Prominent Nigerians including the chairman of Skye Bank, Dr Olatunde Ayeni, among others, have bagged the ESQ Nigerian Legal awards for the year 2015.
Ayeni won the category, “Distinguished lawyer in Business” at the conferment ceremony in Lagos. A law firm, Templars, on the other hand, emerged the best law firm in Nigeria. It also won three other awards, Capital Market Team of the year, Corporate Restructuring Team of the year and Project Finance Team of the year.
Other winners included Royal Heritage with two awards, Dispute Resolution and Labour Relations Team of the year; Banwo and Ighodalo in Energy; Aluko & Oyebode in Intellectual Property, Banking & Finance and Mergers & Acquisition; Sefon Fross in Oil & Gas; Jackson Etti & Edu in Private Equity; Sterling Partnership in Real Estate and G. Elias in Telecommunications.
For the Corporate Counsel category, Oando received award for the Oil & Gas sector; Axa Mansard won the Insurance sector; MTN won Telecommunications sector; Stanbic IBTC for Banking sector; Azura Power for Energy; FBN Capital for Investment; Ladol Integrated Logistic Freezone Enterprize for Maritime and Lafarge Africa for Manufacturing.
Expressing his delight, the principal partner, Templar, Mr. Oghgho Akpata, said the recognition made all the hard work worthy and it would encourage them to do more.
Speaking about the awards, the Chairman, Legal Blitz, Lere Fashola who is also the organiser of the annual award ceremony said the panel of judges who screened nomination of individuals and corporate bodies for the awards insisted in using merit and not influence.
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