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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."

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

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

English

• 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

2013. PGD. Gas Law/LNG – Contracts and Pricing, IBC Academy, London, UK, 2013. Chartered Institute of Arbitration, London, UK. 2009. Lagos Business School, Lagos, Nigeria. 1991. Barrister at Laws, Nigerian Law School, Lagos. 1990. Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. 1985. Bachelor of Arts, University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun, Nigeria.

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