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Position: Chairman
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
  • Women Leaders
Bar Admissions:
Nigeria
Practice Areas:
Banking
Capital markets
M&A
Energy and infrastructure
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Energy
Oil and gas
Mining
Natural resources
Languages:
English
Yoruba
Biography

Olubunmi Fayokun is a senior partner at Aluko & Oyebode and heads the firm's capital markets and M&A practices. She has advised on a variety of high-profile transactions and represents top-tier indigenous, international, and multinational clients in various sectors including the banking, insurance, aviation, healthcare and telecommunications sectors.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised on the demutualisation of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (now Nigerian Exchange Group) and the subsequent listing of NGX Group on Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX)
  • Advised Access Bank Plc on the issuance of US$500 million Basel III compliant Additional Tier 1 Eurobond notes, admitted to trading on the International Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange (the first to be issued by a Nigerian bank)
  • Advised on Africa Finance Corporation’s US$700 million Eurobond issuance and CHF150 million inaugural Green Bond issuance
  • Advised Access Bank Plc on the issuance of a US$50 million Senior Unsecured Step-Up Puttable Green Bond, listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange
  • Advised Pan African Towers Limited on the establishment of a ₦50 billion (appox. US$116 million) Bond Issuance Programme
Practice areas
  • Capital markets: Debt/Equity
  • Financial Services Regulatory
  • M&A/Competition
  • Project Development
  • Securitisation
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Oil and gas
  • Tech and telecoms
Association memberships
  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Association of International Energy Negotiators
Academic qualifications
  • LLB, University of Ife (1984)
  • Bar Certificate, Nigerian Law School (1985)
Address:
Lagos
Tel:+234 1 462 8360 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.aluko-oyebode.com