Competition Law and Policy

Profile
Appointed Notary Public in 1986 and elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2001 [only the 5th woman to be so elevated].

Member of the Body of Benchers since 1999 and elevated to Life Bencher in March 2007.

Nominated and voted as the Most Outstanding female legal practitioner of the year 2007 by Financial Standard Newspaper and Women Entrepreneurs African Network 

Has represented parties as counsel in several arbitration proceedings and acted in numerous disputes as either - party appointed Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Presiding Arbitrator. Regularly lectures on arbitration law and procedure and has been approved by the Chartered Institute as a Tutor at the Associate/ Entry Course level. Also acts as visiting Faculty at the Centre for African Law and Development Studies, Lagos where she lectures on arbitration and Civil Procedural issues.

1st Vice President (2002/04) of the Nigerian Bar Association, and has served the Bar Association as Assistant National Secretary (1979/80), Secretary Lagos Branch (1984/85, 1985/86), National Treasurer (1990/91, 1991/92), and. represented the Nigerian Bar Association at the Consultative Assembly on the Reform of Company Law in Nigeria (1989). She was appointed the 1st Vice Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in June 2009.

Professional Associations
Member, National Judiciary Committee of the NBA (2001); Member, of the Editorial Committee that produced the Companies and Allied Matters Act in 1990; Member, of Lagos State Government Committee appointed to review and draft new High Court Civil Procedure Rules 2004. Funke is a life member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA); Member, of the International Bar Association's Legal Practice Division (Arbitration and Business Organisations Committees), Professional and Public Interest Law Division (Law Firm Management Committee. She is a Council Member of the Professional and Public Interest Law Division and the Deputy Secretary General [Africa West] for the IBA. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK (2002) as well as a member of the Nigerian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member,Practice Management and Technology Committee Section on Legal Practice Nigerian Bar Association(2005); Member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers since April 1999 and Life Bencher since March 2007.