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Bayo Ojo & Co

 

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Organisation
Bayo Ojo & Co
I practise/work in
  • International Arbitration
  • International Alternative Dispute Resolution
Profile Photo (Headshot or Logo)
Title (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr)
Mr
How you'd like your name to appear in the directory
Bayo Ojo, SAN, CON
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Country of Birth
Nigeria
Nationalities
Nigerian
Languages
English
Individual Member Profession (see note below)
  • Arbitrator
  • Counsel
  • Mediator/Conciliator
  • Arbitration/ADR Expert Witness
Number of Cases as Counsel in international arbitration/ADR
20+
Number of Cases as Sole Arbitrator in international arbitration
20+
Number of Cases as Co-Arbitrator in international arbitration
20+
Number of Cases as International Tribunal Chair
6-20
Number of Cases as International Mediator/Conciliator
20+
Number of cases as Arbitration/ADR Expert Witness
  • 1-5
Areas of Speciality
  • Agency
  • Competition
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Corporate Law / M&A
  • Distribution / Franchising
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Engineering
  • Entertainment & Media
  • Environment
  • Finance & Banking
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Commercial Disputes
  • International Investment Disputes
  • Investment law
  • Joint Venture
  • Maritime
  • Public International Law
  • Real Estate
  • Retail & Consumer Products
  • Sales & Purchases
  • Shipping & Commodities
  • Technologies
  • Telecommunications
  • Transport
Degrees/Qualifications, Institutions and Dates Obtained
LL.B University of Lagos Nigeria June 1977
LL.M London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London September 1982
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London 1998
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb) May 2002 CIArb London
Fellow of the Institute of Construction Industry Arbitrators of Nigeria
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC)
List Arbitration/ADR Panels you belong to
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
American Arbitration Association ICDR
China International Economic and Trade Arbitration (CITEAC)
Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA)
Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC)
Chinese International Commercial Court (CICC)
Professional Experience (Job Title, Organisation and Dates)
Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of Nigeria
Past President of the Nigeria Bar Association
Past President of the African Users' Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Past President of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA)
Past Member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Past member of the Panel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
Past member of the Panel of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
Past Member of the United Nations International Law Commission, Geneva, Switzerland
Past member of Council of the International Bar Association Section on Energy and Natural Resources
Past Alternate Chairperson of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris, France
Past visiting lecturer in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Biography
Chief Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and past President of the AfAA, was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1978 after graduating from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. He obtained LL.M from the London School of Economics, University of London and later got admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Since then he has been in active Commercial law, International Law, Litigation, Mediation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice. He has acted as sole Arbitrator, member of arbitration panels, and as Counsel in numerous domestic and international arbitrations at the ICC, ICSID, AAA, PCA and the LCIA over the last forty years. He has also acted as expert witness in international arbitrations including ICSID. He has mediated on several disputes as well.

He is a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch. Ojo was until recently a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) Geneva Switzerland, Council member of the Section on Energy and Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association, a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, Washington, DC, a member of the Panel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands, Alternate Chairman of UNESCO Appeals Board in Paris, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, President of the African Users’ Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC).

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Journal of Arbitration and Mediation (NJAM) and African Journal of Arbitration and Mediation (AJAM). He is the co-author of The Handbook of Arbitration and ADR Practice in Nigeria.

During his tenure as Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of Nigeria, he pushed for the review of the Nigerian Arbitration and Conciliation Act which was eventually passed as an Act on Parliament as the Nigerian Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023. He is a recipient of the National Honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).
Legal Background
  • Civil Law
  • Common Law
  • European Law
  • International Law
Qualified in (specify jurisdiction(s))
Nigeria and England and Wales
Types of agreements from which disputes in your practice most frequently arise
  • Agency/Distribution
  • Charter parties
  • Concessions
  • Employment
  • Energy Pricing
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Loan
  • Partnership
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Sale of Business
  • Sale of Goods
  • Share Purchase/Joint Venture
  • Shipbuilding
  • Tender Processes
List arbitration/ADR articles, book chapters, books and where published
Co-Author of Handbook on Arbitration And ADR Practice in Nigeria. Book published by Lexis Nexis
Editor in Chief of African Journal of Arbitration and Mediation (AJAM) and
Nigerian Journal of Arbitration and Mediation (NJAM)
Website Address
www.bayoojoandco.org



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