An overview of the Nigerian, African and Global Sports Landscape (labour, Contract, Sports Integrity, commercial opportunities) Sports as a regulated sector. Sports governance (international federations and national bodies roles and WADA)

Overview of Sports Dispute Resolution. ● The attitude of Courts to Sports Dispute Resolution

The impact of International Sports Law on the development of Global Arbitration Sports Rules and case laws. The Nigerian/ West African situation

Employment Disputes; Team Selection Appeals; Eligibility; Governance & Ethics; Other Disciplinary Matters ; Safeguarding; Commercial disputes

The unveiling of the Lagos Court of Arbitration – Sports Tribunal, Rules and Procedures.

Practical Sessions

Beverley Agbakoba-Onyejianya is a regulatory and compliance professional and a lawyer. She is called to the Nigerian and UK bar. She is on the panel of neutrals at the Lagos Multi Door Court and the Lagos Court of Arbitration. She has over twelve years professional experience in the banking and capital markets sectors in the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

Her broad experience in the regulatory and compliance industry covers investment banking, brokerage and fund management sectors and has seen her hold various leadership roles in regulatory and compliance sector.

She is currently Head of the Sports, Entertainment and Tech practice at Olisa Agbakoba Legal. She is a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) Sports thematic Industry group on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Youth Policy Development. She is also a member of the Lagos Divisional Football Association.

As a thought leader, Beverley has contributed on several panels such as the CNN Africa Freedom day panel on sports slavery and trafficking, she has also written a paper titled “Health Tech in Nigeria: A Legal Perspective” which mirrors the current regulatory landscape for the health tech sector in Nigeria. She was also a panelist on the sports law session for the Benin chapter of the Young Bar Forum and the Stakeholders Roundtable on Sports Business and Dispute Resolution organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Center (LACIAC) which she moderated.

The author of several articles, her article titled “Minors in football in Nigeria: Safeguarding their rights and Securing their Interests” remains the most highly ranked article on sports slavery in Nigeria.

Her interest in sports and youth development led her to set up the Lagos Tigers Football Club (LTFC) in 2012 . She is also a legal and compliance writer, facilitator and regularly gives lectures and shares her expertise through flagship programs such as SME Radio and Sports Parliament. She also raises awareness on regulatory and compliance issues and the development of Sports, Entertainment and Technology law as an emerging practice area in Nigeria.

For her numerous contributions to the development of Sports and Intellectual Property in Nigeria, Beverley was recently presented with an award at the World Intellectual Property Day event hosted by Friends of the Creator Artistic Foundation an NGO that has been supporting the development of Intellectual Property rights in Nigeria

Ike was called to the Nigerian Bar (1982) and to the Bar of England and Wales (1996) by the Honourable Society of Lin- coln’s Inn. He is a Fellow (1994) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London and also a Chartered Arbitrator (2007). He is a Fellow of the Asian institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution based in Singapore; an accredited mediator of the Academy of Experts in Gray’s Inn; as well as a CEDR Mediator in Investor – State Disputes. He is an international arbitrator and dispute resolver practising out of 7 Stones Com- mercial & IP Chambers based in London and is listed on the United Nations affiliated WIPO Panel of Neutrals based in Geneva. He was an officer of the African Council of the Lon- don Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) between 2013 – 2019.

He is currently listed on the CAS Panel of Arbitrators for Football in Lausanne, and has resolved a considerable number of Football related disputes either as Chairman of Tribunal or Sole Arbitrator or Co-Arbitrator. He is a Visiting Professor and Fellow at the Centre for Interna- tional Legal Studies (CILS) in Salzburg; a part-time Professor of Law at the School of Law, Christchurch Canterbury Uni- versity, England.

He is an approved tutor, trainer and assessor on the arbitration, adjudication and mediation training courses of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London.