By Bartholomew Madukwe

STERLING Partnership, one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firm in Lagos, has organised an end of year networking reception and interaction for its clients and friends.
The event was jointly hosted by the acting British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Mike Purves at the British residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The main thrust of the event which commenced at 6.30 p.m., was appreciation to Sterling Partnership’s clients and friends of the firm for their business and support through 2014.
The private sector, government, diplomats and members of their diplomatic missions attended the event.

Foreign investors

There were leading executives in the banking, oil and gas, energy, automotive, manufacturing, hospitality, tourism, entertainment and other sectors of the Nigerian economy in attendance.

Also present were Governor Rotimi Amechi of Rivers State and a representative of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State as well as significant number of current and intending foreign investors into the Nigerian economy.

Some highlights of the event were a brief congratulatory message from the Managing Partner, Sterling Partnership, Mr. Israel Aye, to the firm’s founding partner Ms. Boma Ozobia, on the recent conferment of the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON, on her and an invitation from Sterling Partnership to Eagle Hills, UAE (an affiliate company of EMAAR and developer for Nigeria’s first smart city project) to make a presentation on the Abuja Centenary City.

Jaimal Shergill and William Oburu introduced the Centenary City project to the party as the first of its kind and size in Nigeria and presented some of the key features of the city to include the Africa Tower, which would be the tallest building on the continent, a financial centre which would be the city’s and Nigeria’s new business hub, the Abuja Museum of African Art, the Africa village, the Nigeria mall and Nigeria heritage park, an 18-hole gulf course, a combination of luxury villas and apartment buildings to be developed by the Address Hotels and Resorts and an amusement park, among other amenities to be built within the city. Official launch and sales for the first phase of the development would be on December 2, 2014.

Sterling Partnership is one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firms with specialties in energy, real estate and infrastructure, finance and capital markets, technology and communications, transportation, public private partnerships, public law, intellectual property and entertainment. Sterling Partnership is solicitor the Centenary City project.