Keating Chambers

Abdul Jinadu was called to the Bar in 1995 and has been a practising barrister and arbitrator in Keating Chambers since 1996, specialising in construction, engineering and energy disputes, and domestic and international arbitration. He has acted for the full spectrum of clients including construction and engineering companies, government organisations, corporations, public utilities, local authorities, consultancies, architects and engineers. He is currently instructed on behalf of the Bereaved Survivors and Residents as a specialist construction counsel on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

He has extensive experience of a wide range of disputes and advisory work relating to infrastructure projects. Significant cases have involved oil and gas onshore and offshore facilities, solar power plants, aluminium smelting plants, pharmaceutical plants, hospitals, mining and marine construction.

He has an extensive international practice both as counsel and as arbitrator acting recently as counsel in respect of a number of disputes in several jurisdictions in the Middle East and as sole arbitrator and party appointed arbitrator in respect of major projects internationally including in Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Turkmenistan. Recent appointments include as sole arbitrator in a Tanzanian arbitration and party appointed arbitrator in a £400m Nigerian dispute. His arbitrator appointments have included ICC and DIFC-LCIA appointments as well as ad hoc arbitrations. Abdul Jinadu is bi-lingual in English and Yoruba and maintains significant contacts with his home country of Nigeria. He has well developed contacts in the legal profession and in the construction and oil and gas sectors in Nigeria. He is Secretary Pro Tem of the Society of Construction Law Nigeria. He is a member of the Court of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre, a member of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, a member of the Advisory Board of Africa Construction Law, and has been appointed to the Directory of African International Arbitrators. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK and of the Botswana Institute of Arbitrators.

Abdul has “a strong adjudication element to his practice” and is a TECBAR accredited adjudicator. In addition to acting as an adjudicator and giving papers and seminars on the subject, he has acted for clients at all stages of the adjudication process (advising, drafting, and representation at enforcement proceedings) and at all levels up to the Court of Appeal.

He is a chapter author for Keating on Construction Contracts, Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering, Keating on NEC and Oil and Gas Contracts – Principles and Practice. He has lectured on a wide range of subjects to a wide range of professional bodies. He has written articles on a wide range of construction law related subjects.

Qualified 1995; Middle Temple; TECBAR-accredited adjudicator 2004; public access training 2004.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) Technology and Construction Bar Association (TECBAR) Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) Society of Construction Law CIArb (UK and Nigeria) Lagos Court of Arbitration Directory of African International Arbitrators (DAIA)

University of Cambridge (MA; LLM).

Abdul has written papers on adjudication and professional negligence. He is an avid Tottenham Hotspurs fan and enjoys military history.