Okechukwu Okoro

We were founded in 1994. Challenging corporate finance litigation and transactions – especially mergers and acquisitions, capital markets work and structured lending – have always and will always have a central place in our repertoire.

We have become one of Nigeria’s leading business law firms. We have always had an international outlook. We have a reputation for, and an outstanding record of, carrying out critical, innovative and complex work to the highest standards.

We have advised and represented our clients on several of the most significant recent developments in Nigerian business law practice, particularly in the fields of sales of businesses, infrastructure financings denominated in hard currencies and tax and securities law disputes.

We are organized as seven practice skill groups operating across eight sectors of the economy. The practice groups are: dispute resolution; corporate (including mergers and acquisitions and private equity); banking; capital markets; tax; intellectual property; and employment.

The eight sectors are: financial services, oil-and-gas; electric power; telecommunications, media and technology; agribusiness, food and healthcare; trade and industry; transport and logistics; and construction and real estate (“fast moving consumer goods” occur in several of these sectors). There are clients of many nationalities and every size in these sectors.

They range from foremost global multinational enterprises to a number of ambitious, home-grown fledglings, from government-controlled enterprises (we have advised on numerous privatizations) to companies controlled entirely by private sector actors.

We have and maintain numerous contacts in Nigerian business and government circles, and with law firms and lawyers’ organizations based both in and outside Nigeria. We are a member of Africa Legal Network (ALN), an association of leading independent law firms founded and based in Africa. We are also quite unusual in having the quality management certification of ISO 9001:2008. 

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• LL.B (Ebonyi State University).
• Member of the Nigerian Bar
• Sometime top graduating student at Ebonyi State University’s law faculty.
• Recognised as a Rising Star by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR).
• Group: Disputes; Energy.
• A Partner.

Okechukwu Okoro is a Partner in G Elias & Co. His practice focuses on electric power, oil and gas, banking and finance, labour, immigration and dispute resolution. He has advised both public and private sector, local and international clients on several large, innovative, and complex transactions across in the electric power and oil and gas sectors.

Okechukwu is recognized and ranked in the leading international directories of lawyers including the IFLR and Legal 500. He has published well-considered articles on topical legal issues in the Nigeria energy space.

Some of Okechukwu’s work include:

• advice to lenders of circa USD10billion in aggregate under forward sale funding structures for the NNPC, Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total entities.
• advice to Ibadan and Yola Distribution Companies on the Disbursement Agreement with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission under a scheme to support the sector to the aggregate tune of NGN213bn.
• advice to All On Partnerships for Energy Access Limited by Guarantee, a Shell funded impact investment company (involved in interventions to address access to energy challenge in Nigeria) on sundry renewable energy issues including, investments and funding of renewable energy companies in Nigeria.
• advice to an indigenous oil and gas company on a US$214million senior reserve-based lending for the purpose of financing its oil mining assets
• advice to the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) on a 10MW solar power project in Kano State.
• advising two successful bidders on the recently concluded 2020 marginal oilfield bid round.
• advice to BUA/Siemens consortium on a 950MW independent power project with the NNPC/GPIC in Kaduna State.
• represented (and currently represents) Nigeria’s leading telecommunications company on a series of intellectual property disputes/cases before Nigerian courts.
• represented (and currently represents) a leading Pan-African Bank in a class action instituted by over 1500 former employees of the bank with a claim in excess of N2 billion.

Contact:

Okechukwu Okoro can be reached at [email protected]; +234 803 770 1610.

LinkedIn profile - https://ng.linkedin.com/in/okechukwu-joachim-okoro-9330b5109

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