Abdulai, Taiwo & Co

Corporate/Commercial; Projects and Infrastructure

Joint Managing Partner and the Chair: Projects and Infrastructure; Corporate/Commercial. He has a strong and reliable reputation for advising on Nigerian business regulatory issues, and is author of several books on commercial law practice in Nigeria. He has acted as the firm’s team leader in several cross border M&A; PPP Projects; and Privatization. He is consistently recommended as a leading lawyer in his field by all the major international lawyer/law firm rating agencies in the world.

Co-founding name partner of the firm. Previously associate at David Garrick & Co., and State Counsel, Lagos State Ministry of Justice; Chairman, Legal Committee of the National Council on Privatisation (2017-2018); Founding Vice-Chairman, NBA Section on Business Law (2004-2009); Chairman, National Working Group on the Review of Investment Laws of Nigeria (2007-2009). Life Patron and former Vice-President, Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce; Honorary Member, Nigeria Association of Professional Educators (2006); Trustee, Timothy Adeola Odutola Foundation.

English

Body of the Congress of Fellows, Centre for International Legal Studies (Salzburg); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; International Bar Association; International Trademark Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Nigerian Bar Association; International Alliance of Practicing Lawyers; Notary Public.

University of Lagos (LL.B Hons., 1972) Nigerian Law School (Certificate of the Council of Legal Education, 1973); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (MCI.Arb 1999); Certified PPP Training Programs:

(i)       Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) and Agence Francaise de Development (AFD): “Private Public Partnerships and Project Finance”, 2008.

(ii)      Jeff & O’Brien Training International “Public Private Partnership – Concession and Financing of Infrastructure Projects”, 2008.

Member, Ikoyi Club 1938; Member, Metropolitan Club.