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Uzoamaka Ugoh

Senior Associate

About Uzoamaka

Uzoamaka is a goal-oriented lawyer who prides herself on providing excellent legal services that meet clients’ needs. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2019 after graduating from the Nigerian Law School with a Second-Class Honours (Upper Division). She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

Since joining the firm, she has been involved in a wide range of matters, including corporate advisory, start-ups and MSME, immigration, tax, litigation and company secretarial where she has provided company secretarial and corporate governance advisory services to a wide range of clients in various sectors of the economy.

She advises clients on a continuous basis concerning regulatory compliance with Nigerian laws. Some of these Clients include companies in the finance, hotel and beverages and transportation sectors. She also sits on statutory meetings of companies where she performs advisory and company secretarial roles. She represents foreign and local clients before courts of record in Nigeria. She is known for her diligence and ability to give solutions to clients’ problems which has in turn resulted in her gaining clients’ confidence.

  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • Nigerian Law School: BL
  • University of Abuja, Abuja: LL.B (Hons.)

  • Nigeria

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Shola Adekunle https://www.goldsmithsllp.com/our-people/shola-adekunle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shola-adekunle Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:51:37 +0000 https://jokewoods.com/?post_type=dt_team&p=6704
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Shola Adekunle

Senior Associate

About Shola

Shola is a Senior Associate in our Project Finance, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and Startups and MSME Practice Groups. He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree, LL.B (Hons.). Thereafter, he attended the Nigerian Law School and was subsequently admitted into the Nigerian Bar Association as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Shola is described by his peers as intelligent, highly dedicated and focused with a strong focus on providing sustainable solution to clients. He interfaces with regulatory agencies and also attends court in respect of clients’ matters. His experience cuts across commercial and employment litigations, Alternative Dispute Resolution, projects and infrastructure development and finance advisory, FinTech licensing, corporate/commercial and general legal advisory services among others.

He regularly conducts legal due diligence for clients and has also prepared and reviewed contractual agreements which include Concession Agreements, Employment Agreements, Distribution Agreements, Service Level Agreements, Trust Deeds, etc.

  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • Association of BRIPAN (Business Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria)
  • Nigerian Law School: BL
  • Ahmadu Bello University: LL.B (Hons.)
  • Nigeria

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Uba Prosper Onyema https://www.goldsmithsllp.com/our-people/uba-prosper-onyema/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uba-prosper-onyema Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:10:43 +0000 https://jokewoods.com/?post_type=dt_team&p=6660
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Uba Prosper Onyema

Managing Associate

About Uba

Uba is a Managing Associate in our Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practice Group. He attended Madonna University, Anambra State, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2010 and was admitted into the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in February 2012. Uba further advanced his legal expertise by obtaining a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Corporate Law from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

After a brief stint in the Legal Department of United Bank for Africa, Plc, Uba went into legal practice as an associate in a Corporate/Commercial and Litigation law firm based in Lagos where he worked in the litigation department and handled contentious matters in the superior courts including the appellate courts in Nigeria.

Uba successfully acted for a claimant in a $1.7M USD international arbitration matter brought under the ICC Rules. Uba is currently involved as part of the Goldsmiths team and other international consultants acting for a Nigerian State Government on a build, design, rehabilitate, operate and transfer public-private partnership project in Nigeria.

Uba has also acted as legal advisor to United Arab Emirate Aviation Company on various regulatory and tax matters. He also acted as part of a team of legal advisors for confidential American insurance company bondholders of US$63,400,000 in a share sale and asset acquisition in a leading commercial bank in Nigeria.

He successfully acted as a defence counsel to an oil and gas company in their over GBP 130, 000 British Pounds dispute with a former employee at the National Industrial Court.

  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • University of East Anglia, UK: LL.M
  • Nigerian Law School – BL
  • Madonna University – LL.B (Hons.)
  • Nigeria

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Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency

Goldsmiths Solicitors is indisputably one of the leading Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency law firm in Nigeria assisting clients in all Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency matters.

Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law Firm in Nigeria

Goldsmiths Solicitors is a top Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency law firm in Nigeria that boasts of a team of lawyers who combine knowledge and expertise of Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency law with our many years of experience in assisting our clients achieve their corporate restructuring and insolvency objectives. We understand the reasons why any corporate entity may want to restructure and are equipped with the experience and knowledge of the law for each of those situations that may trigger corporate restructuring.

Our Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Lawyers are at the top of restructuring and insolvency practice in Nigeria. With in-depth experience and expertise in Insolvency matters such as insolvency advisory, insolvency proceedings and litigations, we have successfully acted in many insolvency matters for corporate clients operating in the Financial services and Energy sectors.

We have represented and acted for banks, creditors, debtors, receivers, trustees, buyers, sellers, bondholders, etc. in many Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency matters in Nigeria. We continue to match our reputation as the go-to Corporate and Financial Restructuring and Insolvency law firm in Nigeria in providing our services to clients.

Our Area of Expertise include:

  • Cross-border restructuring
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Financial restructuring
  • Liquidation and receivership
  • Insolvency proceedings
  • Insolvency litigations and enforcement
  • Schemes of arrangement
  • Voluntary arrangements
  • Securitizations
  • Take-overs
  • Management buy-outs
  • Company sales and purchase
  • Due diligence investigations
  • Competition and anti-trust
  • Debt and asset-tracing and recovery
  • Dispute resolutions

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Colin Egemonye https://www.goldsmithsllp.com/our-people/colin-egemonye/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colin-egemonye Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:35:21 +0000 https://jokewoods.com/?post_type=dt_team&p=5124
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Colin Egemonye

Partner

About Colin

Colin heads our Corporate/Commercial Practice Groups and is an integral part of our Capital market, Project Finance, Business Advisory and Startups and MSME Practice Groups.

He is a dual qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Colin graduated with an LL.B (Hons.) law degree from the University of Nigeria, thereafter, he proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, where he obtained his BL and was subsequently called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993.

Upon being called to the Nigerian Bar, Colin then attended the College of Law (now the University of Law) Bloomsbury, London, where he sat the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) and cross-qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1998.

Colin also has an Executive Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Middlesex University Business School, London. He also attended the prestigious United Nations University Tokyo, Japan, where he undertook the United Nations International Courses on Environment and Sustainable Development.

Colin’s professional experience includes acting as a part of the lender’s due diligence team in a $750 million Category A Greenfield Cement plant in Calabar, Cross Rover State, Nigeria.

Acting as part of a team of international consultants, he was engaged in a $20 billion Liquefied Natural Gas Project in Nigeria. He also acted as a consultant on the £1.4 billion, Kosovo East-West Highway, connecting Pristina, Kosovo to the rest of the country and the $450 million Chiansi Irrigation Project, Lusaka, Zambia.

Other experience includes acting as the lead legal adviser to confidential American insurance bondholders of US $63 million in a share sale and asset acquisition in a leading commercial bank in Nigeria.

Colin acted as lead legal adviser to the Plateau State Government of Nigeria on a multi-million Naira Public-Private Partnership project (PPP) on the rehabilitation  of Jos International Market as well as retained as lead legal adviser to the transaction advisory team on the $1BN, 167KM Lagos/Ibadan Express Road expansion project.

  • Law Society of England and Wales

  • Nigerian Bar

  • Association of MBAs (UK)

  • Association of BRIPAN (Business Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria)
  • United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

  • Middlesex University Business School, London: MBA

  • College of Law, Bloomsbury, London: QLTT

  • Nigerian Law School, Lagos: B.L.

  • University of Nigeria: LL.B (Hons.)

  • England and Wales 
  • Nigeria

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