ANTHONY IDIGBE SAN

ANTHONY IDIGBE SAN, SAN was elected a Non-Executive Director of Capital Hotels Plc with effect from 30th June, 2017 and subsequently elected Chairman of the Board on 7 July, 2017. A seasoned legal practitioner with over 30 years experience, Chief Anthony Idigbe is the Senior Partner at Punuka Attorneys & Solicitors, a fully integrated and multi-dimensional business law practice with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Asaba, Nigeria and member of Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW), a global association of over 95 independent law firms located in more than 50 countries around the world. ANTHONY IDIGBE SAN was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2000 and was recently admitted to practice law in Ontario, Canada. He has advised clients on several complex transactions and has represented major companies and institutions in the highest courts of Nigeria. He is a well-known capital markets legal adviser and has advised and acted as Counsel to the Securities & Exchange Commission. He has also been involved as lead counsel in many ‘big ticket’ litigation briefs such as the Kano Trovan Clinical Trial Cases. He also possesses wealth of knowledge and experience in Telecommunications Law particularly the workings of the Nigerian Telecommunications Industry, having represented numerous clients in various telecommunications disputes. He has extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring, and has acted as counsel to several ex-bank executives in a continuous flow of civil and criminal cases arising from the 2009 Central Bank intervention and restructuring in the banking sector. Chief Anthony Idigbe graduated from the University of lfe, (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife in 1982 with a 2nd Class Upper Degree (Hons). He also received the Hon. Justice Orojo Prize for the Best Student in Company Law. He finished from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos in 1983 also with a 2:1. He has three Masters of Law degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada (2015), the Robert Gordon University (RGU), Scotland, UK (2012) and the University of Lagos, Akoka (1988); MBA from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu (1997); Diploma in Advertising from Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), (1999), and was Lecturer, ESUT Business School, Enugu between 1999 and 2009 and APCON from 2000 – 2002. Anthony Idigbe was appointed in 2017 as the Chairman of the NBA Legal Profession Regulation Review Committee; in 2016 as Chairman of the committee set up by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to review some legislation/bills relating to Anti-trust and Competition in Nigeria; in 2013 as the National Coordinator for Nigeria, World Bank Global Forum of Law, Justice and Development Project on Treatment of Shareholders’ Rights in Insolvency of Companies (2013 to 2014); in 2012 as Member of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force set up by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to mention a few. He is the interim Chairman of Ikeja Hotels Plc, owners of Sheraton Hotel lkeja, Federal Palace Hotel Victoria Island and Sheraton Hotel Abuja. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK; Insolvency International and the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors and the International Insolvency Institute. He is the immediate past President of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN). He was the Founder and first Chairman, Capital Markets Solicitors Association (CMSA), and now functions as a Trustee of the Association. He has also served on various arbitration panels and is presently a member of the ICC Arbitral Panel. He is a Notary Public, author of many published books and articles, and a renowned resource person.