Chief Olalekan Yusuf, SAN

Chief Olalekan Yusuf, SAN is the Principal Partner and founder of Olalekan Yusuf, SAN & Co., a leading law firm based in the highbrow area of Ikeja in Lagos State, Nigeria. He is one of the nation’s foremost legal practitioners with over three decades in the legal profession. A consummate legal practitioner, indeed, Chief Yusuf is variously described as the go-to Counsel for complex legal matters, particularly in the area of land law, law of secured credit transactions and Commercial Law.

Chief Olalekan Yusuf, SAN was in the year 2013 conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (S.A.N.) by the Chief Justice of Nigeria as a recognition for his numerous years of excellence in the practice of law. He was a former Chairman (2000-2002) and Vice Chairman (1998-2000) of Nigeria Bar Association (Ikeja Branch); and remains an active member of the body. Chief Yusuf is a member of both the General Council of the Bar and the International Bar Association (I.B.A.).

In 1992, Chief Yusuf founded Olalekan Yusuf, San & Co. in Lagos Nigeria. Today, Olalekan Yusuf, SAN & Co. is a full-serviced law firm cutting across a diverse fields of practice with its headquarter in Ikeja, Lagos and a satellite office in Abuja FCT.

Chief Yusuf is a nationally acclaimed litigator and transaction expert whose expertise covers the entire gamut of land law, Secured Credit Transactions and Commercial Practice. He represents domestic and multinational companies, public agencies, governments and inter-governmental institutions in various sectors.