Aniekan Ukpanah
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Aniekan Ukpanah is the firm’s Managing Partner and heads Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie’s banking & finance, project finance, infrastructure and PPP, real estate, and intellectual property teams. He advises on the structuring and financing of large-scale construction, infrastructure and energy projects, the capital and money markets, and syndicated loans.
He co-led the team that advised an international financial institution on a US$50,000,000.00 facility to one of the top five Nigerian banks, and advises investors in the gas sector, including one of the largest extractors of natural gas in the world, in relation to various Nigerian oil & gas projects. In addition to legal services, he provides client training and presents papers on security for bank lending, secured credit transactions and legal issues associated with PPPs.
Aniekan is ranked as an Eminent Practitioner for his Banking & Finance work, and as a Leading Lawyer in the Corporate/M&A sections of Chambers Global Directory, the International Financial Law Review (Expert Guides) and the Legal 500, and is commended in Who’s Who Legal.
Slightly outside of his banking and finance focus, Mr. Ukpanah acted as team leader in a World Bank/USAID-funded project to devise a ‘road map’ to guide foreign investors who wish to invest in Nigeria. 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.
2019-till date | Managing Partner, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
2015 | Member, Akwa Ibom State Technical Committee on Ibom Deep Seaport |
2005 | Member, Central Bank of Nigeria Technical Committee on Bank Consolidation |
2002-2006 | Treasurer, Capital Markets' Solicitors Association of Nigeria |
2003 | Member, Federal Government Study Group advising the Federal Government of Nigeria on the Review of the Nigerian Tax System |
2000-2019 | Partner, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
1998-1999 | Senior Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
1989-1998 | Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
1988 | BL, Nigerian Law School |
1987 | B.A., Law and Economics, Dorset Institute (University of Bournemouth) Bournemouth, United Kingdom |
1988 | Nigeria |
Nigerian Bar Association (member, sub-committee on banking, finance and insolvency section on Business Law) |
International Bar Association |
Capital Markets' Solicitors Association of Nigeria |
Chambers and Partners Global Guide 2021 – Aniekan Ukpanah
Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie is pleased to announce that our Banking & Finance and Real Estate teams’ partner, Aniekan Ukpanah has been ranked in Chambers and Partners Global Guide 2021 for his Banking & Finance practice. For more information about Aniekan’s work and the areas of specialisation of our other highly regarded lawyers, please email uubo@uubo.org and […]
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Contact details
- St Nicholas House, (10th, 12th & 13th Floors), Catholic Mission Street, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Tel: +234 1 2774920
- Email Aniekan
- Banking & Finance, Project Finance, Infrastructure Real Estate, and Intellectual Property
What the market says…
Strong empathy bridging and managing our expectations of the reality of the legal process in Nigeria. Strong solutions focused interaction
- IFLR100