Kehinde Ojuawo

Kehinde is a versatile commercial lawyer, who has advised leading Nigerian and international clients on several complex and landmark transactions. In addition to his formal education, Kehinde has undergone numerous management and professional training, including (1) “School for International Financial Law,” (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University; (2) “The Core Course on International Oil and Gas Law,” (Cape Town, South Africa),  organized by the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation; (3) “Project Finance: Key Legal, Structural and Risk Issues,” (Lagos); (4) “Business Development for Law Firms,” (Lagos),  organized by the Law Society of England and Wales in association with the Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association; (5) “International Upstream and Downstream Gas Business Management Certificate Program,” (Boston, USA),  organized by International Human Resources Development Corporation; and several others.

• NNPC/Chevron JV $1.2bn and $780m petroleum drilling and development programmes financing.
• Nigerian aspects of Shell’s £47bn acquisition of BG Group
• Greenville’s conceptualization, development, financing and operation a $850m liquefied natural gas plant
• Shelf Drilling’s multi-jurisdictional $1.05bn acquisition of a fleet of 38 shallow-water and offshore oil drilling rigs from Transocean
• NNPC’s intra-group reorganization

• M&A
• Private equity
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Banking
• Energy
• Government and public policy
• Oil and gas
• Shipping

• Nigerian Bar

• Member, Nigerian Bar Association
• Member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
• Associate of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (a leadership development not-for-profit, affiliated with the Aspen Institute)

• LLM, University of Newcastle, England (2005)
• BL, Nigerian Law School, Nigeria (2004)
• LLB, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2002)