Lanre is the Managing Partner of Matrix-Solicitors LLP whose thorough-thinking habit and ability to cut through complexities to produce legal solutions has characterized his nearly three decades of legal practice – in the Court room and the Board room. He graduated in Law with Honours from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987. He thereafter completed a course in Management at the Lagos School of Business of the Pan African University. Lanre taught Law at the Lagos State University – and with his penchant for practical pedagogy, at the Nigerian Institute of Advance Legal Studies as a yearly resource person on Commercial Law and Practice, with a focus on Information Technology Law. He was resource person on Nigerian Law and Practice at the 2004 International Bar Association (IBA) Conference in New Zealand and to the official Nigerian delegation – NNPC at the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, USA. Aside from providing expert advice in a wide array of sectors in Business, Technology, Finance, Power, Government Regulatory policies, transaction structuring, documentation and taxation, Lanre?s civil and criminal litigation practice in Nigeria has led the Firm (Matrix-Solicitors) in milestone cases and transactions for a clientele base ranging from multinationals to local start-ups, for whom he has successfully handled intricate deals and cases before State and Federal Courts, Administrative Tribunals and has arbitrated domestic and international matters under the ICC, LCIA, GAFTA and ad hoc Rules. Among other professional bodies, Lanre is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the International Bar Association