Champion Olatunji is a  lawyer, business and legal strategist. He advises businesses, investors and institutions on commercial transactions, contract negotiation and structuring, regulatory compliance, and the emerging sustainability and energy questions reshaping how projects are financed and how goods reach international markets.

Champion’s view of the energy transition is commercial rather than ideological. Carbon is being priced, traded and adjusted at borders. Climate finance arrives with conditions attached. Sustainability disclosures that were once voluntary now determine which projects attract international capital and which exports face costs on arrival in Europe. For African businesses and the investors behind them, these are questions about whether a project is financeable, not whether it is virtuous and they are being decided now, in contracts being signed today.

He writes extensively on these questions. His work has been published by Oxford University Press, in Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence and by the American Branch of the International Law Association, covering carbon capture contracting, carbon border adjustment, voluntary carbon markets, corporate greenwashing and sustainability due diligence.

Duke University School of Law — LL.M., Business Law Certificate

Nigerian Law School — B.L.

Obafemi Awolowo University — LL.B.

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria