Bayo Adaralegbe
Dr. Adaralegbe is admitted to practice law in Nigeria. He has an LL.M (with Distinction) in Petroleum Law & Petroleum Policy and a Ph.D in International Investment Law from the CEPMLP, University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to this he obtained an LL.B (with honours) from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). He is Fellow of the Energy Institute, United Kingdom (FEI, the first Nigerian Legal Practitioner to be so honoured), a full member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) as well as a member of the International Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law. In addition to his legal background, Bayo also has some business training having taken Corporate Finance Management, Financial Accounting, and Strategic Business Planning courses (to mention just a few) to qualify as a Chartered Secretary and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries & Administrators, United Kingdom(FCIS). He is also Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom (FCIArb) and was appointed a Notary Public by the Chief Justice of the Federation.
Bayo’s diverse professional background and training in law, business and policy allows him to regularly advise the public and private sectors in Nigeria’s Upstream and Downstream Petroleum Industry. He is presently leading a team of lawyers that is advising the House of Representatives on legal as well as policy aspects of the Petroleum Industry Bill and has been directly involved in major transactions (especially transactions involving foreign investments, with special focus on the energy industry) in a number of capacities, including their dispute settlement. Bayo has also served as an expert witness in an Aliens Torts Claims Act initiated litigation in a Federal District Court in the United States. Earlier on in his career Bayo was Legal Adviser and Company Secretary in a bank.
Bayo speaks regularly at international and local conferences and has published articles in leading international journals in the world in his areas of expertise, including Journal of World Energy Law and Business(JWELB, joint publication of Oxford University Press and AIPN), Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law(publication of the IBA), International Energy Law Review Journal(publication of Sweet & Maxwell), Arbitration International Journal and Journal of International Arbitration(publications of Kluwer Law International), the Arbitrator(publication of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK), and Journal of World Investment & Trade. He also has a Chapter contribution in a book Infrastructure Projects: Current Financing Trends (ICFAI University Press, 2006).
Bayo also has editorial responsibilities. He is a pioneer member of the editorial team of JWELB, and is part of the editorial teams of Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL), Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) and the Nigerian Monthly Law Reports (NMLR). He is also Energy Law columnist of Thisday newspaper, one of Nigeria’s widest circulating daily newspapers.
View His Articles in International and Local Journals
View His Paper Presentations at International and Local Conferences
Practice Areas:
Energy and Extractive Sector
Foreign Investments
Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.