F. O. Akinrele & Co. is a commercial law firm with over 40 years experience in the Corporate and Commercial sector. The firm is led by two Senior Advocates of Nigeria (the Nigerian equivalent of Queen's Counsel), namely, Chief F. O. Akinrele and Mr. Demola Akinrele, who specialise in commercial/corporate litigation and alternative dispute resolution. There are two other partners in the firm, Messrs Adedolapo Akinrele and Adamu Usman specialising in commercial practice, each of whom has well over ten years experience in the field and has been actively involved in advising upon various and diverse international transactions. The four partners are supported by eleven Associates. Aside from its corporate head office in Lagos, the firm has two associate offices in FCT, Abuja and Port-Harcourt.

F.O. AKINRELE & CO. has, between the 1960s and 1980s, gradually expanded its practice from a general law practice into the specialized corporate sector and is now internationally respected for its ability to provide specialist legal advice & solutions, particularly to the Maritime, Oil & Gas and Corporate sectors. The firm is currently very active in the telecommunications and downstream energy sector by virtue of the recent deregulation of both sectors. The firm currently manages a West African Network involving a Network of correspondence law firms in 16 West African Countries (including Nigeria) from Senegal to Angola.

The firm's client base includes - Ship owners, Protection and Indemnity Associations, Underwriters, Oil & Gas Exploration Companies, Multinationals with subsidiaries in Nigeria.