Qudus Adeoye is a Senior Associate at Kenna Partners and heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property Unit. With close to a decade professional experience, he is well versed in Nigerian vast and dynamic litigation and ADR space, having represented and advised clients in various sectors, particularly in banking, energy and intellectual property law.
He has obtained relevant certifications such as the WIPO Certificate on Madrid System (on International Registration of Marks); Joint WIPO and Harvard Law School (PatentX); Harvard Law School CopyrightX (Distinction), among others.
Relevant Experience
- Represented the Claimant in a matter involving copyright infringement of the source code for mobile application.
- Representation of one of the top six International Oil Companies (IOCs) in the 1998, 2010, 2012 and 2014 IDOHO- Q.I.T Pipeline Oil Spill Litigation disputes involving about 5,000 claims at the many divisions of the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal sitting in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa States in
- Representation of the Federal Government in lawsuits over the Concession of the Lagos/Ibadan
- Representation of an IOC in a gas flaring lawsuit in a claim put at $85 Million in a post Petroleum Industry Act (passed in 2021).
Education
- B.L (First Class Honours), Nigerian Law School, Lagos
- LL. B (Honours) Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria
Bars
- Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Memberships
- Member, Nigerian Bar Association
- Member, Nigeria Bar Association Section on Business Law Intellectual Property Committee
Publications
- An Overview of the Connection Between Traditional Knowledge and Food Security
- Nigerian Food, Photography and Law Report
- Intellectual Property, Gender & Traditional Cultural Expressions – Nigerian Rural Women’s Narrative
- ‘Data Mining: Exploring the Legal Issues in a Post-GDPR/NDPR Era’ in Demola Okeowo, PhD, (ed) Trailblazer: A Selection of Essays and Papers in Celebration of Chief ‘Folake Solanke, SAN, CON (Legal Magnates International, Abuja, 2019)
- Sifax Nig. Ltd v. Migfo Nig. Ltd (2018): Could time freeze, too, for the purpose of Timelines for Hearing Election Petitions?
