Desmond Ogba is a Partner in the Finance and Energy & Projects Practice Groups at Templars. He has significant experience advising project companies and sponsors, commercial lenders, multilateral and export credit agencies and other financial institutions on diverse transactions including project finance, power projects and other infrastructure development, strategic investments, international capital markets issuances, structured finance and corporate finance.
He has either advised or is advising on a vast majority of the recent wave of purely project financed power projects in Nigeria. Desmond was recently appointed to the Technical Committee of the Nigerian Senate on Financial Law Reform. He also serves as Vice-Chairman of the Banking, Finance and Insolvency committee of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law.
- Azura Power West Africa on the development and financing of the pioneering US$1 billion Azura-Edo independent power plant;
- Seven Energy Group on the negotiation of the first and as yet, only World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee in support of a gas supply transaction in Nigeria.
- OPIC, AFDB and another development finance Institution on the financing and development of an on-grid solar power project.
- NSIA and Julius Berger as sponsors on the development of the $1 billion Second Niger Bridge and Toll Road project.
- The NNPC and its joint venture partners (as sponsors) on a c. US$1 billion alternative funding structured as a pre-export financing for the purposes of funding field development programmes.
- ExxonMobil on the acquisition by Blackstone Group LP of all the interests of ExxonMobil’s in Qua Iboe 540 MW gas-fired power station in Akwa Ibom State.
- Engie Group (the world’s largest independent power producer) on its investment in a number of power projects in Nigeria.
- The lenders/arrangers on a US$325 million structured financing to the New Age Group for development of upstream assets in Nigeria including the Aje field located in OML 113 offshore Lagos
- Banking
- M&A
- PPP/PFI
- Project development
- Project finance
- Energy
- Banking
- Financial services
- Natural resources
- Social infrastructure
- Nigeria
- Ebonyi State University