Profile

Mohammed Babangida Umar is the founder and Principal Partner, Capital Chambers, Suite B2/3, Ibro Hotel, Michael Okpara Street, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja. Before establishing the law firm in 1995, Mr. Umar was a pioneer legal officer with the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, Abuja (1989 - 1994). He was also a lecturer on the Law of Contract, Commercial Law, Law of Torts, and the Nigerian Legal System at the College of Law, University of Abuja (1994 - 1998). Mr. Umar has also been involved in a number of National and International Assignments. He was, for instance, a member of the Presidential Committee on the review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999; delegate, Presidential Retreat on Electoral Process and Violence; Member Committee of experts on the review of the constitution of African Rural and Agricultural Finance Association, (AFRACA), Nairobi, Kenya; Member International Observer Team to the Parliamentary Election in the Republic of SaoTome and Principe.

EDUCATION

1. Centre for Energy ,petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee
   LLM, Energy Law and Policy (2005)
2. Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Institute for Energy Law, and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
   International Energy Law, Contracts, and Negotiations-Upstream Issues and Agreements
   (Houston Texas, September 25, to October 1, 2004)
   - International Energy Law, Contracts, and Negotiations-Midstream Issues and Agreements
   (Houston Texas, October 4, to October 8 2004)
3. Harvard Law School
   Program of Instruction for lawyers (June 2002) (Business Law courses: U.S securities Law, WTO, American Law and Land Law)
   Program of Instruction for Lawyers (June 2002) (Negotiation workshop)
4. International Law Institute, Kampala, Uganda
   Public Enterprises, Restructuring & Privatisation seminar,
   (September, 2000)
5. Fourth Pan-African Privatisation & Investment -Summit Abuja - Nigeria.
   (November 2000)
   
6. Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
   7^th Course in Legal Drafting (1992)
7. Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria. BL (1989)
8. 8. Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. LLB (Hons) (1987)