Akindeji is motivated cerebral and innovative lawyer. He has garnered over a decade’s experience working on highly complex energy transactions; he also has considerable experience in project finance transactions.
Advising the Renaissance consortium in connection with the acquisition of the entirety of the shareholding in The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (“SPDC”).
Co-leading the team providing legal advisory services to the financiers of Chappal Energy’s acquisition of 100% shares in Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited. Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited holds significant participating interests in Oil Mining Leases (“OMLs”) 128 and 129 in Nigeria.
Advised the Bureau of Public Enterprises in connection with the World Bank’s disbursement of US$500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) for the funding of the Distribution Sector Recovery Programme (“DISREP”).
Advising the Northern Nigeria Renewable Energy Company Limited on the development of a 2000MW Solar Power Project in Nigeria.
Advised a syndicate of international banks, global investment funds, and financial institutions, including Standard Chartered Bank, ABSA Bank Limited and the African Export-Import Bank in connection with the US$1,100,000,000 facility advanced to TNOG Oil and Gas Limited and TNOG Pipelines Limited (affiliates of Heirs Holdings and Transcorp Plc), for the acquisition of 45% participating interest in OML 17 from SPDC, TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited (“TotalEnergies”), and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (“NAOC”).
Advised Dangote Fertilizers Limited (“DFL”) in connection with a gas supply arrangement with the SPDC Joint Venture (comprising the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, SPDC, TotalEnergies and NAOC) and the Gas Aggregation Company of Nigeria.
- Advised ANOH Gas Processing Company Limited (an affiliate of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc) in connection with the conceptualisation, structuring, development and construction of a proposed US$500,000,000 gas processing plant.
- Asset finance
- M&A
- Project development
- Project finance
- Energy
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
- Nigeria
- New York
- LLB, University of Lagos (2007)
- BL, Nigerian Law School (2008)
- LLM, University of Pennsylvania (2011)