Gbolahan Elias
Partner
[email protected]Professor Gbolahan Elias SAN is a partner in G Elias & Co. It is a leading Nigerian business law firm that is a member of the Africa Legal Network, the premier alliance of African business law firms. Gbolahan Elias’s practice is unusually wide-ranging.
He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1981 and the New York Bar in 1990. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (equivalent to Queen’s Counsel) in 2005 and is the first African member of the International Association of Defense Counsel.
He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) since 2004. He read law at Magdalen and Merton Colleges, Oxford University, graduating with a BA (first-class honours), BCL (first-class honours), MA and DPhil. He is currently the Chancellor of Lagos State University and a part-time professor at Babcock University, llishan-Remo.