Sterling Partnership host clients and partners in Lagos

Nigeria’s Sterling Partnership, last week held a year-end networking reception at the British residence in Ikoyi, Lagos. This was part of the firm’s objective to create value by building relationships with its partners and clients.

The cocktail event organised in partnership with the Acting British Deputy High Commissioner, Mike Purves, was attended by clients and friends of the firm, amongst whom were Governor Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers State, representatives of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN as well as key actors in various sectors of the economy.

Highlights of the evening include, a brief congratulatory message from the Managing Partner, Sterling Partnership, Mr. Israel Aye, to Boma Ozobia the firm’s founding partner, the firm’s founding partner who was recently conferred with the national honour, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) and an invitation from Sterling Partnership to Eagle Hills, UAE (an affiliate company of EMAAR and developer for Nigeria’s first smart city project)  to make a presentation on the Abuja Centenary City.

Jaimal Shergill and William Oburu introduced the Centenary City project to the party as the first of its kind and size in Nigeria and presented some of the key features of the city to include the Africa Tower, which would be the tallest building on the continent, a financial centre which would be the city’s and Nigeria’s new business hub, the Abuja Museum of African Art, the Africa village, the Nigeria mall and Nigeria heritage park, an 18-hole gulf course, a combination of luxury villas and apartment buildings to be developed by the Address Hotels and Resorts and an amusement park, among other amenities to be built within the city. Official launch and sales for the first phase of the development would be on December 2, 2014.

Sterling Partnership is solicitor to the Centenary City project and one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firms with specialties in energy, real estate and infrastructure, finance and capital markets.

Other area of specialisation include, technology and communications, transportation, public private partnerships, public law, intellectual property and entertainment.