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Adedayo is the chair of the firm’s dispute resolution and policy advisory practice. His work spans a balanced mix of litigation, arbitration, and transactional advisory, bringing equal weight to courtroom advocacy and commercial deal-making.
His practice covers complex commercial dispute resolution (including international and domestic arbitration), pre-election and election matters, white-collar crime, and high-stakes litigation. Equally, he advises on corporate and commercial transactions, property and real estate deals, regulatory compliance, and startup advisory (formation, fundraising, equity structuring, and commercial contracting). He also provides policy advisory to clients navigating evolving regulatory and governance landscapes.
Adedayo serves as a non-executive director in three private companies, where he routinely advises on commercial transactions, litigation, company restructuring, corporate governance, and strategic growth. He began his legal career at a top-tier Nigerian law firm and has litigated significant claims for local and multinational clients at all levels of the Nigerian courts. He is well known for creative, out-of-the-box solutions to complex legal and commercial challenges.
- Regularly litigates pre-election disputes before the Federal High Court, and the Court of Appeal. Currently holds a 100% success rate for all the pre-election disputes he has handled.
- Actively involved in the legal representation of the interest of a leading multinational oil company against a claim in the sum of $799,000,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Ninety-Nine Million United States Dollars).
- Actively involved in the successful representation of a tier-1 indigenous construction company against a winding-up action at the Federal High Court.
- Participated in the successful activation of the receivership clause in a facility agreement provided by the senior lenders (Facility A), and a junior Naira mezzanine debt facility provided by the mezzanine lenders (Facility B), both facilities representing US$9,347,000.00, and N2,900,000,000.00 respectively.
- Participated in the preparation of bidding and transaction documents for major concession projects.
- Routine review of commercial agreements for a major player in the aviation sector.
- Actively involved in the legal representation of a commercial bank against a tax claim by a State Government in excess of 1 trillion Naira.