Dr. Jude Odinkonigbo is a seasoned legal and tax professional with about twenty-five (25) years of extensive cognate experience in legal and tax academia, public administration, and commercial legal practice. His professional expertise cuts across international tax law and policy, transfer pricing, tax controversy, tax policymaking and reform, general corporate tax, white collar defence and compliance, and commercial disputes resolution. Jude is a Partner in the Tax & Commercial Disputes Resolution practice of Ikeyi Shittu & Co., a commercial law firm in Nigeria. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Taxation and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Nigeria. He was most recently a Counsel in the Investigations, White Collar Defence & Compliance, and Tax & Commercial Disputes Resolution practices of Templars – a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria. Jude has also been a Partner and the Head of Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Intellectual Property practices at Alliance Law Firm in Nigeria. He also had a stint at Olaniwun Ajayi LP, one of Nigeria’s leading full-service commercial law firms. 

Jude routinely advises a broad range of local and international clients on transactional, regulatory, and tax-related issues. His previous experience includes consulting for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) of Nigeria, and several States’ Board of Internal Revenue Service in Nigeria. He is recognized as a Notable Practitioner in the IFLR 1000 guide to the world’s leading financial and corporate law firms. 

Jude holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Taxation Law & Policy from the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Canada. He also holds two (2) Master of Laws (LLM) degrees in International Tax Law from the Yale Law School of Yale University in the United States of America and in Intellectual Property Law from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Canada. Jude further holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the Enugu State University of Science & Technology in Nigeria, where he emerged the Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Law. Jude is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators.areer.