Firm News
| Templars Partner Elected To The NBA, SBL EXCO |
| Posted on: 20/01/2012 |
Templars Partner, Olumide A. Akpata has recently been elected Secretary to the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA), Section on Business Law (SBL) at the just concluded elections, held in Abuja on the 19th of January 2011.
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Business Law (SBL) was founded in 2004. It aims to promote the delivery of qualitative business law services to the public and to guide, assist and organise enlightenment programmes for committees on business law and legislative bodies in the deliberation, drafting and enactment of legislation pertaining to commercial and business issues of the nation in general. The NBA SBL provides continuing legal education for section members and assists in the exchange of information and views between individual members and other likeminded bodies as to the laws, practices and procedures affecting the section locally and internationally.
Olumide has over nineteen years of extensive experience of the commercial law practice. He heads the Corporate Commercial Practice at Templars and his work includes advising several local and international clients on regulatory compliance in relation to company law and commercial and business practice in Nigeria.