PRINCIPAL PARTNERKayode Sofola, SAN
kayodesofola@kslegal.org
Kayode Sofola is the Founding Partner of Kayode Sofola & Associates, which was set up in 1990, having worked for his father the late Kehinde Sofola, SAN, CON, at Kehinde Sofola & Co. from 1976 – 1983, where he rose through the ranks to become the Managing Partner.
He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Notary Public, a renowned commercial litigator and a tax specialist with a reputation of being an adviser to advisers. He was a member of, and legal adviser to, the Vision 20:2020 National Technical Working Group on the Judiciary and Rule of Law. He holds various company board appointments and was formerly a non-executive director for over 13 years (1994-2004) and Chairman (2004 – 2007) of the board of UBA Plc. presiding over its merger with STB and the ensuing integration process, and sat on the board of EMTS (Etisalat) Nigeria Limited until 2016.
He was the first ever Chairman of the Lagos Zone of the Tax Appeal Tribunal (2010 to 2016), he sat as a panel member of the now defunct VAT Tribunal (Western Zone) from 2000 to 2007 and also sat in 2005 as acting Chairman of the VAT Tribunal (Eastern Zone). He is a member of, and a legal adviser to, the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
1974 - 1995Education
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- 1974 LLB Law, The University of Birmingham
- 1975 LLM, Commercial Law, University College London
- 1976 Admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in July 1976
- 1983 Notary Public
- 1995 Conferred with the Rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria