Emerging Africa

Gerald Padmore is an attorney whose practice involves natural resources law, international business transactions and commercial litigation.  He was born in Liberia, the grandson of the president of Liberia, and moved to the United States in 1956. After completing Yale University in 1967 and Harvard Law School in 1970, he returned to Liberia where he taught at the University of Liberia Law School and served as Liberia’s Acting Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Finance.  Gerald escaped Liberia in 1980 after a coup d’état that overthrew the government.  He heard on the radio that several of his fellow co-workers in the government had been arrested and executed, and he escaped.

Mr. Padmore has written and lectured on legal topics relating to natural resources law, mineral development and taxation, political risk, dispute resolution and concession and investment agreements in African and other developing countries. His work has involved transactions in several African countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, and several others, as well as in Ecuador, China, Japan, and other countries.

Mr. Padmore has negotiated international mineral and other agreements both as counsel to governments and as counsel to private investors. He was selected (jointly with a Canadian law firm) to implement a World Bank project designed to improve the mineral, fiscal, environmental and related laws of the Republic of Guinea so as to enhance new mineral investments in that country. He also advised the government of Guinea on aspects of its mineral agreements with foreign investors, and the Government of Kenya through a U.N. project on revising its mining law.

Event Information

Date:  Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Time: 5:30-7:15 PM (first half hour is a reception)

Venue: Warwick Hotel, 1776 Grant Street, Denver 80203

Price: $25 for IIE Members, $35 for Non-Members, $15 IIE Young Professional Members

Please click here to register, or call 303-837-0788 x 10. If you have a free pass, you must call to register.