Ayodele Oni, a Shell Scholar and winner of the Young Lawyer of the Year Award in the maiden edition of the Nigerian Legal Awards, is a Senior Associate in the energy practice group...view moreAyodele Oni, a Shell Scholar and winner of the Young Lawyer of the Year Award in the maiden edition of the Nigerian Legal Awards, is a Senior Associate in the energy practice group of leading city law firm of Banwo & Ighodalo (“B&I”). Ayodele, who holds an LL.M in Energy Law from the University of Calgary-Canada, has a broad range of experience in energy (oil, gas and power) law and policy, as well as corporate and commercial matters with particular focus on power. He has acted for a broad range of clients in the energy sector and assisted on various energy transactions.
Ayodele has contributed articles in various international energy journals including the OGEL and the Energy Regulation and Markets Review. He also wrote the Nigerian chapter, of the international text on mining, Mining Global Experiences edited by C Sri Krishna. Additionally, Ayodele writes a column on energy law and policy in the Business Day newspaper. He also very recently authored a text on International Energy Security.
His experience advising on the power sector permeates the whole electric power supply industry value chain. He has advised on Fuel Supply Agreements (particularly gas), electric power generation, transmission and distribution related transactions. He also advised a number of consortia, under the auspices of B&I, (two of which were selected as preferred bidders) in the privatization programme of the successor companies to the former State-owned power monopoly company: the Power Holding Company of Nigeria.view less