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Folake Alabi

Olaniwun Ajayi

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Position: Partner, Finance & Capital Market
Rating:
  • Rising star partner
Bar Admissions:
Nigeria
Practice Areas:
Capital markets
Jurisdictions:
Biography

Folake is a Partner in the firm. She has substantial experience in project finance, capital markets, corporate finance, and acquisitions of power assets. Folake has extensive experience in advising development finance institutions, an experience which earned her a fellowship at the International Finance Corporation, Washington DC, where she gained first- hand experience on development financing.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on a USD$50million financing to Nigerian Commercial Bank as part of its Covid-19 relief financing.
  • Advised BUA Cement Plc. on its NGN 115 billion under a NGN 200 billion bond issuance programme, (the current largest corporate bond issuance in Nigeria).
  • Advised Airtel Africa Plc on the first cross-border issuance in Nigeria and its secondary listing on the Official Trading List of The Nigerian Stock Exchange.
  • Advised Seplat Petroleum Development Company on its US$350Million Eurobond Issuance.
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • M&A
  • Project finance
  • Trade finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Mining
  • Social infrastructure
Association memberships
  • Nigerian Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • LL.M, New York University, New York
  • B.L, Nigerian Law School
  • LL. B, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Address:
Lagos
Nigeria
Tel:+234 1 2702551 | 08180022551 | Ext: 2602 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.olaniwunajayi.net