Yinka Edu

Yinka Edu is a Partner in the firm’s Banking & Finance team and heads the firm’s Capital Markets team. She has been involved in a diverse range of financial and capital markets transactions including advising on the first global depositary receipts programme, the first Eurobond issuance by a Nigerian Corporate and the establishment of the first ETF to be listed in Nigeria. She regularly advises on the establishment of mutual funds, derivatives transactions and on public Merger & Acquisition transactions.

She advises on issues relating to the Nigerian bond market and on compliance issues in connection with banking and capital market assignments, many of which, being innovative or new to Nigeria, often require skilled liaison with our regulatory authorities, and was a core member of the team that advised several local banks with the 2008 banking consolidation mergers.

Yinka has published articles in Getting the Deal Through – Securities Finance – Nigeria and The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Mergers & Acquisitions. She presents papers and conducts seminars at the IBA Conferences on security for bank lending and on capital markets’ issues. She chairs the Capital Markets’ Solicitors Association of Nigeria and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law Competition Committee.

Yinka is ranked in Chambers Global for expertise in banking & finance and corporate/commercial practice and is commended for her banking and finance and capital markets work in the current edition of Who’s Who Legal, and sits on the board of several companies.