Gbenga Oyebode

Gbenga has over 35 years of experience in corporate and commercial practice with emphasis in the following practice areas: Energy and natural resources, Foreign investment and privatisation, Telecommunications, Project finance, Aviation.

He has been described by Chambers Global as a “Consummate deal maker who has received plaudits from clients and peers alike for his corporate expertise”.

• Advised on US$1.275 billion financing of the Exxon Mobil Natural Gas Liquid II Project.
• Advised on US$1.06 billion financing of trains four and five of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Plant Expansion Project.
• Advised on Implementation of the first private Independent Power Production (“IPP”) Project in Nigeria by a major international electricity corporation.
• Advised on US$3.5 Billion Financing of the NNPC and Mobil Producing Unlimited Satellite Oil Field Project.

• Banking
• Covered bonds
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Trade finance

• Banking
• Financial services
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Tech and telecoms

• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators [Fellow]
• Nigerian Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• International Bar Association

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb)
• Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI)

• Certificate in Corporate Governance, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, (2014)
• Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA (2007)
• Admitted to the New York Bar, (1983)
• LL.M, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, (1982)
• Called to the Nigerian Bar, (1980)
• LL.B Hons, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, (1979)