Folake Elias-Adebowale

Folake Elias Adebowale is a corporate/M&A partner, and co-heads the private equity and oil and gas teams at UUBO. She specialises in cross-border and domestic investments, joint ventures, restructuring and compliance across diverse sectors.

She serves on the legal committees of the GPCA, AVCA and Private Equity and Venture Capital Association of Nigeria, where she is also a founding board member. She is recognised in the IFLR1000 Women Leader 2022 elite ranking and commended by The Lawyer's Africa Elite Private Equity special report.

She is ranked for her practice specialisations by The IFLR1000, Chambers Global, Chambers Global (Fintech), The Legal500, Who’s Who Legal (Global M&A & Governance) and Who’s Who Legal (Nigeria) and is named as one of 20 outstanding Nigerian women in business law by BusinessDay.