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PROF. OLANREWAJU FAGBOHUN, SAN's Profile

PROF. OLANREWAJU FAGBOHUN, SAN

PROF. OLANREWAJU FAGBOHUN, SAN

  • Position : Founding Partner

Personal Experience and Biography

Professor Olanrewaju .A. Fagbohun, Ph.D, SAN is the founding partner of RouQ and Company. He obtained his LLB (Hons) from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and his LL.M and Ph.D. from the University of Lagos. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1988 and appointed a Notary Public in 2008.
He has a reputation as one of Nigeria's preeminent leadership and institutional governance reform enthusiast. In this regard, he has served in various capacities as Consultant to Government and international organisations such as the Lagos Water Regulatory Commission, European Commission, and Regional Representative Africa Environment Health and Safety Committee of the IBA. He served as the 8th substantive CEO/Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University and was conferred with the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) award in 2019 on account of his effective and rigorous work ethic.

Practice Areas:
Capital Markets
Corporate governance and Commercial transactions
Energy and Natural Resources
Environmental Law
Financial Restructuring and Insolvency
Free Trade Zone Services
Labour and Employment Relations
Shipping & Maritime

Professor Fagbohun has published several articles in leading journals and has co-edited several books both for academia and legal practice. He is a member of several learned association and societies including the Association of International Petroleum Negotiation (AIPN), International Bar Association (IBA), Environmental Law Research Institute (ELRI), Environmental Resources Centre (ERC), and Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar in Austria, amongst others. He is a recipient of several awards. He was a member of the global IBA 18-Man Special Task Force on Climate Change Justice and Human Rights which produced the influential book: Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption (2014).