Desmond Ogba

Position: Partner. Contact: Phone: +234 (1) 4611290; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desmond-ogba-213a2824. Practice Areas: Banking & Finance, Energy & Natural Resources, Finance. Desmond is a Partner in our Finance & Projects practice Groups. He holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University, graduated with First Class Honours from the Nigerian Law School, and has a Bachelor of Laws from Ebonyi State University. Desmond has extensive experience advising project companies, sponsors, borrowers, banks, funds, multilateral finance institutions, export credit agencies, other financial institutions and corporates on diverse transactions including project finance, acquisitions and divestments, power projects and other infrastructure development, strategic investments, international capital markets issuances, corporate finance and alternative funding structures. Before joining Templars, he was a finance & projects associate at the Lagos-based firm of G. Elias & Co and a visiting associate at the London offices of Latham & Watkins, LLP under the International Lawyers for Africa secondment programme. He is ranked in a number of international legal directories including IFLR 1000 Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms and Chambers Global Guide to the Legal Profession with clients and other independent sources describing him as “…a good problem solver and very client oriented”; “very effective… strong and bright”; ”one who delivers excellent work”; and “has a keen eye for the commercial objectives of a transaction”. Desmond has served as a Senior Editor of the Harvard Business Law Review; as Vice-Chairman of the N