Adeola Agunbiade-Adeyemi

Adeola Agunbiade-Adeyemi is a Senior Associate in the Litigation and ADR Practice group of Banwo & Ighodalo, focusing on Dispute Resolution. She has regularly been engaged as a dispute resolution practitioner in the resolution of complex domestic and cross-border disputes.

Her experience covers industry sectors such as energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, telecommunications, fast-moving consumer goods and internet commerce, and subject matters including shareholders’ disputes and shareholders’ minority protection actions, contractual breaches, regulatory infractions and employment disputes.

Adeola has advised sophisticated commercial clients through the entire dispute resolution cycle, from commencement of proceedings to judgments or awards and enforcements. She successfully acted for a notable indigenous oil exploration and production company in a dispute giving rise to several arbitration and litigation matters pertaining to the funding and operation of a marginal field. She also recently represented the Zambian affiliate of one of Africa’s most diversified business conglomerates in arbitration proceedings conducted in Nigeria under the Nigerian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, with respect to a combined claim and counter-claim of approximately USD6,500,000.

In 2013, she undertook a commercial litigation secondment at a leading commercial law firm in London under the International Lawyers for Africa scheme. She was awarded a scholarship for the 2020 Africa Arbitration Academy and is a director of the Africa Construction Law initiative. She is passionate about writing on legal issues and has published in several law reviews and journals.

Adeola holds an LL.B from Obafemi Awolowo University, a BL from the Nigerian Law School, and an LLM from the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Lagos Court of Arbitration.