International Finance Corporation
Our Partner was engaged by the Africa Office of IFC in Johannesburg, South Africa as a Financial Sector Specialists to provide advisory support for Central Bank of Nigeria on the establishment of the National Collateral Registry (NCR), carrying out a series of evaluation exercises on the legal compliance of the NCR and the user experience and compliance levels by institutional users in the banking sector. Tasks entailed developing technical approach/methodology to assignment, legal audit, heuristsic evaluation, survey of twelve banks and production of a series of reports in aggregate of circa 200pages.
Easyfuel Limited
We advised the issuer and helped draft and negotiate documentation on the first private placement by cleint, the first electronic payments company to focus on the downstream petroleum sector in Nigeria, and one of the first six PTSPs licensed by Central Bank of Nigeria.
Royal Roots Communication Network Limited
We advised the issuer and helped draft and negotiate documentation on the first private placement by cleint, owners and operators of R2TV, a television channel and television production facility broadcasting across West Africa from Lagos, Nigeria.
Middle Band Solar One Limited
We advised on completion matters for the aqcuisition of controlling stake by a Spanish renewable energy company in the capital of client. a pioneer renewable energy company in Nigeria.
International Corporate Governance Network, ICGN, UK
Our Partner served on the Integrated Business Reporting Committee of ICGN, a network of the world’s leading institutional investors and their professional advisers together holding over US$17trillion in AUM. Therein, he worked with a group of other global professionals selected to develop the ICGN official ‘Integrated Business Reporting Guidelines’ approved at the annual general meeting of June 2015.
Financial System Strategy (FSS) 2020 of CBN
Our Partner served on the Legal Implementation Committee of FSS 2020 of Central Bank of Nigeria, where he served on the sub-committees on Credit & Mortgage and Financial Markets.
Nextzon Business Services Limited- Regional Expansion services in the Nigertian financial services sector
Our Partner led legal advisory team of a consulting firm assisting Nigerian banks in cross-border expansions across West and Central Africa (through strategies as diverse as fresh licences or M&A), thus gaining insights into the corporate, banking and securities (capital market) laws of the three key jurisdictions in the sub-region— Nigerian, Ghanaian and the OHADA francophone system.
Oceanic Bank International Plc (now part of Ecobank, Nigeria)
Our Partner advised the client on, and developed legal documentation for, the cross-border acquisition of Amalgamated Bank Limited of Ghana, later rebranded as Oceanic Bank Limited, Ghana.
Oceanic Insurance, Nigeria
Our Partner advised on, and developed legal documentation for, the acquisition of Corporate Ideals Insurers Limited, later rebranded into Oceanic Insurance Company Limited, currently Old Mutual, Nigeria.
Diverse debt and equity transactions
We have advised clients through the entire gamut of financing for start-up and growth phase businesses, entailing equity (private placement) and debt, with the latter entailing various forms of securitisation. Clients here include those in Technology, Media, Energy and other sectors.
