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Solape Peters is a Partner and co-heads the Finance & Projects practice, where she is focused on the telecoms and infrastructure sector. Her expertise ranges from providing regulatory, commercial, and transactional expertise to government bodies and private sector entities. With a career spanning over 24 years, with both in-company and external legal counsel experience, Solape’s clients describe her as “client centric” and this testimonial has been recognised by Legal 500 EMEA 2021. In addition, she was recognised as a Leading Individual by the Legal 500 EMEA 2023 and 2024 in Construction and Real Estate. She has also been recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in Business Law in Nigeria by Esq Legal Practice magazine. She has over a decade of in-company experience working with Celtel Nigeria, (now ‘Airtel Nigeria’) and Etisalat Nigeria (now ‘9mobile’) in various specialist and management roles. Solape leads various transactions within the transportation and infrastructure sector, which includes Public Private Partnership (‘PPP’) projects, including rail. She routinely provides legal advisory services in construction-related matters including drafting, negotiating and advising on complex construction and engineering contracts, development and funding and construction-related dispute mediation. Solape is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (‘ICSAN’).