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Ejemen Ofoman

Managing Associate

New York

Ejemen Ofoman is a managing associate in the firm's New York office and a member of the firm's Energy & Infrastructure practice group. Ejemen focuses on advising clients on the financing and development of infrastructure projects.

Ejemen advises sponsors, investors, contractors, and lenders (including development finance institutions, MFIs, ECAs and private equity funds) on structuring, development, sale, acquisition, financing and construction of energy (including renewables) and infrastructure projects. Leveraging experience she has gained advising on a diverse range of projects, Ejemen employs a solutions-driven, commercially focused approach in providing legal advice to clients, and in helping them navigate legal challenges associated with their projects, from inception to completion and every stage in between.

Prior to joining Orrick, Ejemen spent close to a decade advising on the development and financing of several first-of-its-kind infrastructure projects in Nigeria - including privately financed IPPs, tertiary healthcare facilities, and critical road infrastructure. In many cases, midwifing projects from inception through development, construction, commercial operations, and beyond.

Driven by a strong belief in the transformational impact infrastructure can have on the growth and development of communities, Ejemen is keen to provide pro bono support to financiers and developers of infrastructure projects meant to serve disadvantaged and underserved communities.

 

  • Ejemen was a 2018/19 Power Africa/Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Fellow, a former foreign law clerk to now retired Justice Sisi Virginia Khampepe of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and has been ranked twice by IFLR1000 as a ‘Rising Star’ (Leading Lawyers) for Project Development (Nigeria).

    • One of the largest independent solar developers in the United States on a proposed US$60 million debt financing.
    • Power project developer on a US$300 million portfolio financing for five (5) solar photovoltaic electric generating facilities with a total estimated capacity of 1,190 MW, in development.
    • U.S affiliates of two Mexican companies in relation to the financing of two solar-powered electric generation facilities each with a nameplate capacity of approximately 187.5 MW in Mexico.
    • One of the largest developers of clean energy on the tax equity financing and the construction loan financing of a wind power project with a nameplate capacity of approximately 226 MW in Texas.
    • Major solar energy developer in connection with the grant of loan facilities for the acquisition and development of a pipeline of renewable energy projects and the procurement of equipment.
    • A leading renewable energy company on the construction and tax equity financing of an approximately 104 MW wind power project in South Dakota.
    • A leading renewable energy company on the construction financing for the repowering of an approximately 272 MW wind power project in Texas.
    • A global nonprofit investment firm on a US$2 million financing for the installation of 1.29 MW of solar systems on eight affordable housing projects in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
    • A renewable energy company on the tax equity financing of an approximately 250 MW wind power project in Texas.