Barrister Olamide Elizabeth Adeleye is a Real Estate Developer, a Changemaker, a Philanthropist, an author and a lawyer with over 2 decades of post-call experience.
She has engaged in active consultancy and solicitor’s work and has researched extensively in Property and Land Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
Before founding her own firm, she was involved in active legal practice in the law firms of Ola Apalara & Co., Ogunniyi Ogundare & Co., and Dele Farotimi & Co. where she rose very quickly to become the head of the Real Estate arm of the Firm.
As a consultant, she has provided legal support services to companies in the banking and real estate sectors of the economy. She has equally advised on and negotiated out of court settlement of commercial disputes and has successfully and extensively mediated over family related issues.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Dwellings; a dynamic real estate development company specializing in residential and commercial real estate projects. The company has established itself as a trusted partner in delivering innovative and sustainable development solutions in Africa. The CSR arm of the company helps to renovate and refurbish public school libraries and also ensure they have at least one computer for the students rather than teaching computer theory classes.
‘Lamide’, as fondly called by close friends and associates graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2000 and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2002. With a CELTA certification from the university of Cambridge and having lived outside of Nigeria for many years, she has gained vast experience (with the rare advantage of a grounded world-view) in teaching Communication Skills both to teachers and students of varied nationalities.
She currently facilitates a class in Communication Skills at the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (NICA), also, she is currently pursuing her Master’s program (LLM) at the Queen Mary University of London.
Mrs. Olamide Elizabeth Adeleye is an enthusiastic, self-motivated, reliable, responsible, and hard-working person who works with a lot of integrity. She is a team player who is able to easily adapt under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines, having served in so many leadership roles from her early days, till date.
She is the author of an inspiring collection of quotes and poems titled, “CANVAS & SCROLL”. She has a soon to be published book written on real estate practices and how to get it right with real estate investment in Nigeria.