Hi I'm Tope Salami. Nigeria based legal practitioner and an ECOWAS Youth Ambassador who has been in the core practice of Intellectual Property/Technology, Media/Entertainment Law, General litigation and Corporate/Commercial transactions since being called to the Nigerian Bar Association in November, 2014. He has advised numerous individual clients, brands and corporate agencies across numerous countries in different continents on different aspects of the law, brokering multi-million dollar deals and forming relationship with top brand executives.
He is the founder/principal partner of Whitestone Solicitors and Consultancy, a Lagos based law firm which provides various type of legal services and consultancy to people on different spheres of law. The law firm stands solidly behind various creative brands as legal adviser, with involvement in top notch transactions involving different local and international parties.
Over the past years, Tope Salami has been drawn to the Nigerian creative space and has dedicated the last years to having a better creative space in Nigeria in terms of structure and legislation. Tope is a passionate engager in the field of Technology and Intellectual property and to this end has graced various stages with other top World practitioners to share his experience, thoughts and knowledge in this developing field, particularly in Nigeria.
Further to his passion towards having a sane creative industry, he founded a Nigerian Creative firm named ‘The Creative Yard’ which caters for the needs of different creatives as he holds the firm belief in the quote” TALENT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO BUILD A PROPER CREATIVE BRAND”. Creative yard’s sole purpose is to nurture and guide creatives for sustainable growth and development in their chosen field.
Tope Salami has recorded a lot of successes in his professional career. He has been recognized by different international agencies, given talks on different topics and received different awards on law and other fields. Below are few of his exploits.