Dapo Akinosun SAN
Senior Partner, SimmonsCooper Partners
Dapo is a Founding and Senior Partner at SimmonsCooper Partners. His legal expertise spans across multiple sectors, including gas, banking and finance, energy, aviation, capital markets, infrastructure, maritime & shipping, and project finance.
Dapo has contributed to legal scholarship particularly in the oil and gas sector. His notable works include the article “Potential Effects of the PIB 2012 on Existing and Future Business Arrangements in Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Industry: The Legal Perspective,” published in Energy Today, and co-authoring the book "Understanding Natural Gas: A Nigerian Perspective."
Membership of Professional Associations
• Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria
• Nigerian Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• Global Law
• American Bar Association
• Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF)
• Chartered Institute of Arbitration
• Notary Public of Nigeria
• Centre for Petroleum Information
Background
• PGD. Gas Law/LNG – Contracts and Pricing, IBC Academy, London, UK, 2013
• Chartered Institute of Arbitration, London, UK, 2010
• Lagos Business School, Lagos, Nigeria, 2009
• Barrister at Laws, Nigerian Law School, Lagos, 1991.
• Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, 1990
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun, Nigeria, 1985
Experience & expertise
Selected Matters
Some of Dapo's key projects and contributions include:
• Led advisory services for Gas Aggregation Company Nigeria (GACN), developing and reviewing key transactional and network templates, including gas supply agreements, escrow arrangements, and aggregation rules.
• Provided strategic counsel to major financial entities on exiting and divesting from the Ibom Power Project.
• Successfully represented Kano State and the Federal Government in a high-profile case against Pfizer Inc., securing a $75 Million settlement.
• Advised a Venture Capital Company on the negotiation of a $17.5 million loan facility.
• Advised the Osun State Government on implementing public-private partnership (PPP) and limited liability partnership (LLP) policies and laws, and on the concession of statewide beef chain and abattoir projects.
• Represented a project management company in the construction of an aircraft hangar at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, and advised a transnational corporation on investing in a private terminal at the same airport.
Sectors
Energy
Capital Markets
Project Finance
Aviation
Public Sector
Services
Criminal Litigation
Commercial and Civil Litigation
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Energy, Projects & Transport
Special Tribunals
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
Experience & expertise
Some of Dapo's key projects and contributions include:
• Led advisory services for Gas Aggregation Company Nigeria (GACN), developing and reviewing key transactional and network templates, including gas supply agreements, escrow arrangements, and aggregation rules.
• Provided strategic counsel to major financial entities on exiting and divesting from the Ibom Power Project.
• Successfully represented Kano State and the Federal Government in a high-profile case against Pfizer Inc., securing a $75 Million settlement.
• Advised a Venture Capital Company on the negotiation of a $17.5 million loan facility.
• Advised the Osun State Government on implementing public-private partnership (PPP) and limited liability partnership (LLP) policies and laws, and on the concession of statewide beef chain and abattoir projects.
• Represented a project management company in the construction of an aircraft hangar at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, and advised a transnational corporation on investing in a private terminal at the same airport.
Sectors
Energy
Capital Markets
Project Finance
Aviation
Public Sector
Services
Criminal Litigation
Commercial and Civil Litigation
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Energy, Projects & Transport
Special Tribunals
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
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