Folakunmi Pinheiro is a part-time Research Associate at Geradin Partners. Alongside working at Geradin partners, he is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where his research focuses on the relationship between competition law and economic development. He is also a consultant to Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and a Senior Editor at the Cambridge Law Review.

Previously, he has worked as a trainee lawyer in Nigeria and as a research assistant to Despoina Mantzari, at University College, London.

• Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, with investigating a company in the digital economy (ongoing)
• Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, with reviewing mergers, drafting regulations, drafting memoranda of understanding with other African competition authorities, and with investigations into the tobacco sector and the oil & gas sector (previous)
• Association of companies in the Nigerian capital markets, with intervening against a potentially anti-competitive merger
• Nigerian power company, with analysing the competition law implications of a proposed joint venture
• Poultry breeding company, on the competition law implications of a proposed distribution and supply arrangement with a competitor

Nigeria

English

• Folakunmi Pinheiro, ‘Competition Law and the Digital Economy’ in Olaniwun Ajayi LP (eds), Competition Law in Nigeria, pp. 275-300 (Forthcoming).
• Folakunmi Pinheiro, ‘Revisiting the “Code”: Building Privacy Competition into the Architecture of the Internet’ [2021] 42(8) ECLR 453 (Westlaw, 07/2021).
• ‘Damola Adediji & Folakunmi Pinheiro ‘Wake Up, NIPOST! It’s Antitrust O’Clock!’ (Competition Policy International, 09/2020).
• Jonathan Aluju, Tade Gbajumo, and Folakunmi Pinheiro, ‘COVID-19: Implications for Mergers between Competitors’ (Olaniwun Ajayi LP, 03/2020).
• Jonathan Aluju, Tade Gbajumo, and Folakunmi Pinheiro, ‘COVID-19: Competition and Consumer Protection’ (Olaniwun Ajayi LP, 03/2020).