Tobenna Erojikwe

Tobenna heads the firm's finance, energy & major projects practice group. He is admitted to practice in Nigeria, and in England and Wales, and has had significant practice experience in both jurisdictions.

Tobenna's core areas of practice are energy and natural resources; corporate finance; project finance; public private-partnerships; construction & real estate and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in most of the firm's energy and natural resources transactions; recent matters in this area include advising the borrower in a US$450 million financing in respect of a participating interest in an oil mining lease, and advising the acquirer in the acquisition of a major oil servicing company as part of an offshore takeover of the parent company. He recently led the team that advised the acquirer in a US$600 million debt restructuring and acquisition for a major oil and gas company in Nigeria.

Tobenna has also done significant work in project finance, public private partnerships and real estate in Nigeria and worked on various ground breaking project finance, public private partnership and construction & real estate initiatives when he worked as legal adviser to the London Borough of Barnet on Urban Regeneration Projects.

Tobenna has, in the course of his career, facilitated training courses accredited by the Law Society of England and Wales, which focus on infrastructure development and urban law. He currently serves as chairman of the board of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education of the Nigerian Bar Association and was the immediate past Chairman of the continuing professional development committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) (Lagos branch). He is also a member of the national executive committee of the NBA.

Tobenna obtained a bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2000, and admitted as a solicitor of the senior courts of England and Wales in 2005. He holds an LLM in corporate finance law from the University of Westminster.

Who's who Legal says “Tobenna is an excellent lawyer who draws praise for his wealth of experience and great understanding of the energy sector”