With strong legal skills, practical and experienced business advice, innovative solutions and timely response, we advise on all aspects of energy projects and transactions, joint ventures, alliances and mergers and acquisitions, oil & gas and electricity regulatory law.

We represent a varied range of clients in the petroleum industry, including explorers, marginal field operators, producers, pipeline and transportation owners, and operators, facilities owners and operators, lenders, private investors, marketers, aggregators, retailers, and traders.

Significant Areas of Service

• Development of opportunities in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, including securing of licenses, permits, front-end engineering and design, engineering, procurement, construction management and construction
• Joint ventures, farmout, operating, royalty, participation and transportation agreements
• Acquisitions and dispositions of oil and natural gas properties and facilities
• Commodities trading and marketing
• Share transactions involving both private and public companies
• Natural gas marketing issues and sales agreements
• Construction, financing and operating of petrochemical plants and pipelines
• Corporate reorganizations
• Environmental issues
• Oil and natural gas taxation issues, including cross‑border transactions
• Oil and natural gas financings
• Co‑generation projects
• LNG projects
• Onshore and offshore drilling contracts
• International transactions

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