Kunle represents clients in commodity and derivative transactions, with a focus on energy transactions. His experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, oil and gas and complex real estate transactions.
Kunle’s recent experience includes working on energy supply agreements, energy management agreements, supply and offtake agreements, commodity monetization/intermediation structures involving hydrocarbons and refineries. He also regularly assists clients with their trade finance and hedging obligations and routinely works on ISDA Master Agreements and EEI Master Agreements in the power, gas and renewable energy sector.
He has also been on secondment with a leading capital market company where he provided day to day transaction support on various physical and financial energy commodity trading transactions. Kunle’s work included advising the client on Master Services Agreements, Supply Agreements, Transport Agreements, Charter Agreements and Charter Brokerage Agreements, Terminal Services Agreements, Agreements for the purchase and sale of crude oil and condensate and general day-to-day transaction advisory.
In addition, Kunle works with a number of energy regulatory partners in our DC office and assists their clients with requests for information from FERC, self-reporting and provides general legal advice to energy companies. In recent times, he has been an integral part of a team that successfully put forward a FERC Self-Report on electric power metering that led to no further action from FERC. He also regularly liaises with ERCOT on behalf of our clients in the retail electricity space.
He has assisted on a host of refinery related items, including supply and offtake arrangements, marketing and consulting agreements and hedging arrangements. In the energy space, Kunle has also worked on a number of structured wholesale and retail power and gas transactions, including transportation agreements, exchange agreements and storage agreements.
Apart from his transaction capabilities, he is an active member of the International Energy Credit Association and regularly writes articles and updates to the firm’s clients on key matters affecting the energy sector such as the Winter Storm Uri crisis and how it affected uplift charges as well as the court’s interpretation of force majeure stemming from Uri. He is also a member of the firm’s Retail & Consumer Goods group, with a primary focus on advising consumer goods brands.
