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Business Support

Our business support and administrative team consists of 12 highly skilled and dedicated professionals who understand that every successful enterprise is founded on strong administration. This highly experienced and qualified team enables the provision of first class business and legal advisory services to our clients. This team is headed by Joy Harrison-Abiola, the firm’s more...

Our Lawyers

ACAS is made up of 6 visionary Partners, who are each recognised and ranked as first class in their respective fields of practice and 34 other lawyers who have bought into the exacting standards and core values of the founders of the Firm. We take great pride in our lawyers who embody the best of our profession. In the breadth and depth of their collective expertise, they meet the firm’s high standards and provide outstanding services to our clients.

Partners, Senior Associates, Senior Counsel, Associates, Practice Administrator

Partners

Sola Adepetun, Afolabi Caxton-Martins, Funke Agbor, Felicia Kemi Segun, Taiwo Afonja, Ben Unaegbunam

Sola Adepetun

Sola Adepetun is a Partner in the Energy and Project Finance Group of the firm, specializing in energy and project finance law issues and particularly in relation to oil and gas development project negotiations and the acquisition and disposal of petroleum exploration and production companies and interests.

With 29 (twenty-nine) years of legal experience, Sola is responsible for advising many international companies on foreign investment laws, corporate establishments and accreditation issues, the Nigerian licensing regime and generally on strategic alliances in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry. He advises on petroleum taxation, industry and general business compliance and commercial matters ancillary to oil and gas corporate activities.

He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the International Bar Association Section on Energy & Natural Resources Law. He has also been a member of the Oil and Gas Sector Reform Implementation Committee of the National Council of Privatisation, the pioneer board of the African Institute of Petroleum and the news section editorial board of the international energy law and taxation review.

Sola has been listed in several international directories, including as:

“a leading Nigerian Energy and Natural Resources Lawyer” – The Chambers Global Guide, the World’s Leading Lawyers(http://www.chambersandpartners.com/), 2002 – 2008 and 2010 editions

“Praised for his extensive industry knowledge. He is prominent on asset acquisition” – 2010 edition
“Solid, painstaking lawyer who has spent a lot of time developing a real knowledge base” – 2008 edition
“Intellectual and Academic” – 2007 edition
“At The Top of the Tree in Energy Law” – 2006 edition
“Excellent Energy Law Practitioner” – 2004/2005 edition
Sole listing in Band 1 in the 2002-2003 edition

“one of the world’s foremost legal practitioners in oil & gas” – Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers, 2006 – 2010 editions;
“a professional services provider” – Who’s Who in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry, 2010 edition;
“one of the world’s leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers” – Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers (www.expertguides.com) (“Euromoney’s Expert Guides”) 2003 – 2008 and 2010 editions;
“an Oil and Gas Specialist” – The Legal 500”, 2009 edition; and
“a leading individual in Nigerian Energy Law” – “PLC Which Lawyer?” Yearbook 2009 (www.whichlawyer.com).