About SS
Lawyer & Policy Expert
Olasupo Shasore is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a founding partner at Africa Law Practice NG & Co, a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria. With over thirty-six years of experience, he is well known for his representation of multinationals and state sovereigns in many disputes in the Supreme and Appellate courts of Nigeria.
He is currently Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council (CWEIC) Nigeria Advisory Board and a member of CWEIC International Advisory Board; Chairman of Lagos Theatre Festival (LTF) Foundation LTD/GTE inaugurated by the British Council in Nigeria. Trustee Legacy 1995 Historical and Environmental Interest Group, Trustee Nigerian Legal History Society and Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society
He was appointed as a member/secretary of the Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce, a “Member Steering Committee of the National Infrastructure Masterplan”, and a resource person in Nigeria’s Solid Minerals Regulator in connection with the “Roadmap for the Growth and Development of the Nigerian Mining Industry”.
Professionally he is frequently instructed as lead counsel in diverse commercial and public regulatory sector disputes. Shasore is also an adviser on Energy, Electricity, and Infrastructure transactions. Shasore is referred to as a ‘seasoned arbitrator and strategic litigator’ by “Who’s Who Legal”; a best-in-class research publication of the leading lawyers and experts in the world. He has acted for sovereign, sub-national, and private international parties in international commercial and investment arbitration and litigation. He has significant experience in investor-state arbitration and is a leading African counsel with ICSID hearing experience, and other investment-related disputes; he is frequently appointed arbitrator or expert on Nigerian Law; Trade Shipping & and maritime law, and advises on risk in mining and energy law. He has consulted on reforms in the electric power sector for states and multilateral funding institutions. He is a Fellow and Tutor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a former member of the Section on Business Law Council of the Nigerian Bar Association, and past Chairman, Arbitration and ADR Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Section on Business Law, Co- Founder & founding vice president of the Maritime Arbitrators Association of Nigeria and Former President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration [LCA]. He was admitted as an arbitrator Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre in Turkey and as a Pioneer member of The Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration Africa User Group; the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts (PRIME) and its Advisory Committee; and a former board member of International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA).
Historian & Author
Although well known for his defence of multi nationals and state sovereigns in many disputes in the Supreme and Appellate courts in Nigeria he is notably an investigative historian and author. He has served as Chairman of the Lagos History Committee that produced the seminal work “The History of Lagos; from earliest times” with some of the country’s leading academic historians.
After serving in law enforcement and public administration, as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State 2007-2011. He made more time for his part time research and writing. Resulting in the award winning narrative history works: “Possessed- A history of the Crown Colony of Lagos” (Q Books 2014) “King & Colony – A short history of the British Possession of Lagos” (Q Books 2015) “A Platter of Gold – Making of Nigeria” (1906 – 1960) (Q Books 2016)
Shasore is a Member of the World History Association, Lagos Studies Association and African Studies Association.
He serves on several private and statutory boards and is a frequently consulted Trade Law & Maritime expert, along with the continental firm ALP NG & Company, he has been a resource and champion for the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA)
And an advisor on Energy & Infrastructure project’s as well as an expert witness on Nigerian law at foreign/international tribunals.
He is host of the periodic podcast ‘AfirQatlantic’: a history of history and African diaspora with Olasupo Shasore
Family
Married to Gbemi a publisher and film maker, with three Children