ADVISORY Legal Consultants is pleased to have received the “Africa M&A Deal of the Year” Award in recognition of the firm’s representation of ConocoPhillips (COP) in the $1.5 billion divestment of COP’s Nigerian upstream business to Oando Energy Resources. The award was presented at an annual gala organized by Global M&A Network that held at the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum in New York on March 31, 2015.

The M&A Atlas Awards, Global Major Markets exclusively honours excellence for deals valued above 1 billion USD in the categories of deals, dealmaker teams and outstanding firms. Winners are selected independently based on the deal performance metrics.