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NIGERIA: Advocaat <strong>Law</strong> Practice<br />

Head office: <strong>The</strong> Services Room, 3 rd Floor, <strong>Law</strong> Union & Rock Building, 14, Hughes Avenue,<br />

Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria<br />

Telephone: +234 –805 - 650- 0577, +234 (1) 4531004, 2714042 - 3<br />

Email: info@advocaat-law.com<br />

Web: www.advocaat-law.com<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r branches: Freetown, Sierra Leone<br />

Advocaat <strong>Law</strong> Practice (ALP) is a successful full service law firm based in Lagos, Nigeria with<br />

a representative office in Freetown, Sierra Leone. ALP is structured on a partnership basis<br />

and has a team of partners, associates and support personnel all of whom jointly provide<br />

professional services of <strong>the</strong> highest standards by combining an awareness of <strong>the</strong> clients’<br />

needs with practical and innovative solutions. ALP is comprised of multi-faceted practice<br />

groups which include inter alia: banking & finance, charities & NGOs, construction &<br />

infrastructure, corporate & commercial, dispute resolution, energy & natural resources,<br />

government & public relations, immigration & nationality, information technology &<br />

telecommunications, intellectual property, media & entertainment, taxation, and<br />

transportation.<br />

Members of ALP belong to various professional bodies, including <strong>the</strong> Nigerian Bar<br />

Association, <strong>the</strong> <strong>International</strong> Bar Association, <strong>the</strong> Honourable <strong>Society</strong> of Lincolns Inn (UK),<br />

<strong>the</strong> Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and <strong>the</strong> Association of <strong>International</strong> Petroleum<br />

Negotiators. Additionally, ALP has forged professional affiliations with international law <strong>firms</strong><br />

allowing ALP to provide a broader, all-encompassing service to local and international clients.<br />

ALP was nominated for Energy Firm and Telecoms Firm of <strong>the</strong> year in <strong>the</strong> 2010 Nigerian<br />

Legal awards and was referred to as a firm “that is definitely going places” and one which has<br />

made “significant inroads” in <strong>the</strong> energy sector by Chambers Global.<br />

Ola Alokolaro<br />

Email: ola.alokolaro@advocaat-law.com<br />

Ola is a partner of ALP and heads <strong>the</strong> energy and<br />

natural resources group of <strong>the</strong> firm. He has extensive<br />

experience in advising on oil & gas, power and<br />

mining transactions as well <strong>the</strong> structuring of inward<br />

foreign investments. His clients include exploration<br />

and production companies in <strong>the</strong> oil & gas and<br />

mining sectors, independent power producers,<br />

finance institutions and service companies in various<br />

sectors of <strong>the</strong> Nigerian economy.<br />

He is a member of <strong>the</strong> Nigerian Bar Association, <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>International</strong> Bar Association and <strong>the</strong> association of<br />

<strong>International</strong> Petroleum Negotiators.

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