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Our preeminent Energy & Natural Resources legal team partners with Nigeria’s leading producers, investors, regulators, and innovators to secure assets, navigate complex operational landscapes, and power transformative projects. We ensure our clients’ success by listening carefully to their commercial objectives, devising client-specific strategies, and deploying our unparalleled sector expertise to achieve results with precision and efficiency.
As Africa’s largest economy and a cornerstone of global energy markets, Nigeria’s resources sector stands at a dynamic crossroads of legacy, transition, and opportunity. With the evolving energy mix, stringent regulatory evolution, global ESG imperatives, and increasing demand for both hydrocarbons and sustainable power, the sector demands legal counsel that is both deeply rooted in local realities and globally astute. The drive for operational efficiency, the deepening of local content obligations, and the critical need for robust community and environmental frameworks have made sophisticated legal partnership more vital than ever.
Our award-winning energy, regulatory, and projects lawyers have proudly served at the forefront of numerous landmark transactions and high-stakes matters, including:
- Advising an international consortium on the multi-billion-dollar Final Investment Decision (FID) and joint venture agreements for a major offshore gas development project.
- Guiding a renewable energy pioneer through the full regulatory licensing, power purchase agreement (PPA) negotiation, and grid connection process for a 100MW solar power plant.
- Successfully defending a leading exploration and production company in a high-value contractual dispute with a service provider, securing a dismissal of the core claims.
- Acting as lead Nigerian counsel for a landmark private equity acquisition of a portfolio of marginal field assets.
- Negotiating complex host community agreements and navigating related regulatory compliance for a major pipeline infrastructure project across multiple states.
As a top-tier energy law practice, we are trusted by the industry’s leading international and indigenous oil & gas companies, power generators, renewable energy developers, private equity funds, and multilateral financing institutions, as well as by regulators and service contractors. Our hands-on experience and deep transactional, operational, and dispute resolution knowledge are critical to structuring resilient deals, mitigating operational and political risk, and defending our clients’ interests in and out of court. Our energy lawyers are adept at every stage, from conceptualizing regulatory strategy and negotiating joint operating agreements to securing project financing and leading contentious litigation or arbitration.
Contact our Energy and Natural Resources Law practice for counsel that powers your project from conception to completion.
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