
Matthew Philip Awolu
Senior Associate | ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
Physical Address:
ALN House, Eldama Ravine Close, Off Eldama Ravine Road, Westlands, Nairobi
Telephone:
+254 20 364 0000, +254 703 032 000Email Address:
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Background
Matthew Philip-Awolu is a Senior Associate at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna and a member of the Projects and Infrastructure department. He focuses on legal advice in energy, infrastructure, public private partnerships, project development and finance within Sub-Saharan Africa.
His experience includes providing transaction advisory services to project sponsors who develop both small scale and large-scale infrastructure and energy projects, providing corporate structuring advisory in respect of the projects, legal due diligence on infrastructure projects and drafting and negotiating a host of agreements in respect of such infrastructure, energy, and real estate projects.
Prior to joining ALN, he worked as a key member in the project and infrastructure department of top tier law firms in West Africa and worked as an in-house legal counsel for an energy company.
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Professional Membership
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
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Professional Qualifications
2017 LL.M, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2014 Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
2013 LL.B, Bachelor of Laws, Babcock University, Nigeria
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Career Summary
2023 – Date Senior Associate, Anjarwalla & Khanna, Nairobi
2023: Associate, Templars, Nigeria
2021 – 2023: Associate, Detail Commercial Solicitors, Lagos
2017 – 2021: Legal Counsel, Greenville Liquified Natural Gas Company Nigeria, Abuja
2014 – 2015: Trainee Lawyer, Morgan Cole Partners
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Top Matters
Projects & Infrastructure
- Advising a consultancy firm in connection with a regional fibre optic and infrastructure sharing project amongst Eastern and Southern African countries.
- Advising a foreign investor in connection with the development of distillery project and a power plant in Tanzania.
- Advising a foreign investor in connection with a geothermal project in Kenya.
Prior to joining ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna, Matthew advised on the following matters:
- Advising a UK based investor in connection with the development of Nigeria’s first integrated sea-weed nursery and bio-refinery project.
- Advising a Nigerian investor in connection with the development and rehabilittion of an approximately 500 kilometre liquid pipeline infrastructure under a concession arrangement to be granted by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
- Advising a leading solar energy infrastructure developer in connection with the development of a 961 MWp solar project and 443 MWh of utility-scale battery energy storage systems across Nigeria in partnership with Federal Government of Nigeria.
- Advising a leading solar energy infrastructure developer in connection with the development of mini-grid and battery-as-a-service project in West Africa.
- Advising a foreign investor in connection with the proposed development of an independent power project comprising of a natural gas fired generation plant of up to 24 megawatts, a solar photovoltaic system and an underground independent distribution network in West Africa.
- Advising a Zambian renewable energy company in connection with the co-development of a 40 megawatt grid-connected solar power plant to be implemented in Zambia under the GET-FIT Program.
- Advising an investor in connection with the offshore acquisition of a majority stake in a leading Belgian agro-industrial group.
- Advising Skipper T&D DMCC in connection with the development and financing of grid-connected 20 x 100 MWpv solar power projects in West Africa.
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