Mr Babajide Ogundipe FCIArb
Position: Partner, Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgore
Expert Overview
With more than forty years’ experience, he is ranked as one of Nigeria’s leading arbitration practitioners by Who’s Who Legal and Chambers Global. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1993, he was a founding member of its Nigerian Branch, serving as its first Secretary, third Vice-Chair and Branch Chair. He was the first President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, serving between 2010 and 2014. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption, and the Task Force on Issues of Corruption inn International Arbitration of its Commission on Arbitration & ADR. He is currently co-Executive Director of ICC FraudNet.
International Arbitration Appointments
| No. of international arbitration appointments | 11 |
| No. of those as chair | 2 |
| No. of those as sole arbitrator | 5 |
| No. of those as wing-arbitrator | 4 |
| No. of those appointed by arbitral institutions | 5 |
| No. of those that were ad hoc arbitrations | 5 |
| Names of African co-arbitrators | Yakubu Maikyau; Obosa Akpata; Agada Elachi; C. Adeyemi Candide-Johnson |
| Names of arbitral institutions involved | ICC International Court of Arbitration; Lagos Court of Arbitration; Kigali International Arbitration Centre; Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa |
| Appointing authority involved in the ad-hoc arbitrations? | Yes |
| Names of appointing authorites involved | Nigerian Branch Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Lagos Court of Arbitration |
| Where did you sit? | Lagos; Kigali; London |
| Under which applicable laws and rules? | Nigerian; English; South African; and Rwandan laws; Arbitration Rules under Arbitration & Conciliation Act, Nigeria; UNCITRAL; ICC; AFSA, LCA and the KIAC Rules |
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