Mr. Paul Usoro is a nationally acclaimed litigator and foremost communications lawyer, the Senior Partner and founder of Paul Usoro & Co., and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He brings a wealth of experience in advocacy and alternative dispute resolution, banking and finance, communications, project finance, law, communication, finance, and leadership practice to the board.
He has over 30 years of law practice experience in finance, banking, oil and gas, power, election petition and communications practice areas. He represents domestic and multinational companies, public agencies, governments, and inter-governmental institutions in various sectors.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the International Bar Association, a Past President of the Nigerian Bar Association from 2018 to 2020, and the current Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Board of Access Bank Plc. Barr. Usoro has served on the Boards of several companies such as Premium Pensions Ltd, Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc, Airtel Nigeria Limited, and PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc. He was a pioneer director of Airtel Nigeria Limited and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marina Mars Principal Investments Limited. He also represented Access Bank as a Non-Executive Director on the board of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc.
Barr Usoro is on the Faculty of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as an astute trainer on telecommunications law and practice. He is also an active member of the NBA Legal Profession Regulation Review Committee set up in 2016.
Mr. Usoro holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ife (1981) and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982. He was elevated to the Inner Bar as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2003. He has continued to develop himself through relevant post-graduate executive courses, including Leadership Best Practices training at Harvard Business School in Boston, USA and the Finance for Executives Program at the Fontainebleau Campus of INSEAD in France. He is a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
