Contact Info

Foluso Olusanya

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Position:

Associate

Expertise:

Litigation.
Taxation.
Insolvency.

CAREER / HONORS

• Junior Achievement Scholar for the Venture in Management Program (ViMP) at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos (2024).

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

• Acting as counsel to a major gas exporting company over a tax dispute with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) worth millions of dollars.

• Representing a West African focused gold producer in a multi-billion naira claim over alleged illegal gold mining operations in southwestern Nigeria.
• Acting as counsel to one of the joint venture partners of the oil mining lease (OML) 18 in a dispute relating to the arbitrary exercise of power by a law enforcement agency in Nigeria.
• Acting as counsel for a state-of-the-art, fully ensuite 100-bed hospital facility in Nigeria in a multi-billion naira medical negligence law suit filed against it by one of its patients.
• Successfully struck out a claim in excess of tens of millions of naira for a technology-focused digital distribution and payments company in Nigeria.
• Advising an E-commerce logistics and payment service operator in Africa on the defences to a copyright infringement action instituted against it by one of Nigeria’s foremost actors in the entertainment industry.

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• LL.B (Hons) Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.

• Called to the Nigerian Bar in 2022.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Member, Nigerian Bar Association.

• Associate, Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators of Nigeria.
• Associate Member, Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) – Nigeria.