Soji Awogbade is a Partner and Lead of the International Trade, Energy & Natural Resources and Agriculture Practice Groups at ǼLEX. He is an energy and transactions lawyer with over 40 years of legal practice experience in many sectors of the Nigerian economy. Since taking an interest in international trade, he has participated in the formulation of Nigeria's trade policy and has been a resource person on committees and conferences on trade. Through the years, he has been exposed to regional and international organizations devoted to the advancement of boundary-less development of programs and initiatives supplying both the strategic and legal content to the programs arising from them. He has participated in programs related to the international trade framework for ECOWAS, AfCFTA and Nigeria.

Mr. Awogbade is also a frequent speaker at domestic and international seminars on international trade, energy, natural resources and environmental issues. He is a global elite thought leader in the energy category and has been consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in energy and natural resources by highly respected stables, including Chambers Global and IFLR1000.