Commercial Law Firm of the Year Nigeria

Firm Profile

Chief G.O. Sodipo & Co. is a major Nigerian firm formed in the mid-nineteen sixties with a broad based range of legal services with experience and effective connections with foreign firms in many parts of the world to handle transactions of national and international scope.

Our clients include individuals, corporate and governmental agencies. We give advice which enhance sound analysis and decisions which shape the formulation aid implementation of various transactions. We offer solutions in a speedy and cost effective way either through litigation or other alternative dispute resolution methods such as arbitration and mediation. We understudy the nature of the business environment of our clients. This enables us understand commercial considerations underlying transactions which our clients are involved and the perceptions of issues by our clients including their objectives, priorities and needs, whilst simultaneously equipping us to identify and mitigate any associated risk. We always adopt business oriented, fresh and imaginative but pragmatic approaches to issues based on a foundation of technical excellence in the law and a depth of commercial experience. Given the freshness of our ideas, our team of consultants and the friendly atmosphere in the firm, we are able to maintain a leading competitiveness necessary for our clients and the transactions we handle.

Bankole Sodipo Ph.D Areas of Expertise

• Corporate Commercial, • Aviation and Shipping, • Solid Minerals (Oil & Gas) • Intellectual Property • Telecommunications and Computer Law,

• Real Property • Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Media, Entertainment & Franchising

• Administrative and Public Law • Environmental Law • Employment • Debt Recovery and Factoring • Asset Finance and Leasing • Banking & Finance

Contact

27/29, King George V Road, Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria. P. O. Box 3134, Marina, Lagos.

Tel: +234-1-2637738, 8503454, Fax: +234-1-2636477

Email: b.sodipo@gosodipo.com website: www.gosodipo.com

Bankole Sodipo, Barrister and a Solicitor and the Managing Partner with the Law firm of Chief G.O. Sodipo & Co. Lagos. He was a member of the 1988 Copyright Drafting Law Committee that prepared the Nigerian Copyright Act 1988. He has contributed to teaching the Masters programme at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London and is a visiting guest lecturer at the Nigeria Law School.. He is a regular contributor to leading international journals. His major publications includes a book on Nigeria’s Foreign Investment Law and Intellectual Property Rights and a book on Piracy and Counterfeiting: GATT-TRIPS and Developing Countries. He has also worked with leading firm of solicitors and at Barristers’ chambers in London. He organizes and speaks at conferences in Nigeria and internationally; these include the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Copyright Society of America; the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the University of Maastrict. He is a visiting guest lecturer at the University College, London; an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Intellectual Property Institute, Queen Mary & Westfield College and a Consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization. He handles contentious and non-¬contentious matters. He is the President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Nigeria which is the local organization that liases between the government and the private sector in lobbying for reforms in the administration, adjudication and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. He was a member of the committee that drafted Nigeria’s Intellectual Property Policy. He is currently a Corporate law Professor at Babcock University, Nigeria

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011

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