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OYINKAN ALAKIJA

Managing Partner at Gresyndale Legal

Oyinkan Alakija is the Managing Partner at Gresyndale Legal. She is a seasoned legal practitioner with over two decades of post-call experience spanning various areas of law.

Oyinkan leads a team of lawyers who provide expert and hands-on legal and business solutions to its clients, who range from individual investors to organizations across Africa, Asia, America, and Europe wishing to set up their businesses in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. She is adept at promoting business sustenance by providing advisory, legal and compliance services. Her flair for international corporate law means she can best advise, and structure multiregional businesses, and her understanding of several legal spheres also places her in the best stead to answer questions clients are not even aware of. She is a solution-driven legal practitioner who partners with clients to deliver success.

A versatile, energetic, and creative business-minded legal practitioner with proven success in assisting individual investors, SMEs, conglomerates, and multinationals to set up and grow their businesses across Africa. Her core areas of practice are international business transactions and franchises. She is interested in anti-corruption practices, seeing corruption as one of the largest detractors to investment in Africa, which is the cradle of tomorrow’s success.

She is an avid writer of legal articles and fiction and non-fiction books and has published several on different channels. She is a mother of 4 and a committed Christian.

She is the legal advisor and company secretary to several multinational organisations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Maritime Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Commercial Law
  • International Business Law
  • Corporate Finance

MAJOR CASES & SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Setting up of the Domino’s franchise in Nigeria
  • Assisted Client expansion from 1 location to over 70 locations
  • Assisted Client in the raising of 3.5bn capital from the capital market via a bond issuance programme
  • Facilitated Client expansion to Kenya
  • Processing of pioneer status for a client
  • Establishment of a manufacturing plant in the Lekki Free Trade Zone.

SCHOOLS ATTENDED

  • University of Kent, London LLB. Hons.
  • Nigerian Law School, Lagos B.L
  • Tanaka Business School MBA
  • University of Kent, London M.Sc. International Economic Law
  • Harvard Business School – African Entrepreneurship
  • MIT – Processes and Systems

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  • Member, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
  • Member, International Bar Association
  • Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants.

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