What We Do
Natural Resources and Energy
Our Natural Resources & Energy team is dedicated to advising and representing parties in almost all areas in this sector.
Our expertise and experience covers:
* Petroleum Law
* Gas Law
* Maritime Law
* Energy/Power Law
* Environmental Law & Policy *
The range of our clientele in the industry includes E&Ps, oil & gas marketing companies, pipeline, and power generating entities, marginal field operators as well as state-owned and state-controlled corporations.
All our natural resources and energy practitioners have at various times and levels played very active roles in this sector and by virtue of the strategic importance of the industry to the Nigerian economy, the exponential growth of our skills has acquired an international flavor.
Oil Service Sector Unit
With over a decade of practice in this field, our firm has mastered the ground and operational rules applicable to the oil+gas service sector of the Nigerian economy.
* establishment of oil service companies
* operators/service contractors contracts
* leases of properties, plant and machinery.
* split contracting between parent company and local affiliate
* community liaison for impacted areas
* environmental responsibility and compliance issues
* employment (local and expatriate) and immigration issues and applications
* procurement and renewal of D.P.R. permits/licences, etc.
Energy /Power Unit
Global trends in matters relating to power, especially in the less developed economies, informed our decision to focus attention on the emerging policy, regulatory structure and legal framework for the future of power in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
The gravamen of our service in these matters has therefore been dictated by the incipient nature of this vital sector of the sub-regional economy.
* reviewing existing policies and legal framework
* advising on the contractual construct in which new initiatives will exist
* anchoring the status of IPPs
* advising on the break-up and privatization of existing monopolies
* advising on support agreements, guarantees and incentive programmes
* advising on plant, transmission and distribution contracts
* advising on tariff and fuel issues
* advising on financial investments in the power sector deploying hybrid, multi-lateral and a cocktail of other financing instruments
Environment
Our Firm is one of the few and remains in the vanguard of the practice of environmental law and policy in Nigeria. We recognize the new trends in environmental matters, and have committed substantial resources to capacity building, for the provision of informed legal services. Together with our consulting arm, Monuyegreen Consulting, we provide services to a wide clientele.
We encourage our clients to adopt a planned and pro-active approach to environmental compliance, which makes good commercial sense and minimizes
costs and liability. We also
assist clients to formulate
and develop environment-
friendly policies.
To provide these services we ensure that we are abreast of emerging legislation and regulations at the Federal, State and Local Government levels, to be able to advise clients on their environmental responsibilities.
Our affiliations with various law firms and environmental bodies at the international level, also keeps us current on laws relating to the environment and the comparative positions in other jurisdictions.
