Onyinye Okafor > Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie > Lagos, Nigeria > Lawyer Profile

Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
ST NICHOLAS HOUSE (12TH FLOOR)
CATHOLIC MISSION STREET
LAGOS
Nigeria
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Work Department

Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Fintech, Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring, Energy & Infrastructure

Position

Partner

Career

2018 Partner
2015 Managing Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
2010 Senior Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
2009 Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, Lagos
2008 Visiting Associate, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, London
2008 Intern, BaFin, Frankfurt Germany
2005 Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, Lagos
2004 Intern, Okocha & Okocha, Manuchim Chambers, Port Harcourt
2003 Intern, Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgore, Lagos

Languages

English

Memberships

Nigerian Bar Association

 

Education

2015 Middlesex University Post Graduate, Certificate in mechanics of Project Finance
2008 Goethe University Frankfurt, LL.M Finance
2004 Nigerian Law School Victoria Island Lagos, BL
2002 Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, LL.B.

Lawyer Rankings

Nigeria > Banking, finance and capital markets

(Next Generation Partners)

Onyinye OkaforUdo Udoma & Belo-Osagie

Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie‘s practice houses a team praised by clients as ‘experts in banking and finance as well as in capital markets’, and fields experience in handling asset and acquisition finance, debt restructuring, and Islamic finance. Aniekan Ukpanah and Daniel Agbor are experts in project finance, while Yinka Edu’s workload takes in corporate, leveraged and structured finance. Adeola Sunmola and Onyinye Okafor are well versed in advising on syndicated lending transactions, and Joseph Eimunjeze has experience in regulatory and compliance issues. Other key practitioners include Victor Samuel, Nicholas OkaforPamela Onah and Lisa Esamah.

Nigeria > Energy and natural resources

The practice at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie is home to a ‘robust team of specialists‘ with a solid track record in handling energy and infrastructure projects. The ‘team player’ Nicholas Okafor handles greenfield and brownfield projects; Aniekan Ukpanah is well versed in advising on structuring and project financing matters; and Folake Elias-Adebowale advises on upstream and downstream petroleum work. Adeola Sunmola regularly advises on renewable energy developments, project finance and syndicated lending transactions; Onyinye Okafor is also active in the latter two areas. Victor Samuel and Godson Iwuozo have expertise in oil and gas, infrastructure and power transactions. Maryam Asabe Salami and Chisom Okolie are also singled out.