Lawrence Fubara Anga

Lawrence Fubara Anga

Founding Partner

ǼLEX

Fubara is a founding partner at ǼLEX, a full-service law firm with offices in Nigeria and Ghana. He heads the Financial Services and Transportation Practice Groups. He is qualified to practice law in Nigeria, Ghana, England and Wales. He appears as counsel before all superior courts of record in Nigeria and Ghana.
He has a multi-disciplinary background in Law, Economics, Management and Fiscal Policy. He is a chartered tax practitioner (FCTI) and a chartered arbitrator (MCIArb). Fubara advises clients from around the world on foreign direct investment into Nigeria. He is engaged in transactional work in the energy and transportation industries, particularly advising on financing, as well as regulatory and fiscal issues affecting projects. He represents several international airlines and other aviation entities, and advises them on a broad scope of issues including aviation regulatory compliance and financing of assets.

He was invited as a member of the presidential policy advisory committee where he was a member of the subcommittee on finance and investment. He authored the committee’s policy paper on foreign investment and privatization. He was a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan Committee.

Fubara was invited by the World Bank as an expert to a joint workshop in Montreal with ATAG and ICAO on ‘Maximising Civil Aviation’s Economic Impact’. He was chairman, legal and regulatory subcommittee, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Aviation National Steering Committee on Safety, Quality Assurance and Reforms. He advised the industry and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act, 2006. Mr. Anga was appointed by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority as a member of a legal review committee for the revision of the draft Nigerian Civil Aviation Economic Regulations and is also a member of the Appeal Panel on Safety Violations, set up under the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations.

Fubara served as pioneer chairman SBL subcommittee of Aviation and a member of the SBL Council. He was a member of the Disciplinary and Finance Committees of the NBA. He is currently country co-chairman of the International Law Section of the New York Bar Association. He is the country representative of Trace International.

He is the Chairman of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Investors Protection Fund and he sits on the boards of several companies.

He was educated at Kings College, Lagos, Yale University, Cambridge University

He is a Knight of St. Mulumba and the Olu Isokun of the Oyo Empire.

About ǼLEX:

ǼLEX is a full service commercial and litigation law firm. It is one of the largest law firms in West Africa with offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja in Nigeria and Accra, Ghana.

We merge local legal expertise and presence, political and industry wide connections with an appreciation of global standards and demands.

More at: http://www.aelex.com/