Chief Bolaji Ayorinde
- Our CHIEF BOLAJI AYORINDE SAN, OFR of BA LAW LLP is now acknowledged as the 2021 leading Cross-Border Litigation Lawyer of the year in Nigeria by the Prestigious Acquisition International in its 2021 leading Adviser Awards.
- CHIEF BOLAJI AYORINDE SAN, FCArb, OFR. Called to the Nigerian Bar 1986. Education- Government College Ibadan, International School Ibadan, University College Buckland, Oxfordshire, Holborn Law Tutors, Roupell Street, London. Member Nigerian Bar Association, International Bar Association, Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce, Nigerian Belgian Commercial Centre. Areas of Practice- General Civil Litigation, Commercial litigation, Company Law, Property and Land Law, Banking, Insurance & Liquidation law, Arbitration, Maritime and Shipping Law. Criminal Defense, Probate, Estate and Family Law. He is the author of various publications amongst which include: “Securing and Enforcing Maritime Claims: Juriscope 1st Edition-2001 Series”, “Wills and Testamentary Disposition”, “Sovereign Immunity and the Trials of Augosto Pinochet”, “Judicial Precedent, Law Reporting and the Need for Regulation”, “Judicial Bias and Justice Delivery”, A Commentary on the Independence of Electoral Umpire in Nigeria”, “Boko Haram, Terrorism and Fundamental Human Rights; the Challenges that concern us”, “Criminal Justice System in Nigeria”, “53, Years after Independence: the many facaes of Judicial Riot”, “Nigerian-Any Strength in Adversity”, “A Reformatory Approach to the Criminal Justice System in Nigeria”, and “The Rashidi Yekini Case and the State of Mental Health Law in Nigeria”, The Symbolism And Legality Of State Constitutions In Nigeria”, The Legality And Efficacy Of Regional Vigilantes”. Arbitration in Criminal Justice System”, The Scale of Arbitrator’s Fees. The Practitioners’
- Appointed Notary Public (1994). Elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (2005), Pro-Chancellor Chairman Governing Council Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State (2007-2011) Member Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy (2011). In June 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the Governing Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria by the President.
- Chief Bolaji Ayorinde SAN, FCArb is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, Nigeria and he is currently the Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Aviation. He is involved in major arbitration and alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
- Bolaji Ayorinde continues to receive instructions in very high profile cross border disputes such as the P&ID/Federal Government of Nigeria Arbitration, the international Arbitration over the Mambila Power Project Construction, Global Trade and Augusta/Leonardo of Italy Multidollar dispute over outstanding Commissions due on Military Equipment supplied to the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, the Els Doorhein claim against Arik Air amongst others.
- In September of 2014, he was conferred with the National Honour of “Officer of the Federal Republic” of Nigeria, [O.F.R] by Former President Goodluck Jonathan.
- In November 2014 he was appointed as a member of the Nigeria Bar Association National Executive Committee (NBA-NEC) and he currently chairs the Nigerian Bar Association Dispute Resolution Committee and the Committee on the Remodeling of the NBA Complex in Abuja.
