| ‘The banking and finance team in Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie is easily the most commercially astute team that I have ever worked with in Nigeria. The team understand the market, the pitfalls to avoid and work with an eye to details when advising on transactions. The partners are a phone call away and very accessible, and its billing is reasonable and commercially affordable. The quality control in the practice is noteworthy, and relationship-building and networking practices endear me to the firm.’ |

WHEN IS A RIG NOT A VESSEL?
When is a drilling rig not a vessel under Nigeria’s Cabotage Act? For over a decade, stakeholders in Nigeria’s offshore petroleum sector have grappled with


