NIGERIA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Chiagozie Hilary-Nwokonko and Chukwuyere Ebere Izuogu Streamsowers & Köhn Streamsowers & Köhn is a full-service law firm in Nigeria, with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. Its team comprises six partners, in - cluding three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (equivalent to a King’s Counsel in the UK), as well as more than 20 associates. Since the en - actment of the Federal Competition and Con - sumer Protection Act (FCCPA) in 2018, the firm’s competition law practice has advised a broad range of clients across multiple sectors in all areas of competition law. Representative work includes advising an oil and gas industry group on the potential anti-competitive implica - tions of a proposed technical standard; guiding a satellite telecommunications services provider
on merger notification requirements before both the Federal Competition and Consumer Pro - tection Commission (FCCPC) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); and pro - viding strategic legal support to an international oil company in connection with an investigation initiated by the FCCPC. The firm also acted as Nigerian legal counsel to a global confectionery manufacturer in securing unconditional merg - er clearance from the FCCPC for its USD35.9 billion acquisition of a multinational food and snack company, one of the largest global trans - actions in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector on the African continent in 2024.
Authors
Chiagozie Hilary-Nwokonko is a senior partner at Streamsowers & Köhn and oversees the firm’s competition law, energy and
Chukwuyere Ebere Izuogu is a partner in Streamsowers & Köhn’s competition law practice and corporate commercial group, where he heads the telecoms, media and technology
natural resources, and legislative advocacy practice groups. He has dealt extensively with competition, oil and gas, mining, environmental, corporate, construction, taxation and general commercial law matters. Chiagozie was educated at the University of Dundee, the University of Cambridge and George Mason University, where he obtained an LLM in global antitrust law. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the section on energy and natural resources law of the International Bar Association, the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).
practice. He is the author of “Regulating Anti-competitive Practices in Nigeria’s Communications Sector”. Chukwuyere was educated at the University of Benin, the Nigeria Law School, and jointly at the University of Hannover, Germany and Strathclyde University, Scotland, where he obtained an LLM in information technology & intellectual property law (magna cum laude). He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
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