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Wigwe & Partners

Nigeria

Address:
2a Obafemi Anibaba Street
Off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase One
Lagos State, 101001
Nigeria

+01-2917971-5

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Key contacts:

Lead Partner: Uche Wigwe
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Practice Manager: Funmi Olayinka-Emmanuel
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Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 14
Network memberships: Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), International Bar Association (IBA), Capital Market Solicitors Association (CMSA), Lagos Court of Arbitration, Nigeria (LCA), Business Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN), and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
Languages: English, French
Office Location: Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt

Firm overview

Wigwe & Partners is a one-stop commercial/corporate full-service law firm with legal expertise on a broad spectrum of practice areas in corporate and commercial practice, construction law, company secretarial services/regulatory compliance, corporate restructuring, real estate and project finance.

Key transactional practices

  • Asset finance & Management
  • Construction
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital markets (Equity & Derivatives)
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Intellectual Property
  • Entertainment & Media 
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Real estate
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • International Trade finance

Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights

Capital Market (Project Bonds):
Uche Wigwe
u.wigwe@wigweandpartners.com

Bukola Oyeneyin
b.oyeneyin@wigweandpartners.com  

Recent transactional highlights:

 

  • Advising Access Bank Plc, Solicitors to the Issue on its N100Billion Green Bond Issuance.

Construction/Arbitration:

Uche Wigwe 
u.wigwe@wigweandpartners.com

Afam Okeke Esq.
a.okeke@wigweandpartners.com

Recent transactional highlights:

  • Advising and representing the interest of its client- the multinational construction company (Elalan Construction Company) in the Arbitration proceedings.

Restructuring and Insolvency:

Abdulfatai Mohammed
a.mohammed@wigweandpartners.com

Emmanuel Ifelowo
e.ifelowo@wigweandpartners.com 

Recent transactional highlights:

  • Providing legal advisory services and representing Clients in Courts of superior jurisdiction on key matters on receivership/manager, recovery, bad debt and restructured loan facilities. We have key transactions with the following Banks: EcoBank (Nigeria) Plc., Access Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc., and Coronation Merchant Bank Plc. 

Sector expertise

  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Tourism

Other offices

Abuja Office
No 8c, Biskra Street
Ibrahim Abacha Estate
Wuse Zone 4
Fct, Abuja
Nigeria
T: +01-2917971-5
E: info@wigweandpartners.com
W: www.wigweandpartners.com

Port- Harcourt Office
42, King Perekule Road, GRA 
Port-Harcourt City, Rivers State
Nigeria
T: +01-2917971-5
E: info@wigweandpartners.com
W: www.wigweandpartners.com