Keating Chambers

Abdul Jinadu was called to the Bar in 1995 and has been a practising barrister and arbitrator in Keating Chambers since 1996, specialising in construction, engineering and energy disputes, and domestic and international arbitration. He has acted for the full spectrum of clients including construction and engineering companies, government organisations, corporations, public utilities, local authorities, consultancies, architects and engineers. He has extensive experience of cladding related disputes having been instructed on behalf of the Bereaved Survivors and Residents as a specialist construction counsel on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and as counsel in various cladding claims including a £70m claim in the High Court. Abdul was featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 for 2025 and was shortlisted for 'Construction and Energy Junior of the Year' at the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2025. Abdul is a Tier 2 Leading Arbitrator for International Arbitration in Legal 500 2026. He is also a Part II DIFC registered practitioner, and is included in the Islamic Cooperation Arbitration Centre (OIC-AC) and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) Lists of Arbitrators.

He has extensive experience of a wide range of disputes and advisory work relating to infrastructure projects. Significant cases have involved oil and gas onshore and offshore facilities, solar power plants, aluminium smelting plants, pharmaceutical plants, hospitals, mining and marine construction.

He has an extensive international practice both as counsel and as arbitrator. He has acted as chair of the tribunal, sole arbitrator and party appointed arbitrator in respect of major projects internationally including in the GCC, Caribbean, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Turkmenistan. Recent appointments include as sole arbitrator in a Tanzanian arbitration, as president of the tribunal in a $370m ICC arbitration and party appointed arbitrator in a £400m Nigerian dispute.

His arbitrator appointments have included ICC and DIFC-LCIA appointments as well as ad hoc arbitrations.

He also has experience of dispute boards acting both as counsel and dispute board member including as chair of a dispute board for a $300m road project in Central Africa.

He is a chapter author for Keating on Construction Contracts, Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering, Keating on NEC, Construction Law in the 21st Century and Oil and Gas Contracts – Principles and Practice. He has lectured on a wide range of subjects to a wide range of professional bodies. He has written articles on a wide range of construction law related subjects.

Qualified 1995; Middle Temple; TECBAR-accredited adjudicator 2004; public access training 2004.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) Technology and Construction Bar Association (TECBAR) Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) Society of Construction Law CIArb (UK and Nigeria) Lagos Court of Arbitration Directory of African International Arbitrators (DAIA)

University of Cambridge (MA; LLM).

Abdul has written papers on adjudication and professional negligence. He is an avid Tottenham Hotspurs fan and enjoys military history.