Mavis Abada

Mavis has primary focus in Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate Restructuring, and Competition. She also participates in some of the Firm’s Banking & Finance transactions. Mavis’ transactions include foreign led, intra-African, and core Nigerian transactions that cut across several industries, including: financial and business services, FMCG, tech and telecoms, education, logistics etc., and her clients include foreign, local, Private Equity and strategic.

• Advised Viasat, Inc., in connection with the US$222 million all stock acquisition of Rignet Inc.
• Advised First Carlyle Growth V in connection with its US$40 million indirect 60% equity investment in a leading full-service travel company (Wakanow.com Limited) and its related/affiliated companies.
• Advised INTL FCStone Ltd (now StoneX Group) in connection with the acquisition of the investment banking and brokerage businesses of Exotix Holdings Limited.
• Advised FCMB Pensions Limited (a member of the FCMB Group, a leading business and financial services group in Nigeria) in connection with the over NGN11 billion strategic acquisition of AIICO Pension Managers Limited, and subsequent merger of both corporations.
• Advised Hewlett-Packard International with regards to its businesses and assets into two distinct companies in several jurisdictions including Nigeria; and advised Hewlett-Packard Enterprise in connection with sale of its assets in Nigeria to the Midis Group of Companies as part of its divestment in six countries, including Nigeria.
• Oakwood Green Capital Limited and SIFAX Nigeria Limited in connection with the acquisition of commercial banks in some West African countries (including, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone).

• Competition
• Financial services regulatory
• M&A
• Private equity
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Consumer goods and services
• Financial services
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Tech and telecoms

• Nigeria
• State of New York

• Nigerian Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association

• Master of Laws (LL.M), Harvard Law School, 2016
• Qualifying Certificate (B.L) Nigeria Law School, 2013
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), University of Benin, 2012