Adeola Oyinlade & Co. is a full-service law firm with its head office in Lagos, Nigeria that offers a variety of legal services to a vast range of national and foreign clients. Practice areas include international contracts drafting and review, international distribution and foreign agency agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign investment, due diligence, intellectual property such as trademark licensing and registration of patents and copyrights, company registration and secretarial services, entertainment and sports law, immigration, cross-border litigation strategy, and more.
Adeola Oyinlade, the firm’s principal partner, practicing law for many years, has extensive knowledge and substantial professional qualifications and has received several national and global recognitions. The legal team is comprised of several highly experienced lawyers who offer comprehensive litigation, advisory, and other support services designed to meet the needs of diverse clients.
Adeola Oyinlade & Co. is committed to providing competent, innovative, cost-effective, and well-timed responsive services. The firm serves individuals, small businesses, public and private companies, foreign law firms and international consultancy firms, intergovernmental organizations and foreign governments’ agencies, multinationals, financial institutions, universities, international charities, technology companies, and manufacturers.
Adeola Oyinlade & Co is the International Law Firm of the Year in Nigeria - 2022 of Corporate INTL Global Awards.
Additional Areas of Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Constitutional & Statutory Interpretation; Shipping; International Finance & Foreign Investment; Oil & Gas, Energy, Natural Resources, Infrastructural Development & Project Finance; Labour; Environmental Law; Banking & Insolvency; Capital Markets & Securities; Sports, Communication and Competitions Law; Telecommunication & ICT.
Languages: English, French, Pidgin and Yoruba.
Adeola Oyinlade advises a wide range of national and foreign clients on international legal matters. He has advised several companies, intergovernmental organizations, foreign governments’ agencies, multinationals, financial institutions, universities, international charities, and technology companies and a vast range of manufacturers in over a decade. He also serves clients from individual through small businesses to public and private companies, foreign law firms and international consultancy firms while providing litigation, advisory and other support services.
Adeola is the Principal Partner of Adeola Oyinlade & Co, a leading law firm known for providing competent, innovative, cost-effective and well-timed responsive services from the commercial hub of Lagos. He has received several national and global recognitions including the 2018 International Bar Association (IBA) Human Rights Lawyer of the Year and 2021 American Bar Association (ABA) International Human Rights Award.
Area of Practice
International contracts drafting and review, international distribution agreement, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign agency agreements, foreign investment, due diligence services, trademark licensing, registration of patent and copyrights, company registration and company secretarial services, entertainment and sports law, immigration law and cross-border litigation strategy.
As international law expert, Adeola has graced the African Union, the United Nations organizations’ UNESCO, and UNDP, UN-HABITAT speaking platforms across many countries of the world in the thematic areas of law, social innovation, human rights and rule of law. He has proffer solutions to humanitarian law issues in many African countries including sovereign immunity, state-to-state obligations and enforcement, treaty interpretation.