BOLANLE ODUNTAN

Bolanle Oduntan is a corporate and transaction lawyer with over a decade experience in transaction lead and support. He has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, compliance, corporate immigration, dispute mitigation and resolution. He has advised on several high-profile projects and pioneer commercial briefs in the automotive sector – both in-house and law firm experience. He has advised several multinational companies in the financial, agricultural, fast moving commercial goods, and broadcasting sectors, and provided legal support to start-ups and SMEs. He successfully supports several tech startups and has represented both foreign investors and investee companies in Series A funding rounds. He also provided company secretarial and board support services to both private and publicly listed companies, advising Boards and Board Committees from time to time. He is company secretary and technical legal adviser to over 18 privately held companies with a combined turnover of N200 Billion Naira. Bolanle has also helped lead several acquisitions of technical broadcast capacity, content aggregation, content acquisition and contract renegotiation. He is an astute negotiator and transaction support counsel. His recent role involved him coordinating strategic business expansions and divestments in a group of companies operating in the agricultural and agro-industrial sector, while also coordinating multi-million dollar transactions in foreign procurements and off-take exports. ‘Bolanle is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) Nigeria, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the Compliance Institute Nigeria (CIN), Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration and the Young ICCA of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, among others.