Folabi Kuti graduated with an LLB (upper division) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and subsequently obtained an LLM from the University of Lagos. Since joining Perchstone & Graeys in 2005, Folabi has demonstrated his skills in corporate commercial litigation, insolvency and secured credit transactions, alternative dispute resolution, and labour and employment matters.

Folabi is the supervising partner of the firm’s employment law, company law and litigation desks, and he applies his extensive knowledge and proficiency in labour matters towards advising clients with an objective to create a seamless relationship between employer and employee. Folabi has a keen interest in the development of
Nigerian law as well as those of other jurisdictions. His resourcefulness has contributed immensely to deepening the corporate and commercial advocacy
practice of the firm. A prolific writer, Folabi is widely published on a vast
range of subjects such as commercial litigation, civil procedure and literary criticism. He is also a contributing editor to the widely acclaimed UK-based publication, The Employment Law Review (as a co-contributor to the Nigerian chapter); the Squire Patton Boggs online publication on labour and employment; and a few other employment-related journals. Folabi was selected to join a panel of facilitators, drawn from seven countries across the globe, at a session organised by the
ENI International Resources legal team on nondiscrimination legislation in various countries, with particular emphasis on the application of article 111 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) convention in Nigeria. Folabi is a regular speaker/facilitator/resource person at conferences and seminars, particularly
those dealing with the evolving “world of work” and related legal issues. He is recognised in Who is Who Legal as ‘an exceptional labour and employment
lawyer with expansive knowledge of matters relating to employer-employee relations’.