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With excellent drafting skills, Ikem is pivotal in potraying accurately the best intentions of parties to any transactions. Ikem is also involved in several complex commercial litigation representations. Working a fine balance between matters and transaction, Ikem’s talent in providing ingenious solutions to tricky engagements is a special addition to SCP’s service delivery.

• Successful legal representation to about one million investors in a precedential case at the Investments and Securities Tribunal in an interest-devolution related dispute arising from the single largest capital market raising in Nigeria; 
• Advising the Lagos State Government on the development of a legal framework for the operation of  a savings fund and debt management office;
• Advising Lagos State Government on the single largest bond raising in the Nigerian capital market;
• Advising two significant private equity operations regarding investments and divestments in massive metropolitan real estate acquistions, development and managment.
• Provision of legal audit and due diligence services to the national regulator for new licencees in the current electricity sector reform.
• Successful defence of an IOC at the ECOWAS Court of Justice regarding national oil-bloc acquisition processes.
• Research coordination, preparation and case management regarding Federal and State-based litigation in significant nationwide tort litigation;
• Advised the Federal Government on the development of a national competition law framework, and participated in several pre-legislation capacity building programs for federal agencies such as the Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices,

Publications

• Global Competition Review, Getting the Deal Through Series: Merger Control in Nigeria; 2006-11
• Global Competition Review, Getting the Deal Through Series: Private Antitrust Litigation in Nigeria;2006-2011
• Global Competition Review, Getting the Deal Through Series: Dominance in Nigeria; 2006-11
• Getting the Deal Through Series: Electricity Regulation in Nigeria; 2006-2011
• Competition and Interventionism in the Nigerian Economy; 2006
• A new Paradigm for Intellectual Property Protection of Software under a Sui Generis Code; 2006