About
Most lawyers know one legal system. I’ve spent over 25 years working across two — and that gap is exactly where my clients make or lose money.I’m a Nigerian and UK-trained lawyer, Partner at Blackstone Legal Advisory, with offices in Lagos, Abuja and London. My practice sits at the intersection of corporate finance, real estate, and succession planning — for clients who have interests, assets, or ambitions that cross borders.My background is unusual for a Nigerian lawyer. I read Law at Coventry, completed an LLM in International Commercial Law at the University of Westminster, trained at the College of Law London, and interned at Reed Smith LLP in the City. I then trained in Nigeria at Olaniwun Ajayi and Babalakin & Co before being called to the Nigerian Bar. I further deepened my financial law expertise through the Euromoney International Financial Law programme at Cambridge University — covering securitisation, derivatives, capital markets, and cross-border lending.Before returni…
Experience
Managing Partner
Blackstone Legal Advisory Services
Present
Specialises in Corporate finance, Real Estate, legal business strategy, Copyright & Trademarks and Introducing new companies to the market. A solutions provider and deal maker. An entrepreneur with interests in Property Development, technology and energy.
Founder
The Hanging Basket (formerly Banana Island Cafe) · Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos
Owner and founder of the Banana Island Cafe, now called The Hanging basket. A unique cafe located in Banana Island, an enclave in Ikoyi, Lagos. Restrategized, Conceptualised and implemented a new fine dining experience. The Hanging Basket) is an upscale cafe offering the finest pastries, sandwiches, drinks and grills in a serene waterfront environment.
Legal Practitioner
Legal Practitioner at foremost nigerian commercial law firm. Worked within the litigation team where i managed my own caseload. Also active in the business development and intelligence teams. Key member of the project finance team working on ongoing concessions.
Lawyer
Blackstone Property and Development
Fully qualified Nigerian Barrister at law, currently running a Property company with a sales and lettings base covering Ikoyi and Victoria Island in lagos.
Lawyer in Training
Retrained in Nigerian law school to qualify as a lawyer, after a 9 year break in IT in the UK. Current business interests are property sales and rentals as well as real estate investments.
Test Lead
Test Lead for Enterprise Data Warehouse migration dealing with all testing activities for the migration of the Teradata and Ab Initio ETL servers. Responsible for testing deliverables including test approach, strategy, plan and UAT documentation. Managing project plans and resourcing for a team of 5 testers and reporting to the project board. Management of risks, issues and defects for testing.
Lead Test Analyst
Project merging 50 legacy systems into 5 systems, Lead Test Analyst for the Wt Act Project which was an implementation of a licensing solution across Siebel, SAP and SMS applications. Responsibility for test management of WT Act, managing a team of three test analysts and reported directly to the Testing and Cutover Manager and Programme Director
Test Lead
HP- Vodafone
Application Infrastructure testing role working on a major migration project for Vodafone. Project involved a team of 150 across Europe. Full project involvement from migration specification to cut over of various applications including finance based systems, signal mapping systems, database management systems and web-based systems.
Education
Nigerian Law School
Bachelor of Law (BL), Legal Practice
College of Law, London
Legal Practice Course (LPC), Law
University of Westminster
Master of Laws (LLM), International Commercial Law
Coventry University
BA. Hons, Law
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