Facilitators

Tolulope is a Partner in the law firm of Perchstone and Graeys, LP. He heads the Energy Practice Group of the Firm and presently, the London office of the firm.

A John Taylor scholar of the prestigious University of Aberdeen, Scotland, a Doctoral Fellow at Durban University of Technology, South Africa, Tolulope holds a postgraduate degree in Oil and Gas; a B.L. from the Nigerian Law school and an LL.B. from the University of Ibadan. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK (Nigerian Branch) and has a wealth of experience in both Domestic and International Arbitration.

Having more than a decade of experience in the energy sector Tolu (as popularly addressed) has handled and advised on complex transactions and commercial arbitrations in the oil and gas sector. He has equally spent considerable professional time advising on both local and international transactions, commercial litigation, government advisory services, cross-border trade disputes and transactions, and crude disputes and has more recently focused on advisory services bothering on attracting foreign investors into Nigeria.

Describing him by the ‘WHO’SWHO (WWL) LEGAL’ as “excellent” and a highly regarded practitioner with extensive expertise in complex oil and gas, power and general commercial transactions, and energy-related disputes.

Tolu is a Visiting Professor at the Afe-Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Law Association (ILA), Nigerian Branch, a Member of the Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, Chairman of the Training Committee of the Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association, member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Businessday Newspapers; Member, Board of Trustees, PAYE Foundation; Strategic Partner to the Development Agenda of Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission; Convener, The INSIGHT (A Pan-African Business Roundtable); Member, Lagos Oil Club; Member, Polo Club; President, Ibadan Young Professionals Group and a host of other professional and social groups.

Burning with a transformative desire to impact society, Tolu is clothed with a desire for excellence, change, and passion to serve humanity, a time when these are rare commodities.

Tolu’s transactional experience includes:

• Counsel representing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in a highly contentious USD5.5 Billion energy arbitration; and in a US$360 Million tax-computation-related arbitration.
• Counsel representing the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Ltd. (NPDC) in a highly contentious arbitration valued at USD30Million arising from a drilling services contract.
• Legal advisory counsel to Mojec International Limited under the Meter Assets Provider regime in Nigeria’s electricity supply industry.
• Team Lead representing a Nigerian private Oil and Gas Services company in arbitration, over an alleged claim of USD2Million.
• Legal advisory and company secretarial counsel to an indigenous Oil and Gas Company for the acquisition of a marginal field under the 2020 marginal field bid round exercise.
• Led an investor’s delegation to a West African country to negotiate the acquisition of oil blocs.
• Transaction counsel to a consortium that will be working with all the southwestern state governments, toward a digital standardization of the education sector in Nigeria.