Advisory Legal Consultants is proud to announce that one of its Chief Consultants, Gbite Adeniji, has been appointed by the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, to serve as the Senior Technical Adviser on Upstream and Gas. This appointment comes on the back of several prior consulting roles he has held with the Federal Government, international development organisations and industry stakeholders

ADVISORY Legal Consultants is happy to announce that Tunde Simoyan, has returned to the firm following a fifteen-month stint at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunis and Abidjan where he served as a Legal Consultant – Private Sector Operations. During his time at the AfDB, Tunde advised on several multi-million dollar financings and public-private partnerships projects across Africa

ADVISORY Legal Consultants is pleased to announce that it has been ranked and recommended by the International Financial Law Review (“IFLR1000”) in its 2015 Guide to Energy and Infrastructure. The 2015 Guide also ranks Chief Consultants ‘Gbite Adeniji and Ike Oguine as Leading Lawyers in energy and oil and gas. Additionally, ‘Gbite Adeniji was ranked as Leading Lawyer in mining.

ADVISORY Legal Consultants is pleased to announce that Ike Oguine has now returned from a leave of absence from the Firm during which he served as the Coordinator, Legal Services (General Counsel) and Company Secretary at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

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.

ADVISORY Legal Consultants is pleased to have advised Notore Chemicals Industries Plc (“Notore”) on a gas sale agreement with Accugas Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seven Energy, and a gas transportation agreement with the Nigerian Gas Company, to ship the gas. Under the terms of the gas sale agreement, Accugas will supply gas to Notore’s fertilizer plant at a rate of 25 mmscf/day.