Amarachi Ikevude

Position: Senior Associate. Contact: Email: [email protected]; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarachi-ikevude-ba50b5a8/. Practice Groups: Capital Markets Corporate Banking. Amarachi Ikevude is a Senior Associate in the Firm. Her areas of practice cut across corporate, finance, private equity and probate legal advisory. She regularly advises on capital markets (debt and equity), structured and syndicated lending, project finance, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisition, private equity and venture capital transactions in various sectors. She has been recognized as a “Rising Star” (Capital Markets Debt and Equity) by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000) 2022 (32nd Edition) in its ranking for leading financial and corporate lawyers in Nigeria. Practice Groups Capital Markets Corporate Banking. Experience Some of Amarachi’s pertinent experience include: Advised on a Nigerian Company on its N50,000,000,000 Bond Issuance Programme; Advised on the Nigerian Company on its registration and USD5,700,000 investment in the Free Trade Zone; Advised the Senior Lender on its USD50,000,000 financing of an Independent Power Project; Advised the Lender on its syndicated EUR750,000,000 loan facility; Advised a Nigerian Bank on its establishment of ₦100,000,000,000 Commercial Paper Issuance Programme; Advised a Nigerian Company in connection with its ₦200,000,000,000 Bond Issuance Programme; Advised Nova Merchant Bank, as Transaction Counsel, on the issuance by its sponsored vehicle of N10 Billion Series 1 Bonds; Advising on the establishment of, and issue of commodities linked bonds and commercial papers programmes with sizes of N250 billion each; and Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Credit Suisse and African Export-Import Bank on a EUR1 billion term loan facility to the Bank of industry.