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Olasupo Shasore is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria 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.

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; 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, former pioneer 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).