Ayotunde Owoigbe

Ayotunde Owoigbe is a partner with Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading multidisciplinary Nigerian law firm which provides first-class legal advisory services on corporate and commercial Nigerian law.

Her core areas of practice are banking, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions and project finance.

• Advised the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria in connection with the sale of its 100% shareholding in Keystone Bank Limited; the last of the erstwhile bridge banks following the 2010 banking recapitalisation exercise in the Nigerian banking industry;
• Advised Helios Investment Partners, a leading private equity firm, in connection with its acquisition of 49% of Oando Plc’s interest in Oando Gas and Power Limited;
• Advised Africa Plus Partners in relation to its establishment of a N30 billion infrastructure fund; one of the very few infrastructure funds registered by the Nigerian Securities & Exchange Commission;
• Advised Deutsche Bank (Singapore Branch) in connection with an invoice finance facility advanced to Airtel Networks Limited for the purpose of financing working capital requirements;
• Advised First City Monument Bank Limited in connection with the establishment of a N100,000,000,000 Bonds Issuance Programme through its wholly owned special purpose vehicle, FCMB Financing SPV Plc; under which programme the bank has issued three tranches of bonds.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• M&A
• Private equity

• Banking
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Insurance
• Tech and telecoms

• Nigerian Bar Association

• Member, Nigerian Bar Association;
• Chairman of the Capital Market Solicitors Association;
• Firm’s representative in connection with its membership of the Loan Market Association;
• Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Capital Market Solicitors Association; and
• 2007 Associate of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (a leadership development not-for-profit, affiliated with the Aspen Institute).    

• LL.B (Hons) University of Lagos, 2000
• BL., Nigerian Law School, 2001