LOLADE OSOSAMI

Lolade Ososami is a Partner in the firm’s taxation, corporate advisory, compliance & investigations, business establishment & corporate immigration and oil & gas teams. She advises on the tax aspects of diverse commercial transactions in various sectors including telecommunications, banking and finance, securities transactions, downstream petroleum operations, solid minerals and foreign investment.

In addition to her corporate tax advisory work, Lolade advises on upstream oil and gas taxation. She has advised extensively on the tax aspects of several production sharing contracts between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and the major IOCs operating in Nigeria and was involved in an advisory role in the arbitrations that arose from the 1993 PSCs. In 2016 she was appointed as a member of the fiscal framework and revenue management syndicate of the Legislative Framework for Petroleum Industry Reform that was organised by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly and NNPC.

As part of her corporate advisory work Lolade was part of the team that acted as Solicitors to the Issuer on the Series 2 Bond Issue by the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company Plc., under its N140 billion Medium Term Note Program. She was also part of the team that advised the Export-Import Bank of the United States on the financial structuring of a vessel acquisition by a Nigerian company providing marine services in the Nigerian oil majors. Lolade regularly advises various start-ups on regulatory compliance and employment issues. She has also advised on joint ventures, company acquisitions, private placements and investment funds.

Lolade has been featured by Who’s Who Legal in their Corporate Tax section, she has also been ranked by Corporate INTL Who’s Who Handbook as a leading lawyer in Taxation and Natural Resources. She contributes to the Chartered Institute of Taxation Practice Series and has published several papers on taxation in local and international publications including Tax Notes International and Tax Planning International Review. Lolade has facilitated several tax workshops and has been certified as a trainer in tax law by the Nigerian Bar Association Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, the Vice- Chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association and a member of the Tax Committee of the International Bar Association.