Adewale Timothy Oreofe

Our Managing Partner is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he bagged his Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) with a second class upper degree in 2008 and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2009 with a second class upper division from the Nigerian Law School. He also holds a professional course certificate on public prosecution and defense from the Lagos Business School/Pan-Atlantic University.

Timothy, before founding the law firm has previously worked in various legal capacity including: legal officer, Human Rights Volunteer Corps (HRVC), Enugu State Ministry of Justice, Bola Ige SAN & Co, serving as a Magistrate with the Ondo State Judiciary, Oladosu Ogunniyi& Co. He has also served as the deputy executive director of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Projects (SERAP).

He worked for so many years with the law firm of Oladosu Ogunniyi and Co, one of Nigeria’s leading labour and employment law firm as Head of Litigations. Timothy diligently handled many cases for the firm appearing in all superior courts of records in Nigeria including handling the locus classicus case of Union Bank of Nigeria V. Union Bank of Nigeria Pensioners on the issue of “thirteenth month” salary payment. He was also the lead counsel in the celebrated Supreme Court case of Ogunpehin v. Nucleus Ventures wherein he moved the Supreme Court to jettison its previous decisions on NBA stamp and seal.

Timothy has represented so many companies and organizations as a legal counsel including: Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), NIMASA, Union Bank of Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria, MRS Oil Plc, Greenville Oil and Gas and numerous other organizations and companies. Timothy has led SERAP’s team of lawyers in human rights regional courts of ECOWAS, and the African Commission. He was the lead counsel for SERAP in numerous public interest cases won for the organization.

Timothy was a member of Nigeria’s asset recovery delegation to Washington DC, USA in 2017 for the legal process leading to the repatriation of “Abacha loot 2”. He also previously served as a member of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC Coalition) Coordination’s Committee and representative of Sub-Saharan Africa Seat 1, (2016-2018), and a Member of the Steering Committee, Open Government Partnership-(OGP) Nigeria (2016-Dec 2018). Between March to May, 2020, He led the work on the draft human right due diligence legislation for business and human rights in Nigeria.

Timothy has attended many trainings, workshops and conferences in and outside Nigeria. Notably among these include:

National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC, USA Dec 2018 Fundamentals of Modern Concepts in International Human Right Law

Omydyar Network, Nairobi, Kenya Nov -2018 Performance Management and Coaching in Development

Speaker, Fundamentals of Public Interest Litigation at Nigeria/Mexico Anti-Corruption Exchange and International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark October 17-24, 2018

Speaker and Panelist on Toxic Air and Right to Clean Environment: Woburn House, London, United Kingdom, September 27 & 28, 2018

Key Speaker at the Centre for Petroleum Information (National Institute for International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria: “Community Relations and Sustainable Development—Evolving Concept in the Oil and Gas Industry” July 2018

Member, Nigeria Delegation to Open Government Partnership Summit; Tbilisi, Georgia, July 16-19, 2018

Facilitator and Trainer: United Nations Multi Stakeholders Workshop on the United Nations Convention against Corruption Review Mechanisms, Dakar, Senegal, May 8-11, 2018

Speaker and Panelist: Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR), Washington DC, USA, December 6-9, 2017

Anti-Corruption Observer, Conference of State Parties (COSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Vienna, Austria, November 10-17, 2017

Anti-Corruption Observer, Implementation Review Group (IRG) Meeting of UNCAC, Vienna, Austria, June 23-26, 2017

Conference on Financial System Integrity Improvement by the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Convention on Business Integrity, Abuja, Nigeria, June 30, 2017