Patrick Osu

Mr. Patrick A. Osu is a transaction lawyer with varied experience. With over twenty years’ experience, he has worked on various transactions, and has shown exemplary written and oral advocacy in handling both litigation and corporate commercial matters.

• Advised a leading Oil and Gas company in the $700 Million USD variation contract process in respect in respect of the Southern Swamp Associated Gas Solution project for the development of production facilities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
• Currently advising a Nigerian conglomerate on the infrastructure and real estate development of the Abuja city, a mixed use city centre with a value of over $900 Million USD.
• Advised on the $350 Million USD EPC transaction for the development of a 4000 MT per day Clinker Cement Plant in the Sagamu, Nigeria.
• Advised a Nigerian conglomerate in the acquisition of the Cape Three Point Oil Block in Ghana, and two other Oil Blocks in Sierra Leone and Senegal.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: High yield
• Competition
• Covered bonds
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Hedge funds
• Investment funds
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Trade finance

• Aviation
• Banking
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Gaming
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

• Nigeria

• Nigeria Bar Association
• Internationa; Aviation Lawyers
• FCIArb (Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

• LL.B (Hons), University of Calabar, (1994)
• B.L (Hons), Nigerian Law School, (1995)