Member Profile

Olajide Oyewole LLP was established in 1964 and is one of the largest firms in sub-Saharan Africa. Our firm has provided efficient services that are adaptive and tailor-made for our clients. We get straight to the point of the commercial challenges faced by our clients and make it our business to understand their industry, their everyday concerns and their future goals. The Firm aims to deliver an incomparable client experience, and our clients interact with the very best lawyers, who have some of the finest legal minds in the industry, who also possess a refreshingly creative and resourceful approach to work.

Olajide Oyewole LLP recently become a member of the DLA Piper Africa Group. DLA Piper is ranked as the world’s number one law firm according to Who’s Who 2016 and Merger Market League Tables. It has also been ranked as the number one “game changer” for the past ten years by the Financial Times.

As general counsel, Sandra provides legal services on a multitude of issues to various sectors and industries. In the first 8 years of Sandra’s career, she acquired significant dispute resolution experience at all levels of Nigeria’s judicial system. With the development of her analytical, oratory and drafting skills, Sandra joined Olajide Oyewole and Co.(as it was then named) in 2001 as a partner where she guided the growth of the Firm’s practices in advertising, brand protection, broadcasting, employment, entertainment, estate planning, hospitality, immigration, information technology, intellectual property, media and sports. Sandra has in depth knowledge of Nigeria’s creative and innovative industries, regularly structuring deals and providing legal and regulatory advice. Sandra is often invited to speak at seminars and workshops in and outside Nigeria on matters pertaining to chain of title, intellectual property and Nigeria’s creative industry. She has a number of articles published and is committed to the strengthening of Nigeria’s anti-piracy and intellectual property laws and policies.

In an increasingly competitive global environment, patents have remained one of the strongest means of protecting valuable inventions. As a result, they are easily the most commercially valuable. At Olajide Oyewole LLP, our team of lawyers in the intellectual property practice have an in-depth understanding of the applicable laws, inventive processes in our clients’ respective industries and are able to provide world class legal services to inventors including tailored advice, development of robust strategies for the protection of valuable innovation, conduct critical analysis of inventions for patentability, draft, review and process patent applications, track administrative examination procedures, draft patent licenses and technology transfer agreements and combine the strength of our premier litigation team for enforcement purposes.

Our market-leading commercial, IT, IP,

corporate and regulatory practices enable us to provide media clients with an integrated cross practice team, providing focussed and commercial advice. We regularly advise media clients and investors on cross-border transactions, reflecting the global reach of today's media platforms and partnerships.

More than ever before, intangible assets such as brands, know-how and reputation are of key importance to businesses. Drawing on our wide range of experience across many sectors, we are well-placed to provide the joined-up, cost-effective advice and protection that clients need to obtain, retain and grow these assets. Our intellectual property practice includes opposition proceedings management.

Our Technology service integrates lawyers with extensive experience in a wide variety of technology matters working in the areas of corporate, commercial, tax, corporate finance, securities, intellectual property, competition law and litigation. We have broad experience in all aspects of technology financing and M&A transactions, from structuring through the due diligence process to completion of the transaction.

1992 to 1993 Nigerian Law School: Diploma and Call to Bar

1988 to 1992 Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife: Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

1986 to 1988 Queen’s College Yaba Lagos: A Levels

1981 to 1986 Queen’s College Yaba Lagos: O Levels

 Entertainment industry can employ 2,000 Nigerians annually

https://dailytimes.ng/entertainment/entertainment-industry-can-employ-2000-nigerians-annually-oyewole

 A Peek Inside Nigeria’s Film Industry

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2014/02/article_0001.html

 Why NCC Must Relocate To Culture Ministry

http://www.ogtv.com.ng/why-ncc-must-relocate-to-culture-ministry/https://thenationonlineng.net/ncc-must-relocate-to-culture-ministry

 Nigeria: 'Economy Will Be Better If We Invest More in Entertainment'

http://allafrica.com/stories/201701060172.html

 “Chain of Title and The Practical uses of Rights”,

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/preparing-nollywood-intl-market-2014/

 Hairspray- Lessons Learned.

http://www.mondaq.com/Nigeria/x/293340/broadcasting+film+television+radio/Hairspray+Lessons+

 Chain of Title and Practical Use of Rights

• The United Nations

• Pro Bono work for Addo Project

• Widow Organisations

• Bricon Foundation: an organisation saddled with the responsibility of keeping hope alive for cancer patients as well raise awareness via education, advocacy and counseling.

• Cece Yara Foundation: Nigeria’s flagship advocacy organization whose aim and vision is to effectively tackle the menace of child sexual abuse through community empowerment and support.

Member of the Felabration Organizing Committee (Contracts, Merchandising, Web, Media, Felabration Partners Coordinator) - www.felabration.net

Initiator and Coordinator of the Addo Project (a project for widows) - www.addoproject.org