Hogan Lovells (JD Supra Nigeria)

On 11 April 2018, Hogan Lovells International LLP hosted the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Adesola Oguntade CFR, CON at its London office. Ambassador Oguntade, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria was accompanied by a delegation including the Minister/Head of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Ahmed Sule.

On 11 September 2017, the President Buhari-led government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, announced plans to grant operating concessions over four of the ten international airports in Nigeria – the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos State, Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja, Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State and Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano

In this hoganlovells.com interview, Hogan Lovells counsel Jerome Finnis discusses how disparate factors, such as force majeure events and changes in law, can provoke disruptions in Nigeria’s oil and gas supply chain. He also talks about how some companies and investors seek to protect their interests by including "stabilization" and arbitration clauses in their long-term contracts.

(a) You have been working in the Nigerian Capital Markets space for about 11 years now - what would you say has kept you attracted to the Market? My mother introduced me to Capital Markets at a very young age. She strongly believed in the capacity of the Market to create and preserve wealth, and so back then, she was acquiring specific dividend paying stocks.

Asked to speak on the prestigious opening panel at the NBA2017 in Lagos, I was both honored and somewhat perturbed when I realized that the 10,000 delegates number promised was not a decimal point out. The event was frankly extraordinary as a feat of logistics and content.

In November 2016, the U.S. government’s inter-agency Power Africa development initiative issued its third handbook entitled “Understanding Natural Gas and LNG Options” for the purpose of promoting a better understanding of LNG project development in sub-Saharan Africa. Impressive in its breadth, the handbook covers topics such as the LNG value chain and typical project structures, the process of...

The AYA team is made up of young lawyers with a passion for arbitration who are seeking to develop young arbitrators and to "give them a face in the arbitration space". One of the goals of AYA is to overcome the perception that arbitration in Nigeria is a "closed shop" and open only to senior practitioners.