business development manager

seeking to gain international experience in the management of specified projects in the oil and gas industry.

Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike is a female legal practitioner presently working within the Energy & Project Finance Group of Adepetun, Caxton - Martins, Agbor & Segun - a Lagos based corporate commercial Law Firm. She is specialized in providing legal advisory and support services to multinational oil and gas companies in Nigeria

A legal/ regulatory specialist with over 5 years of experience in extensive research and practice in the energy and project finance, corporate commercial and environmental law sectors; involved providing expert legal compliance and advice and company secretarial services to international exploration, oil service and multinational trading companies. Donna has conducted several due diligence exercises in relation to the acquisition of interests in oil block concessions; provided expert legal opinions and advice on transactional matters; advised on exportation options and processes obtainable in Nigeria to major international oil and gas companies seeking to enter into gas exportation business in Nigeria.

2002- Nigerian Law School (B.L. Honours) ; 2000 - University of Ilorin (LL.B Honours); 1993- Atlantic Hall Co-Educational Secondary School (S.S.C.E); 5 years work experience in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

Donna was actively involved in client representations in the 2004 bid round of the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria Democratic Republic of Sao Tome & Principe; added to this, she was a member of the firms’ research team whose extensive work in the Year 2005 Licensing Round led to major clarifications by the government in the bid process. She has been presented with a couple of awrds in her present place of employment which cuts across both the social and legal work environments.

Donna has a boisterous personality and possesses very good oratory skills, is self-confident and is pro-active in her approach towards every aspect of life. She has keen interests in providing strategy, planning and development solutions to project specific ventures and has a love for music, travel, adventure, poetry, dance and drama. Donna is an ardent reader of fictional and inspirational literary works.