Financial Services

The Financial Services industry incorporates a wide range of businesses including banks, investment firms, insurance companies and mortgage institutions. This industry may be regarded as the most crucial to every economy as a result of the financial intermediation role of the various businesses that play in this space. As a pivotal industry of every economy, the Financial Services is also particularly loaded with legal risk and are most frequently a target for litigation; thus, making it an extremely regulated industry.

W&P has mastery of the various legislations and regulatory circulars that relate to the various businesses that make up the sector and we have fostered a seamless working relationship with the various regulator agencies. The Firm sits comfortably in dealing with all legal issues around this industry.

Team

Uche Wigwe

Managing Partner

Tilewa Oyefeso

Partner

Afam Okeke

Partner

Oluwatobi Adeyemo

Senior Associate

Chioma Amadi-Agoro

Senior Associate

Opeyemi Adebanjo

Senior Associate

Augustine Agushaka

Associate

Ifeoluwa Akinteye

Associate

Ikechukwu Obialor

Associate

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UCHE WIGWE

Managing Partner

Uche has a masters degree [LL.M.] in Petroleum Law and Policy from the University of Dundee, Scotland, a bachelors of law degree [LL.B.] from the University of Ibadan, and a bachelors of science [BS.C] in Banking and Finance from the University of Port Harcourt.

He wields strong expertise in advising on various practice areas including Construction and Infrastructure, Energy and Natural Resources, Corporate Finance and Project Finance. He has also developed a strong practice in Corporate Insolvency and Debt Recovery.

Uche is a qualified member of the Nigerian Bar and he is the current 1st Vice Chairman of the Construction Projects & Infrastructure Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) . He is also a member of the International Bar Association [IBA] and the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN)