Chambers BAR awards 2010 Winner

PROFESSOR FIDELIS ODITAH QC, SAN

Personal:

Born on 27th March 1964

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.LDE (Chancery Lane).
Email: fidelisoditah@southsquare.com Website www.southsquare.com

Education:

LLB (Lagos) 1984

MA (Oxon) 1989

BCL (Oxon) 1987

D Phil (Oxon) 1989

Commonwealth Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford between Sept 1986 and Sept 1989

Professional career:

Queen’s Counsel (UK)

Senior Advocate of Nigeria

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Oxford

Member of Court (Governing Council), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Member, Chancery Bar Association

Member, Commercial Bar Association

Member, Insolvency Lawyers Association

Member, International Bar Association

Areas of Practice:

International Commercial Arbitration, General Commercial Litigation, International Commercial Contracts, State Contracts, Oil and Gas and Other Forms of Energy, Banking and Financial Services, Company law and Insolvency.

  • Acts regularly as Arbitrator and also as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunals, both in institutional (including ICC and LCIA) and ad hoc arbitrations
  • Acts as Counsel at all levels of court in England (High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords) and to Arbitral Tribunals
  • Has acted as Counsel in other jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Nigeria and Bermuda

Academic Career:

Visiting Professor of Law at the Oxford University Law Faculty since 2000

Fellow and Tutor in Law, Merton College, Oxford and Travers Smith Braithwaite Lecturer in Corporate Finance Law, University of Oxford between 1989 and 1997

Consultant to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) between 1995 and 1999

Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, Fall of 1992

Founding Editor (and later Member of Editorial Committee) of the Company,

Financial and Insolvency Law Review between 1997 and 2001

Publications:

Has published several books and numerous learned articles in periodical journals.  His books include

  • Legal Aspects of Receivables Financing, published in 1991.
  • The Future for the Global Securities Market: Legal and Regulatory Aspects,
    published in 1996.
  • Insolvency of Banks, also published in 1996.

Hobbies:

Golf, tennis and reading