GILBERT OLUSEGUN OLADEINBO

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SUMMARY

A foreign-trained legal practitioner with experience in various corporate, international trade and commercial transactions. I have strong interests in administrative law, compliance and pro-bono legal activities in public interest law.

EDUCATION

University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA

LL.M, expected May 2017

JD expected, May 2019

GPA: 3.92/4.00

Honors: LLM full-tuition scholarship (one-of-four merit-based scholarships)

Tuition Equalization Scholarship for the JD program

Activities: Business Law Society

Davenport-Benham chapter of the Black Law Students Association

Race and the Law Forum

OUTLaw, advocacy for social justice in gender equality and sexual orientation

Public Interest Law Partnership, volunteering for legal and social welfare aid

Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory

Admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2013

Honors: Second Class (Upper Division)

1st Prize, Ethics and Professional Responsibility (Law-in-Practice)

Activities: Secretary, Law Clinic, Abuja

National Representative, International Negotiation Competition, Chapman University Orange County, California, USA

Babcock University School of Law and Security Studies, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State

(Premiere Private-Owned University in Nigeria) Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), 2012

GPA: 4.92/5.00

Honors: Summa Cum Laude, best overall academic graduating student

Dean’s Prize for Best Student, School of Law and Security Studies

Activities: Senior Advocate, Law Students Association (Moot and Mock trials)

National Champion, inter-faculty debate of the Year, April 2012

Member, Babcock University School of Law Students Journal Committee

WORK EXPERIENCE

Live Forward Athens, GA February 2017 - Present

Volunteer

Organizing welfare packages for clients such as the food bank, sanitary and health bundles

Coordinating administrative and office support services

Participating in community outreach and education on preventing and living with HIV/AIDS

University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA 2016 – Present

Research Assistant – Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

Collaborating with supervisor on the publication of treatise on “the color of money”, exploring the history of black poverty, generation wealth and the US banking system and policies.

Conducting research using fee-based online commercial resources and other tools for research.

Exploring policies on how banking policies can positively target racial discrimination and racial poverty.

G. Elias & Co. (Solicitors and Advocates), Lagos, Nigeria 2014 – July 2016

(Member of African Legal Network “ALN” and one of Nigeria’s pre-eminent business law firms)

Associate Counsel

Represented the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in obtaining various transactional tax breaks from the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Conducted internal investigations and due diligence exercises on a myriad of conglomerates for purposes of detecting corporate fraud, insider trading and accounting irregularities.

Collaborated with team as counsel to Standard Chartered Bank (the lenders) on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) – Chevron US$1.5bn pre-export finance.

Prepared advisory opinions, drafted and filed legal documents for corporate finance, and M&A in the energy, financial services and hospitality sectors.

Led the Firm’s pro bono cases and provision of free legal aid services.

Prosecuted various complaints and answers at both Federal and State Courts with respect to labor dispute, contracts, personal injury claims and real estate.

Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. 2013 - 2014

(Federal regulatory body for registration of businesses and foreign investment)

Corporate Compliance Officer

Reviewed and assessed applications for the registration of companies, charities and unincorporated associations in Nigeria to regulate foreign direct and portfolio investment in Nigeria.

Defended actions against the Commission by aggrieved litigants in Federal Courts.

Participated in mediations and other Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms among companies involving disputes about their registration, composition or restructuring.

Community Service

Volunteer, LiveForward Athens, an outreach for people living with HIV/AIDS in Athens, Georgia.

Member, OUTLaw, Athens, GA – advocating for social and public policy for the mental and physical health of the LGBT+ community in Athens, Georgia.

Life Member, African Citizens’ Development Foundation – advocating for social discipline and “building a cultured society” theme in African citizens worldwide.

Publications

Gbolahan Elias & Gilbert Benson-Oladeinbo, Merger Control in Nigeria, Getting the Deal Through Vol. 3 Issue 1 (April, 2016).

Gilbert Benson-Oladeinbo et al., Lending and Taking Securities in Nigeria, Thomson Reuters (October, 2015).

Contributor to the World Bank Group’s “Doing Business in Nigeria” published 2016.

Additional Information

Fluent in English and Yoruba. Proficient in French.

Commentator on the role of the law in social engineering, the Rule of Law, government policies and the law.

Read about and traveling to different places.

Dancing, swimming, broadway and the opera.

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