Ozofu 'Latunde Ogiemudia
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Ozofu 'Latunde Ogiemudia is a partner in Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie’s corporate advisory, private equity, and mergers & acquisitions, employment and pro bono teams.
She is recognised as an extremely resourceful and versatile adviser and has advised on various areas of the law including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, corporate restructuring and regulatory compliance, labour and employment and company secretarial practice. She co-heads the firm’s pro bono practice, which, along with law firms from several other jurisdictions, was awarded the 2018 TrustLaw Collaboration Award by the Thomson Reuters Foundation for their work on the 28 Too Many report on female genital mutilation, as well as the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation Award for Africa in 2020.
Ozofu was the secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association-Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) from 2020 – 2022 and is a member of its governing council. She was the chairperson of the Technical Advisory Committee to the 8th Nigerian Senate on the drafting of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020. She is the Thematic Lead of the National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) Regulatory working group that was set up to assist the National Assembly in identifying and improving bills that relate to any aspect of the regulatory environment.
She has been recognised annually since 2018 by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) as one of the IFLR1000 Women Leaders. She has been rated as a ‘highly-regarded lawyer’ for her Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity practice by The IFLR1000 annually since 2019 and is recommended as a “National Leader” in Nigeria for her Mergers & Acquisitions and Governance practice by Who’s Who Legal (Nigeria) (2019 and 2021). She has also been recognised as a key lawyer by Legal 500 EMEA.