Abdullateef, the Managing Counsel of Goldlex Legal, is a technology and startup lawyer with in-house counsel, external counsel, and company secretarial experience. He is also a chartered tax practitioner and arbitrator.
As a legal practitioner, he provides legal services to local and foreign clients on a broad range of legal advisory, tax, regulatory, corporate, commercial, and dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and mediation), matters, domestic and cross-border. He advises several Africa-focused startups and businesses on business formation, corporate structuring and restructuring (including M&As), financing (pre-seed, seed, and series; debt and equity; traditional and alternative), scaling and expansion, and a wide array of simple and intricate commercial transactions. He has also conducted diverse litigation matters before various superior courts of record in Nigeria and has recorded lead and sole appearances in contentious and recondite matters at each of the Court of Appeal, State High Courts, Federal High Court of Nigeria, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, and Magistrates’ Court of Lagos State. He served as Amicus Curiae to the Nigerian Tax Appeal Tribunal in the tax appeal, Standard Practice Professionals v FIRS (Appeal No. TAT/LZ/VAT/013/2018).
Abdullateef is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS), London; the Chair of the Regional Developments Subcommittee of the International Bar Association (IBA); and the IBA National Representative for Nigeria. He has also won various writing contests, locally and internationally. His article was selected for presentation at the 2018 African Bar Association Annual Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. His essay on “Technology’s Impact on Legal Services” earned him the IBA scholarship to attend the 2018 IBA Annual Conference in Rome, Italy.
Described by colleagues as “a deep legal thinker” and “a sound advocate”, Abdullateef was inaugurated into the Future Awards Africa Class of 2020 (dubbed the Nobel Prize for Young Africans by the World Bank). He sits on the advisory board and board of directors of some organisations and has been named, by premier rating agencies and awarding organisations, as one of the most influential young Nigerians, particularly in the legal sector.
Professional Affiliations
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London Member
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) Member
Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS), London Fellow
International Bar Association Officer
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) Member
YIAG of the London Court of International Arbitration Member
Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration Member
African Bar Association Member
Nigerian Bar Association Member
Abdullateef, the Managing Counsel of Goldlex Legal, is a technology and startup lawyer with in-house counsel, external counsel, and company secretarial experience. He is also a chartered tax practitioner and arbitrator.
As a legal practitioner, he provides legal services to local and foreign clients on a broad range of legal advisory, tax, regulatory, corporate, commercial, and dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and mediation), matters, domestic and cross-border. He advises several Africa-focused startups and businesses on business formation, corporate structuring and restructuring (including M&As), financing (pre-seed, seed, and series; debt and equity; traditional and alternative), scaling and expansion, and a wide array of simple and intricate commercial transactions. He has also conducted diverse litigation matters before various superior courts of record in Nigeria and has recorded lead and sole appearances in contentious and recondite matters at each of the Court of Appeal, State High Courts, Federal High Court of Nigeria, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, and Magistrates’ Court of Lagos State. He served as Amicus Curiae to the Nigerian Tax Appeal Tribunal in the tax appeal, Standard Practice Professionals v FIRS (Appeal No. TAT/LZ/VAT/013/2018).
Abdullateef is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS), London; the Chair of the Regional Developments Subcommittee of the International Bar Association (IBA); and the IBA National Representative for Nigeria. He has also won various writing contests, locally and internationally. His article was selected for presentation at the 2018 African Bar Association Annual Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. His essay on “Technology’s Impact on Legal Services” earned him the IBA scholarship to attend the 2018 IBA Annual Conference in Rome, Italy.
Described by colleagues as “a deep legal thinker” and “a sound advocate”, Abdullateef was inaugurated into the Future Awards Africa Class of 2020 (dubbed the Nobel Prize for Young Africans by the World Bank). He sits on the advisory board and board of directors of some organisations and has been named, by premier rating agencies and awarding organisations, as one of the most influential young Nigerians, particularly in the legal sector.
Professional Affiliations
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London – Member
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) – Member
Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS), London – Fellow
International Bar Association – Officer
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) – Member
YIAG of the London Court of International Arbitration – Member
Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration – Member
African Bar Association – Member
Nigerian Bar Association – Member
