{"id":18440,"date":"2024-08-12T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18440"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:48:05","slug":"usoro-paul","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/usoro-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"USORO, Mr. Paul (SAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mr. Paul Usoro, SAN, is the Founder and Senior Partner of Paul Usoro &#038; Co. He has over 30 years\u2019 experience and is acknowledged as a nationally acclaimed litigator and Nigeria\u2019s foremost communications law expert. His expertise covers the entire gamut of commercial practice including finance, banking, oil and gas, power, election petition and communications practice areas. He has advised a wide range of blue chip Nigerian and foreign companies in the areas of project finance and development, equity raising, infrastructure development and management buy-outs. He has served as the Chief Legal Consultant\/ Sole Legal Practitioner for Nigeria and the only African in the six-member Auction Control Team for the Global Systems of Mobile Communications (GSM) Spectrum Licence Auction that introduced Econet Wireless Networks Limited (now Airtel), MTN Communications Limited and NITEL GSM to the Nigerian market. On August 20, 2018, Mr Usoro was elected as President of the Nigerian Bar Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24515,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,2613],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18440","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-telecommunications-consultant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27641,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18440\/revisions\/27641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18440"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}