Emmanuel Bassey is a seasoned legal practitioner whose knowledge and experience cuts across various areas of commercial and corporate law such as banking, maritime law, arbitration, corporate governance, receivership, etc. He also has research interest in international law and climate change.

He has advised individual and corporate clients in various high value transactions and litigations, including, but not limited to a multi-million dollar dispute with a multi-national oil company over an aircraft purchase agreement, an arbitration against an aircraft servicing company over a multi-million naira dispute over an aircraft service and maintenance agreement, multi-billion naira debt recovery and receivership cases on behalf of AMCON and commercial banks in Nigeria. He has appeared in and drafted pleadings and briefs before various trial and appellate courts in Nigeria and has also prepared legal opinions for use by individuals, corporate clients, as well as in proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales.