Practice Areas:
Banking
Project finance
Capital markets
Private equity
Restructuring and insolvency
M&A
Energy and infrastructure
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Consumer goods and services
Energy
Financial services
Technology and telecommunications
Transport
Real estate
Oil and gas
Social infrastructure
Natural resources
Languages:
English
Yoruba
French
Biography
Professor Gbolahan Elias SAN is a partner at G. Elias. He read law at Magdalen and Merton Colleges, Oxford University. BA and BCL degrees (both with 1st Class Honours) MA and a D.Phil.
Gbolahan Elias was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1981 and the New York Bar in 1990. He has been a Senior Advocate of Nigeria since 2005. He has authored several papers on arbitration, mergers and acquisitions and other matters. He has been the Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission, visiting Professor at Babcock University and the Chancellor of the Lagos State University.
He has advised on seminal mergers and acquisitions, large and complex foreign currency financings, transformative long-term commercial arrangements, pioneering infrastructure projects, and impactful law reform efforts – all across industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications, consumer products and transport.
Gbolahan Elias was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1981 and the New York Bar in 1990. He has been a Senior Advocate of Nigeria since 2005. He has authored several papers on arbitration, mergers and acquisitions and other matters. He has been the Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission, visiting Professor at Babcock University and the Chancellor of the Lagos State University.
He has advised on seminal mergers and acquisitions, large and complex foreign currency financings, transformative long-term commercial arrangements, pioneering infrastructure projects, and impactful law reform efforts – all across industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications, consumer products and transport.
Key practice areas
- Banking
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Competition
- Financial restructuring
- Financial services regulatory
- Investment funds
- M&A
- Private equity
- Project development
- Project finance
Sector expertise
- Agriculture
- Aviation
- Automotive
- Banking
- Construction and materials
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Financial services
- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Food and beverage
- Forestry
- Government and public policy
- Healthcare
- Industrials
- Insurance
- Media
- Mining
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences
- Real estate
- Shipping
- Technology and telecommunications
- Tourism
- Transport
Academic qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Oxford University
- Barrister-at-Law, Nigerian Law School
- Bachelor of Civil Laws, Oxford University
- Master of Arts, Oxford University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University
Association/network memberships
- International Academy of Defence Counsel
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK
- Chartered Institute of Taxation
- London Court of International Arbitration
Bar admissions
- Nigerian Bar Association
- International Bar Association
Address:
Tel:+234 803 402 3878
Email:Contact this practitioner
Website:https://www.gelias.com/team/partners/gbolahan-elias
6 Broad Street
Lagos, Lagos, 100001
Nigeria
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