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Position: Senior Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Nigeria
Practice Areas:
Banking
Project finance
Capital markets
Energy and infrastructure
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Energy
Transport
Utilities
Real estate
Construction and materials
Oil and gas
Social infrastructure
Tourism
Languages:
English
Biography

Aniekan Ukpanah is the Senior Partner of the law firm of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie. He heads the firm’s banking and finance, project finance, and real estate teams. He advises on the structuring and financing of large-scale construction, infrastructure, and energy projects, the capital and money markets, and syndicated loans.

Recent matter/case highlights
  • Advised First Concept & Properties Limited in relation to the US$44,150,000 loan facility from Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
  • Advised Starsight Power Utilities Limited on the development and deployment of distributed solar power solutions  in the financial services and energy sectors
  • Advised Union Bank of Nigeria PLC on its disposal of its real estate assets in Nigeria
  • Advised Duval Properties Limited on the mixed-use development of its approximately 314,488.89 square metres of land situate around the unique water side location of Jabi Lake, Abuja.
Key practice areas
  • Banking

  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Structured finance/securitisation

Sector expertise
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Real estate
  • Transport

Bar admissions
  • Nigeria
Association memberships
  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • B.A., Law and Economics, Dorset Institute (University of Bournemouth) Bournemouth, UK (1987);
  • BL, Nigerian Law School (1988)
Address:
Lagos
Tel:+234 1 462 2307-12 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.uubo.org