Bolanle Olawale Babalakin OFR SAN, (born 1 July 1960) is a Nigerian businessman, lawyer and philanthropist, and the Chairman of The Bi-Courtney Group of companies.

He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN),[1] and received the Nigerian national honour of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR)[2] in 2007.

For his A-Levels, Babalakin attended The Polytechnic, Ibadan, and subsequently gained admission into the University of Lagos in 1978, where he graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1981.

[5] That same year (1982), Babalakin was one of only three Africans admitted into Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University for the Master of Laws (LLM) Degree.

His hospitality and leisure company, Resort International Limited, was in 2006 granted a Development Lease Agreement to convert the former Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi, Lagos, into luxury blocks of 480 flats, until work was stopped by the Lagos State Government a year later, in 2007,[8] as well as the development of a 300-bed hotel at MMA2.

He was appointed alongside Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman as Honorary Adviser to the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.