A legal practitioner based in Lagos. Since his call to bar, he has been engaged in active practice of law. His experience cuts across transaction documentation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution particularly in the areas of corporate, commercial and admiralty law. He has attended and distinguished himself in series of courses both locally and internationally.
Seyilayo Ojo attended Obafemi Awolowo University where he obtained an LL. B (Hons.), and subsequently attended University College London where he obtained his LL.M in International Business Law. He was the recipient of the 2004 Victor Folsom Fellowship/ Scholarship from the Centre for American and International Law, Texas, U.S.A., where he attended the Academy for American and International Law. He has also appeared before the various tribunals – private and governmental – as well as trial and appellate courts in Nigeria and is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School, Pan African University.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom, an Accredited Mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), a member of the Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Centre for American and International Law, U.S.A; a member of the Panel of Neutrals, Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse and Nigeria Communications Commission. Seyilayo Ojo is also an associate Member, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Centre for American and International Law, USA.
