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Prof Gbolahan Elias SAN KC

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Position

Partner

Career

Professor Gbolahan Elias SAN is a partner at G. Elias. He read law at Magdalen and Merton Colleges, Oxford University. BA and BCL degrees (both with 1st Class Honours) MA and a D.Phil.

Gbolahan Elias was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1981 and the New York Bar in 1990. He has been a Senior Advocate of Nigeria since 2005. He has authored several papers on arbitration, mergers and acquisitions and other matters. He has been the Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission, visiting Professor at Babcock University and the Chancellor of the Lagos State University.

He has advised on seminal mergers and acquisitions, large and complex foreign currency financings, transformative long-term commercial arrangements, pioneering infrastructure projects, and impactful law reform efforts – all across industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications, consumer products and transport.

Languages

English, Yoruba

Memberships

• Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
• Member of the Nigerian Bar.
• Member of the New York Bar.
• Fellow of the Energy Institute.
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Barrister-at-Law (B.L), Nigerian Law School. General Paper Prize Winner at the Nigerian Law School.
• Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Master of Arts (MA), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Sometime holder of the Oglethorpe and Underhill Exhibitions at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Junior Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.