Our Team
    
   
 
 
Lape Silva

B.A, Hons, LL.B Hons, LPC, B.L
Associate
   
 

LAPE SILVA has been a full-time Associate of A.T & Co since 2006

EDUCATION:
  • Moira House School (U.K)
  • BA Hons 1997, Thames Valley University
  • LLB. Hons 2002, Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, 2004 (Hertfordshire, U.K.)
  • BL, 2006, (Nigerian Law School
 
 
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
 
 
 
 
  • Solicitor & Advocate of Supreme Court of Nigeria;
  • Member, Nigeria Bar Association;
  • Member, Junior Lawyers (Law Society, UK.)
  • Member, Women & Commercial Groups (Law Society, UK)
 
 
 
 
OTHER TRAINING
 
 
 
 

On the job training and experience is complimented with external Common Professional Development programmes:

  • ICSA Forum – “On Corporate Governance: The Roles of Company

                                                 Secretaries/Registrars,” 2007;

  • Nigerian Capital Market Institute – Workshop: “Effective Capital Market Operations”, 2007

  • NBA, Section Business Law -Law & Economic Development in Africa, 2007

                            - Law, Business & National Transformation, 2009

  • United Nations Institute of Training & Research (UNITAR) – “Fundamentals of International   Capital Market & Regulations”, 2009                                                             

 
 
 
 

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE:    Nigeria

LANGUAGES:    ENGLISH (excellent in speaking, reading and writing).

 
 
 
 
EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:
 
 
 
 

 2006 - To Date         -       Abdulai, Taiwo &Co. 2004           -      M. Olubi Solicitors, U.K

 2000         -       Akintola Williams Deloitte Touché  (Company Secretarial Dept.)

1997   -    1999         -       Nigeria Breweries Plc. (Company Secretarial Dept.)

 
 
 
  PRACTICE AREAS  
 
 
 

Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial; Commercial Transactions, Company Set-Ups; Due Diligence and Compliance; Securities; Project Finance Audit; Capital Market; Public Private Partnership(PPP)

 
 
 
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
 
 
 

Contributor “Starting a Foreign Business in Lagos, Nigeria” part of the Investing Across the Borders Project, IFC- World Bank