Practice Expertise
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate and Commercial
Areas of Practice
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate and Commercial
- Business Re-organisation and Insolvency
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Environment
- Infrastructure
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Taxation
- Telecommunications View More
WSG Practice Industries
- Corporate & Business
- Financial Services
- Government & Public Sector
- Real Estate & Construction
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
- Crossborder Trade & Investment
- Dispute Resolution
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Environmental View More
WSG Leadership
- WSG Board of Directors - Director 2006-2012
- Aviation Group - Member
- Banking & Finance Group - Member
- Dispute Resolution Group - Member
- Energy Group - Member
- Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member
- WSG Coronavirus Task Force Group - Member View More
Profile
Has been involved in project finance and capital markets transactions for several years. Presently Chairman Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Stock Exchang Investors Protection Fund, former Chairman-Capital Markets Solicitors Association and Chairman of its Strategy and Remuneration Committee. Member of the Federal Ministry of Finance Committee on Code of Corporate Ethics for Capital Market Regulators, Member Securities and Exchange Committee on Review of Capital Market Processes and Structures, Former member of the Presidential Policy Advisory Committee where he was a member of the sub committee on finance and investment. He authored the committee's policy paper on foreign investment and privatization. He advises clients from around the world on foreign direct investment in Nigeria and on related tax issues.
He heads the firms Banking and Finance and Transportaion practices.
Bar Admissions
Legal Practitioner, Nigeria, 1984; Solicitor, England and Wales, 2001; Barrister and Solicitor, Ghana, 2001. Notary Public of the Supreme Court, Nigeria.
Education
BA (Econs. And Pol.Sci.) Yale College, USA; BA (Law) Churchill College, Cambridge University, England; MA (Law) Cambridge University; BL Nigerian Law School Lagos; Ghana Law School, Accra, Ghana. MCIArb (UK); FCIT; MNIM
Obtained advanced certification in Project Finance from the CLDP and Eximbank (USA), in venture capital from the Venture Capital Institute – USA and in entrepreneurial development from the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations.
Mr Anga is a trained arbitrator and has received advanced training in ADR from California State University, Sacramento, the AAA and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK.
Areas of Practice
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate and Commercial
- Business Re-organisation and Insolvency
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Environment
- Infrastructure
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
Professional Career
Mr Anga represents major state owned and private oil and gas production, marketing and distribution companies in a range of matters. He acted in the first marginal field acquisition in Nigeria and advised on acquisition of first EPP at Egbin.
Acts as Nigerian counsel to five International flag carriers and several other entities involved in aviation. Involved as local counsel to overseas financiers during the purchase of aircraft operated in Nigeria and Ghana. Represented international airlines on tariff, regulatory, shareholder and fiscal issues with Ground handling company. Acted for a major aircraft manufacturer and their underwriters in matters relating to an aircraft crash. . He was an honorary delegate for Nigeria at the 5th ICAO World Air Transport Conference held in Montreal, Canada in March 2003, and the 35th General Assembly of ICAO, Montreal October 2004. Appointed to UNCITRAL Committee of Experts on Commercial Fraud.
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- International Bar Association
- International Trademark Association
- Law Society England & Wales; Chartered Institute o
- Chartered Institute of Taxation
He is an active member of the Section of Energy and Resources Law of the International Bar Association, the Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law of the American Bar Association, the UK Energy Lawyers Group, and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Energy Law of the Center for American and International Law, U. S. A. Member of the Forum on Air and Space Law of the American Bar Association, the Aeronautical Committee in the SBL of the International Bar Association; Founder and President Nigerian Aviation Law Society. Member, Disciplinary (2000) and Finance (2001) sub-committees of the Nigerian Bar Association. Honorary Secretary of the Yale Club of Nigeria. Secretary (1977-1999) and President, Oxford and Cambridge Club of Nigeria. Former Member, Board of Directors, World Services Group. Chapter Co-Chair Nigeria, of International Law Section of New York State Bar Association.
Seminars/ Presentation
Has attended and facilitated several courses and seminars around the world on Finance, Oil and Gas and aviation topics. .
Professional Activities and Experience
Consultant: LNG Consultants, Lagos, Nigeria.
Articles
Establishment, Management and Structure of Partnership (with Reference to Law Firms)
By Lawrence Anga, AELEX |February 2023COVID-19 Legal Issues Newsletter
By Lawrence Anga, Ogidi Tolulope |April 2020
Aircraft Repossessions and Enforcement, ed. Ravi Nath and Berend Crans, Kluwer Law International
The Mergers and Aquisition Review, ed. Simon Robinson, Law Business Research
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