Chukwuyere Izuogu

Chukwuyere Izuogu is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Commercial Group, where he heads the Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT) Practice, focusing on Competition Law. He is a subject matter expert on substantive issues of competition law and TMT law.

He assists clients by providing strategic legal advice and designing programmes to ensure compliance with their obligations under competition law and in the TMT industry.

His representative work includes advising an international social media network on an ongoing basis since 2014 on several aspects of Nigerian law; advising an oil and gas industry group on the anti-competitive effect or otherwise of a technical standard proposed to be adopted; advising a licensed satellite telecommunications services provider on the procedural requirements for and substantive assessment involved in notifying a merger to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); successfully filing a merger notification to, and obtaining unconditional approval from, the FCCPC in respect of the global acquisition of an EduTech company with a Nigerian subsidiary, valued at US$450,000,000; and successfully filing a merger notification to, and obtaining unconditional approval from, the FCCPC in respect of the acquisition by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) of an indirect stake of approximately 35.43% in Olam Agri Holdings Pte. Ltd.

He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the British Computer Society.

His publications include co-authorship of Merger Control Nigeria 2023 (Chambers and Partners, 2023), co-authorship of the Nigerian jurisdiction in Getting the Deal Through – Telecoms and Media 2023 (Lexology, 2023), “Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments for Online Profiling Under the NDPR 2019” in Digital Economy Law and Policy (Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2022), co-authorship of the Nigerian jurisdiction in Getting the Deal Through – Dominance 2021 and 2022, and Regulating Anti-competitive Practices in Nigeria’s Communications Sector (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017).

He holds an LL.M from the University of Hannover, participated in an LL.M exchange programme at Strathclyde University, and holds a B.L from the Nigerian Law School and an LL.B from the University of Benin.