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An outstanding corporate and investment lawyer with significant corporate transactional experience and an excellent understanding of the Nigerian regulatory environment, she is known for resolving complex corporate and commercial legal issues. Her corporate law expertise is in structuring, coordinating and advising on market-leading transactions in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance, as well as corporate restructurings and regulatory compliance. Some of the transactions that she advised on include the listing of the first exchange traded fund (ETF) on the NSE, the merger of the Nigerian subsidiaries of the world’s largest brewery, the first dual listing by an indigenous oil and gas company on the LSE and the NSE, and on the joint venture arrangement between an indigenous oil and gas company and the world’s largest independent commodities trading company. In addition to my corporate law expertise, she has distinguished herself in the area of employment law and is recognized as a National Leader by Who’s Who Legal.
A partner in Udo Udoma’s Banking & Finance and Corporate Advisory departments, with a focus on corporate and project finance, debt restructuring, structured finance, trade finance, and debt capital markets. Onyinye has advised on the LMA investment and leveraged finance documents, and routinely drafts, reviews and negotiates these documents. She also assisted major international banks in structuring derivatives products to comply with local regulations. She advised on several syndicated transactions including the Geometric Independent Power Plant Project and the transaction between a group of Nigerian banks led by Citibank Nigeria Limited on a NGN200 billion medium term facility provided to MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
Okechukwu is the Deputy Managing Partner at G. Elias, a leading business law firm in Nigeria. he also heads the Firm’s energy practice. I have over a decade experience advising public and private sector clients across the electric power, oil and gas and finance sectors. Some of his most impactful energy sector works include the well publicized Project Gazelle (the $3.3bn forward sale of crude volumes of the NNPC financed by an Afreximbank-led syndicate of global lenders), several forward sale transactions involving crude volumes of the NNPC and NNPC JVs with aggregate or combined value exceeding US$15bn, advising a “super major” on a multibillion dollar divestment of its Nigerian assets and interests, and advising on an ongoing lucrative sale of two critical oil blocks. Okechukwu is recognized and ranked in leading internationaldirectories of lawyers, including the IFLR and Legal500. He also heads the energy practice group of Multilaw, a leading global alliance ofindependent law firms with offices in over 100 countries and is a member of the Africa Regional Committee of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN).”
Joseph Eimunjeze is a Partner at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, a top law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. His specialisations include mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and corporate restructuring, foreign investments and banking regulatory compliance. Joseph has advised various clients on various finance and project finance matters and on derivatives, foreign investments, securities (equity and debt) and foreign exchange restrictions. His corporate advisory experience includes advising local and foreign clients on a diverse range of issues such as investment structure, debt-financing, restructuring, Islamic banking and finance, corporate taxation, petroleum taxation and the restructuring of petroleum sector operations. Joseph is a chartered tax practitioner and an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
Victor Samuel is a Managing Associate at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, with over a decade of experience specialising in Project Development and Banking & Finance transactions. He has advised clients across various sectors on complex project financing and development transactions. Victor recently played a key leading role in advising Geometric Power Limited in connection with a US$50 million new debt funding provided by African Export-Import Bank, the debt restructuring of a facility of more than US$500 million provided by three Nigerian lenders to Geometric Power Aba Limited (an affiliate of Geometric Power Limited), the development Aba Integrated Power Project, and the investment in the Aba Integrated Power Project by equity investors who provided an aggregate amount of USD 19 million in new equity funding. Victor’s expertise and dedication have earned him recognition as a “Rising Star” by the IFLR1000 for three consecutive years (2021, 2022, and 2023). He was also recognised as a “Nigerian Rising Star” and named among the “40 Under 40 Leading Nigerian Lawyers” at the Nigerian Legal Awards 2021.
Dr. Jerome Okoro holds a Ph. D (Energy Law) from the University of Ibadan, with a dissertation on the development of Oil & Gas Marginal Fields in Nigeria; a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Lagos, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B), Second Class Upper from the University of Nigeria Nsukka. He is the Managing Partner of Tetralex Legal & Advisory, a law firm, based in Lagos, with specialization in Tax litigation and advisory, commercial litigation and Energy Law. Dr. Okoro’s exceptional expertise in Litigation, Tax Law, and Energy Law, is founded on rich practice experience from the top-tier law firms, and at the Legal Department of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). At FIRS, he prosecuted several cases, and got an impressive number of landmark judgments on intricate issues of Tax generally, and Petroleum Taxation in particular, in favour of FIRS. He has also won cases against some State revenue authorities that saved taxpayers huge tax liabilities.
He has published several articles in reputable local and international journals on Tax and Energy Law, contributed chapters to books on Tax and Oil & Gas Law in Nigeria, and presented public lectures and press interviews on controversial developments in tax and petroleum law, including the PIA.
Dr. Jerome Okoro is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), International Fiscal Association, and the Nigerian Bar Association.
CHISOM NDUBUISI CFE is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution, compliance, and investigations teams at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie. His main specialisations include commercial litigation, white-collar crimes, ethics and compliance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering/combating terrorist financing (AML/CFT) laws, and tax dispute resolution. Chisom has extensive experience in conducting fraud, anti-corruption, and other ethics-related internal investigations, as well as general and criminal background checks for ongoing or potential business relationships, and asset recovery.
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