Chukwuyere Izuogu

Chukwuyere is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Commercial Group where he heads the Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT) Practice. Chukwuyere is a subject matter expert on substantive issues of competition law and TMT law. He assists clients by providing strategic legal advice and designing programmes to ensure compliance with their obligations under competition law and in the TMT industry.

 Some of the works undertaken by Chukwuyere at the Firm include:

• Advising an international social media network on an ongoing basis (2014 till date) on several aspects of Nigerian law
• Advised an oil and gas industry group on the anti-competitive effect or otherwise of a technical standard proposed to be adopted
• Advised a licensed satellite telecommunications services provider on the procedural requirements for and substantive assessment involved in notifying a merger to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the communications regulator
• Successfully filed a merger notification to, and obtained unconditional approval from the FCCPC in respect of the global acquisition of an EduTech company with a Nigerian subsidiary. The transaction implemented by an agreement and plan of merger is valued at US$450,000,000.00
• Successfully filed a merger notification to, and obtained unconditional approval from the FCCPC in respect of the acquisition by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC), a fully owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), of an indirect stake of approximately 35.43% in Olam Agri Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Olam Agri, together with its controlled affiliates, the Target Undertaking) from Olam Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Olam Holdings), a wholly owned subsidiary of Olam Group Limited (Olam Group)

MEMBERSHIPS

• Nigerian Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• International Association of Privacy Professionals
• British Computer Society

EDUCATION

• University of Hannover (LL.M)
• Strathclyde University (LL.M exchange programme)
• Nigerian Law School (B.L)
• University of Benin (LL. B)

 PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author on Merger Control Nigeria 2023 (Chambers and Partners 2023)
• Co-author on the Nigerian Jurisdiction in Getting the Deal Through – Telecoms and Media 2023 (Lexology 24 April 2023)
• ‘Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments for Online Profiling Under the NDPR 2019’ in Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan, Osatohanmwen Eruaga and Nkiruka Maduekwe (eds), Digital Economy Law and Policy (Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, November 2022)
• Co-author on the Nigerian Jurisdiction in Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Dominance 2022 (Lexology 22 January 2022)
• Clarifying the Data Protection Obligations of Cloud Customers in Nigeria, 6 September 2021
• Co-author on the Nigerian Jurisdiction in Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Dominance 2021 (Lexology 2021)
• FCCPC’s Investigation of Pay-Tv Providers and the burden of market definition in a dynamic tv broadcasting industry published in Businessday of September 10, 2020.
• Mitigating Privacy Risks of Cookie-Fried Web Surfers in Nigeria (13 June 2019)

• Regulating Anti-competitive Practices in Nigeria’s Communications Sector, (Wolf Legal Publishers, Netherlands, January 2017)