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Dan heads the firm's private equity and corporate advisory teams. His corporate advisory
specialisation include mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and derivatives transactions,
debt restructuring, debt to equity conversions and fund establishment. He has also advised on a
range of corporate and financing transactions involving local and international. He has published
several articles on banking, secured credit transactions, the Nigerian debt conversion programme,
global depositary receipts, foreign investment, international joint venture agreements and
guarantees and tax. He chairs and serves on the boards of various blue chip companies. As a leader,
he is also ranked as “highly regarded” by the International Financial Law Review (“IFLR”) and
featured in the IFLR (Expert Guides), the Practical Law Company “Which Lawyer” Guides, the Legal
500 and Who’s Who Legal.

Aniekan is the firm's Managing Partner and he heads Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie's banking and
finance teams, its project finance, infrastructure and PPP, real estate and intellectual property teams.
He advises on the structuring and financing of construction, energy project, hotel, shopping mall,
road and railway transactions, the capital and money markets and syndicated loans. He also advised
on transportation concessions and transportation infrastructure projects. He has also acted as local
legal adviser in relation to high profile projects including various lending syndicates on financing
operators in the telecommunications, manufacturing, steel fabrication and power sectors. He also
advises investors in the gas sector including one of the largest extractors of natural gas in the world
in relation to various Nigerian oil and gas projects. Aniekan is ranked as a leading lawyer in the
corporate/M&A sections of Chambers Global Directory and the International Financial Law Review
(Expert Guides) and the Legal 500, and is commended in Who’s Who Legal 2009. He is a member of
the governing council of Obong University, the first licensed private university in Akwa Ibom State.
He also chairs and serves on the boards of various private limited liability companies.
Folake is a corporate team partner and co-head of the firm’s private equity, M&A and oil and gas
teams. She advises private equity houses, financial investors, corporates, investee entities and
other clients on diverse matters including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestments,
restructuring and compliance matters across various sectors and industries. She is a member of the
legal and regulatory council of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and the
legal and regulatory committees of the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) and the Private
Equity and Venture Capital Association, Nigeria (PEVCA). She sits on PEVCA’s inaugural board and
serves on the technical committee established by the Securities and Exchange Commission and
PEVCA to assist with the review of Nigerian private equity regulations. Commended in The Lawyer
UK’s '’Africa Elite’' Private Equity Report for her private equity practice, Folake is also recognised
and ranked by other independent rankings publications including Chambers Global Guide 2020;
Chambers FinTech Guide (Nigeria) 2020; The IFLR1000; The Legal 500; Who’s Who Legal Global
Guide (M&A and Governance); and Who’s Who Legal Nigeria.

Ozofu is a partner in Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, where she is part of the firm’s Corporate Advisory,
Private Equity, and Mergers & Acquisitions teams. She is recognised as an extremely resourceful and
versatile adviser and has advised on various areas of the law including, corporate and commercial
law, private equity, corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance,
labour and employment, company secretarial practice. She also co-heads the firm’s pro bono
practice. She advised on various equity investments, usually leading the teams that carry out legal
due diligence reviews in connection with various investments and divestments. She was part of the
teams that advised clients such as Kellogg, Verod Capital, OCP Africa, Synergy Capital, Carlyle and
Actis on various investments in Nigeria. Ozofu is a Vice-Chairperson of the Nigerian Bar Association-
Section on Business Law Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings. She
was recognised in 2020 by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) as one of the IFLR1000
Women Leaders in Nigeria. She is rated as a ‘highly-regarded lawyer’ for her Mergers & Acquisitions,
and Private Equity practice, by The IFLR1000 2020.

Christine is a Partner in the firm's Private Equity, M&A and Corporate Advisory teams. She advises local and
international private equity funds and fund managers throughout the life cycle of such funds – from fund
formation to structuring, documenting and executing investments/ acquisitions and co-investments, through to
exits. She has advised on investments in a variety of sectors financial services, healthcare, telecommunications,
FinTech, and FMCG, amongst others. She has also advised on international lending transactions including
syndicated loans. Christine has been involved in a diverse range of financial and capital markets transactions
including private placements and, as part of her Asset Management and Collective Investment practice, the
establishment and registration of mutual funds. She also advises on issues relating to the Nigerian bond market.
As part of her corporate advisory practice, Christine routinely leads due diligence reviews, in the course of which
she assesses the viability of targeted businesses for merger, investment and financing transactions. Christine
contributes to several publications on private equity. She has co-authored the Nigerian chapter of four editions of
the Asset Management Review published by Law Business Research and is also a contributor to the International
Comparative Legal Guide on Private Equity in Nigeria. Christine also regularly contributes to the credit and
security section of the World Bank's Annual 'Doing Business in Nigeria' surveys. Christine is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Legal Business Unit of BusinessDay.

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