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Folashade Oluyadi

Olaniwun Ajayi

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Rising star partner
Practice Areas:
Project finance
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Biography

Folashade is a Partner in the firm’s Oil & Gas practice group. She routinely advises a wide range of clients across the entire value chain of the oil & gas sector. She specializes on financings and mergers & acquisitions in the sector. 

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised Seplat Energy Plc in the US$190 million and NGN 27 billion financing of the construction and development of the Assa North-Ohaji South Gas Processing Plant.
  • Advised a syndicate of local and international lenders on the refinancing of the US$382 million facility granted to Accugas Limited
  • Advised Seplat Energy Plc in its £382 million acquisition of the entire share capital of Eland Oil & Gas Plc.
  • Advised Conoil Limited in its acquisition of OMLs 86 & 88 and the US$450 million financing for the acquisition of the OMLs.
  • Advised Rain Oil Limited in the acquisition of the majority shares of Eterna Plc.
Practice areas
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Oil and gas
Bar admissions
  • Nigeria
Association memberships
  • Nigeria Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • LLM, Cambridge University, (2010)
  • BL, Nigerian Law School, (2007)
  • LLB, Obafemi Awolowo University, (2006)
Address:
Lagos
Nigeria
Tel:+234 8085896344 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.olaniwunajayi.net