Babatunde Fagbohunlu
Senior Partner, Aluko & Oyebode
[email protected]Babatunde Fagbohunlu, SAN is a senior partner in Aluko & Oyebode, Nigeria. He heads the firm’s litigation, arbitration and ADR practice group.
Tunde is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (admitted 1988). In December 2008, he was conferred with the rank of senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), a Nigerian equivalent of the English Queen’s Counsel.
Tunde specialises in commercial litigation and has litigated an extensive range of issues, including those pertaining to oil and gas, maritime, intellectual property, telecommunications, taxation, finance and banking, construction contracts, receiverships and insolvency, commercial law transactions and general litigation both at trial and appellate levels.
Tunde has represented various multinational companies, telecommunication companies and banks in litigations, arbitrations, including ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations administered by arbitral institutions. He has also been appointed arbitrator in several arbitration proceedings.
Tunde was named in the 2021 Global Arbitration Review 100 Rankings. In Chambers Global 2022 legal rankings, he was described as ‘one of the best lawyers in the country’ and as having ‘a great legal mind’. Tunde’s expertise has also been recognised in publications such as Who’s Who Legal and The Legal 500.