The firm has for many years advised energy, utility and natural resources companies. Our practice is divided into projects, regulatory and dispute resolution.

Key Services

• Joint ventures, shareholder and other types of agreements.
• Upstream projects
• LNG
• Pipelines
• Decommissioning
• Refineries
• Power generation, including IPP’s
• Advising on energy legislation, petroleum and associated regulations and licensing regimes, including DPR and NNPC licenses and permits.
• Advising utility companies.
• Advising on financial services regulation relevant to energy trading activities.

Recent Work

• We were recently engaged by the Federal Government of Nigeria to handle a number of disputes involving losses totalling $ USD 500 million relating to the vandalisation of pipelines and the security implications.
• Our firm recently advised Agip petroli on the implications of its divestiture of its stake in the indigenous arm of the company.
• Currently part of a team of lawyers representing the Federal Government of Nigeria on Arbitration in respect of disputes arising out of a power purchase agreement by one of the largest multinational Energy Companies.