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Ayotunde Owoigbe

Banwo & Ighodalo

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
  • Women Leaders
Bar Admissions:
Nigeria
Practice Areas:
Banking and finance
Capital markets
Private equity
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Yoruba
Biography

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.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC’s Offer for Subscription of 9 billion Ordinary Shares of 50 kobo each at N44.50 per share;

  • Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc’s issuance of up to N46,000,000,000 (Forty-Six Billion Naira) Series 2 Bonds under the existing N200,000,000,000 (Two Hundred Billion Naira) Bond Issuance Programme

  • Equity capital raise of $8,500,000 (“Series Seed Fundraise”) by Appzone Mauritius Limited

  • FBN Holdings Plc’s capital raise of N150,000,000,000 by way of Rights Issue through the allotment of 5,982,548,799 Ordinary shares of 50 kobo each;

  • Zenith Bank PLC’s capital raise of up to N300 billion Naira through a rights issue of up to 5,232,748,964 ordinary shares of 50kobo each at N36.00 per share and offer for subscription of up to 2,767,251,036 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N36.50 per share;

  • Nigerian Breweries Plc. in connection with its acquisition of Distell International Holdings 80% shareholding in Distell Wines and Spirits Nigeria Limited as well as 100% acquisition of the import business of Heineken Beverages Holdings Limited;

  • PAT Holding Limited in connection with the acquisition of a 100% shareholding in Pan African Towers Limited;

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

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

Bar admissions
  • Nigerian Bar Association
Association memberships
  • 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).    
Academic qualifications
  • LL.B (Hons) University of Lagos, 2000
  • BL., Nigerian Law School, 2001
Address:
Lagos
Tel:+234 1 4615 203-4; +234 1 4630 853-4 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.banwo-ighodalo.com/people/our-partners/ayotunde-owoigbe