Professor Fabian Ajogwu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor of Corporate Governance at the Lagos Business School, Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic and the Chairman, Governance Board at Kenna Partners. He holds a doctorate degree in Law from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; an MBA from the IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona; and Law degrees from the University of Nigeria, and University of Lagos.
The Learned Senior Advocate has been Lead Counsel to the Federal Government of Nigeria and its Agencies in several cases of national importance. He has extensive experience in deal structuring and has advised on complex transactions in several industries including Energy, Maritime, Banking and Financial services, Real estate and Infrastructure. He chairs the Board of the Novare Group in Nigeria (owners of the Novare malls), ARM Harith Infrastructure Ltd (Nigeria’s pioneer infrastructure fund), and NES Global, amongst others. He is a Non-Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, a Non-Executive Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, and has served as Honorary Counsel to the State of Israel and the Republic of South Africa, in Nigeria. He assisted the Securities and Exchange Commission in drafting Nigeria’s pioneer Code of Corporate Governance. He chaired the Nigerian Communications Commission Committee (NCC) on Corporate Governance that produced the pioneer NCC Code of Corporate Governance for the Telecommunication sector in the year 2014 and assisted with the Code’s review in 2016. He also served on the Committee of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria that produced the 2018 National Code of Corporate Governance.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Journal of Corporate Governance’, a publication of the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria and a member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Journal of Law Practice’ of the body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Scotland
- MBA, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
- LL.M, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- B.L., Nigerian Law School, Lagos
- LL. B, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Executive Education
- Said Business School, Oxford University, United Kingdom
- Aspen Institute, Aspen Colorado
- Harvard Business School, Boston MA
- Centre for Commercial Law Development, Lagos
- Lagos Business School, Lagos
- IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Fellowships
- Fellow, Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria
- Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators
- Fellow, African Leadership Initiative West Africa
- Fellow, Henry Crown Global Leadership of the Aspen Institute
- Fellow, AIFA Reading Society
Memberships
- Vice President, The Lagos Court of Arbitration
- Vice President, The Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators
- The Governing Council of the Pan-Atlantic University (Lagos Business School)
- The Council of Legal Education (Nigerian Law School)
- The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- The Lagos Court of Arbitration (Panel of Neutrals)
- The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
- Editorial Board of the Journal of Corporate Governance (SCGN)
- Editorial Board of the Journal of Law Practice of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria
- The Governing Council of the Society for Art Collection (SARTCOL)
Author
- ‘Commercial Arbitration in Nigeria: Law & Practice’
- ‘Fair Hearing’
- ‘Ship Acquisition & Finance: Law & Practice’
- ‘Corporate Governance & Group Dynamics’
- ‘Corporate Governance in Nigeria: Law and Practice’
- ‘Mergers & Acquisition in Nigeria: Law and Practice’
- ‘Law & Society’
