Fred Adiyia is a partner with Igbanugo Partners Int’l Law Firm, PLLC. He is admitted to practice in State and Federal Courts of Minnesota, the Supreme Court of Ghana, West Africa, and The District of Columbia. He attended the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina from 1979 to 1983. He graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota in 1988. Mr. Adiyia also completed the Ghana Law School post-call program in 1999.

After law school, Mr. Adiyia worked as an Assistant Attorney General with the Department of Justice in the United States Virgin Islands. A t the Attorney General's office, Mr. Adiyia drafted, reviewed and approved government contracts for the Islands of St. Thomas, St Croix and St. John; counseled the Island of St. Thomas ' zoning board on real estate and environmental law issues; and counseled various governmental agencies on international and employment law issues. In addition, Mr. Adiyia was in charge of overseeing the Territories' compliance with a U.S. federal consent decree concerning conditions at the Islands’ prisons. He also wrote Attorney General opinions and represented the U.S. Territories in civil and criminal appeals before the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

After leaving the Attorney General’s office, Mr. Adiyia joined the law firm of Hassan & Reed, Ltd. in Minneapolis and worked mainly in the areas of litigation, banking regulation, Workers Compensation, business immigration, employment discrimination, and international law issues related to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Before joining Igbanugo Partners, Mr. Adiyia was a solo practitioner in the areas of international trade law, concentrating on Sub-Saharan Africa issues. He advised businesses and institutions both in the United States and Africa about project financing, trade regulations, as well as customary and traditional practices in Africa as they relate to the law. He has brokered, facilitated and represented companies and citizens from Sub-Saharan African countries on their trade, business and other legal transactions in the United States. Similarly, he represents U.S. companies and citizens on their business, governmental and other legal transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has developed a network of contacts in the business community and federal and state governments in most West African Countries. He is familiar with the business and socio-cultural realities of these economies, which has enhanced his versatility with the intricate details of financing projects and business transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mr. Adiyia is also qualified to handle arbitration and mediation in Sub-Saharan Africa because of his extensive training in customary arbitration and mediation at the Ghana Law School. He is also a "qualified neutral arbitrator under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice" and has extensive experience representing clients in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).