Joseph has earned an industry reputation cutting-edge legal expertise and wealth of experience in the legal services industry, having served leading multinationals, stakeholders and industry leaders in different parts of the world. He cut his teeth in legal practice, at one of the top tier law firms in Africa, having graduated with First Class Honours in his law degree from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and bagged a PGD (Merit) in Oil and Gas Law from the University of Aberdeen (UK). A Founding Partner and Senior Team Lead at Primus Grace LP, he is currently a Doctoral Researcher in at the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia. Joseph routinely advises on complex as well as market-defining corporate, commercial transactions, Energy and Natural Resources Law and is highly recommended by The Legal 500, for his cutting-edge cum in-depth legal expertise and insightful analysis of complex legal issues. He routinely provides legal support on all aspects of the oil and gas value chain including upstream operations, midstream and downstream activities as well as the oil services.In addition to being a finance and projects lawyer with experience in energy, natural resources, infrastructure, banking, finance, and tax advisory, Joseph has significant experience in advising International Oil Companies, Indigenous Oil Companies, commercial banks, development finance institutions (DFIs), startup firms, multinational and international corporations as well as international organizations. Joseph serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of African Law (Cambridge University Press) and Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press). He's a Contributing Writer with The Arctic Institute (Washington DC, USA) and contributed weekly to The Arctic This Week, the flagship publication of The Arctic Institute. He also contributes to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog (The Netherlands). He is a budding scholar and well published.