Tomide Owolabi

TOMIDE OWOLABI counsels clients across a wide range of industries on a variety of technology, intellectual property and life sciences matters, including mergers and acquisitions, software development and licensing, and other commercial transactions.

Tomide earned his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, where he served as a notes editor for the Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property and received the Arlyn Miner Book Award, an award given to the student with the best objective analysis in their first-year writing section.

During law school, Tomide served as a Federal Judicial Extern to the Honorable Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, as a Legal Extern for the American Medical Association, and as a Legal Extern for eBay, Inc. Before attending law school, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign with a Master’s degree in Public Health and a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology (Pre-Medicine) with Honors, after which he worked for a healthcare technology company as an implementation consultant.

Tomide was recently selected as a member of the National Black Lawyers - “Top 40 Under 40” (2024) (Illinois).

MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

• Associate Board Member – Just the Beginning - A Pipeline Organization
• Associate Board Member – Marillac St. Vincent Family Services
• Member – Black Men Lawyers’ Association

PRO BONO

During the summer prior to joining Sidley, Tomide advised non-profit founders and diverse entrepreneurs as a Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Fellow at the Loyola Business Law Clinic.

SERVICES AND INDUSTRIES

• M&A 
• Private Equity
• Technology and Life Sciences Transactions

ADMISSIONS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Illinois

EDUCATION

• Northwestern School of Law, J.D., 2022 (cum laude)
• University of Illinois, M.P.H., 2018
• University of Illinois, B.S., 2017 (Honors Distinction)