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Key contacts
Lead Partner: Uche Wigwe
Practice Manager: Funmi Olayinka-Emmanuel
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

14

Network memberships

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), International Bar Association (IBA), Capital Market Solicitors Association (CMSA), Lagos Court of Arbitration, Nigeria (LCA), Business Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN), and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)

Languages

English, French

Office Location

Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt

Key practice areas
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Equity
Firm overview

Wigwe & Partners is a one-stop commercial/corporate full-service law firm with legal expertise on a broad spectrum of practice areas in corporate and commercial practice, construction law, company secretarial services/regulatory compliance, corporate restructuring, real estate and project finance.

Key transactional practices
  • Asset finance & Management
  • Construction
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital markets (Equity & Derivatives)
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Intellectual Property
  • Entertainment & Media 
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Real estate
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • International Trade finance
Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights

Capital Market (Project Bonds):
Uche Wigwe
u.wigwe@wigweandpartners.com

Bukola Oyeneyin
b.oyeneyin@wigweandpartners.com  

Recent transactional highlights:

 

  • Advising Access Bank Plc, Solicitors to the Issue on its N100Billion Green Bond Issuance.

Construction/Arbitration:

Uche Wigwe 
u.wigwe@wigweandpartners.com

Afam Okeke Esq.
a.okeke@wigweandpartners.com

Recent transactional highlights:

  • Advising and representing the interest of its client- the multinational construction company (Elalan Construction Company) in the Arbitration proceedings.

Restructuring and Insolvency:

Abdulfatai Mohammed
a.mohammed@wigweandpartners.com

Emmanuel Ifelowo
e.ifelowo@wigweandpartners.com 

Recent transactional highlights:

  • Providing legal advisory services and representing Clients in Courts of superior jurisdiction on key matters on receivership/manager, recovery, bad debt and restructured loan facilities. We have key transactions with the following Banks: EcoBank (Nigeria) Plc., Access Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc., and Coronation Merchant Bank Plc
Sector expertise
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Tourism
Other offices

Abuja Office
No 8c, Biskra Street
Ibrahim Abacha Estate
Wuse Zone 4
Fct, Abuja
Nigeria
T: +01-2917971-5
E: info@wigweandpartners.com
W: www.wigweandpartners.com

Port- Harcourt Office
42, King Perekule Road, GRA 
Port-Harcourt City, Rivers State
Nigeria
T: +01-2917971-5
E: info@wigweandpartners.com
W: www.wigweandpartners.com

Address:
2a Obafemi Anibaba Street
Off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase One
Lagos State, 101001
Tel:+01-2917971-5 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.wigweandpartners.com
Rankings published in 2026
Capital markets : Debt
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Tier 1

ALN Nigeria | Aluko & Oyebode
17 practice areas
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Banwo & Ighodalo
17 practice areas
View full profile
G Elias & Co
17 practice areas
View full profile
Olaniwun Ajayi
15 practice areas
View full profile
Templars
16 practice areas
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Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
17 practice areas
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Tier 2

Detail Commercial Solicitors
17 practice areas
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Tier 3

Abdulai Taiwo & Co
16 practice areas
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Jackson Etti & Edu
17 practice areas
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Odujinrin & Adefulu
17 practice areas
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ǼLEX
16 practice areas
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Tier 4

Alliance Law Firm
15 practice areas
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Duale, Ovia & Alex-Adedipe (DOA)
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Deal Highlights
1 results1 results
Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Access Bank plc - Bond Issue
2021-10-01
Wigwe & Partners
Niger
Bond issue
Access Bank plc
Issuer
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