Akindeji Oyebode

Akindeji is motivated cerebral and innovative lawyer. He has garnered over a decade’s experience working on highly complex energy transactions; he also has considerable experience in project finance transactions.

• Advising the Renaissance consortium in connection with the acquisition of the entirety of the shareholding in The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (“SPDC”).
  
  
• Co-leading the team providing legal advisory services to the financiers of Chappal Energy’s acquisition of 100% shares in Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited. Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited holds significant participating interests in Oil Mining Leases (“OMLs”) 128 and 129 in Nigeria.
  
  
• Advised the Bureau of Public Enterprises in connection with the World Bank’s disbursement of US$500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) for the funding of the Distribution Sector Recovery Programme (“DISREP”).
  
  
• Advising the Northern Nigeria Renewable Energy Company Limited on the development of a 2000MW Solar Power Project in Nigeria.
  
  
• Advised a syndicate of international banks, global investment funds, and financial institutions, including Standard Chartered Bank, ABSA Bank Limited and the African Export-Import Bank in connection with the US$1,100,000,000 facility advanced to TNOG Oil and Gas Limited and TNOG Pipelines Limited (affiliates of Heirs Holdings and Transcorp Plc), for the acquisition of 45% participating interest in OML 17 from SPDC, TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited (“TotalEnergies”), and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (“NAOC”).
  
  
• Advised Dangote Fertilizers Limited (“DFL”) in connection with a gas supply arrangement with the SPDC Joint Venture (comprising the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, SPDC, TotalEnergies and NAOC) and the Gas Aggregation Company of Nigeria.
  
  
• Advised ANOH Gas Processing Company Limited (an affiliate of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc) in connection with the conceptualisation, structuring, development and construction of a proposed US$500,000,000 gas processing plant.

• Asset finance
• M&A
• Project development
• Project finance

• Energy
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas

• Nigeria
• New York

• LLB, University of Lagos (2007)
• BL, Nigerian Law School (2008)
• LLM, University of Pennsylvania  (2011)