Mr. Yemi Candide Johnson

Yemi Candide-Johnson is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the Senior Partner at Strachan Partners. He is continuously engaged as lead counsel in ongoing major and high profile commercial and public policy disputes across the courts of Nigeria and has been either counsel or arbitrator in several domestic and international commercial arbitrations in the maritime, petroleum banking and construction industries. Yemi also has remarkable experience in advising on complex commercial transactions as well as advising foreign investors on potential investment in Nigeria.

Yemi is a former President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, which is Africa’s foremost dispute resolution institution and the Chairman, Board of Directors, Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company.