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Zainab Babalola

Zainab Babalola

Work Department

Capital Markets: Debt & EquityPrivate EquityBanking & Finance

Position

Associate

Career

Zainab’s experience revolves around corporate restructuring and commercial transactions, spanning insolvency, Capital Markets, Private Equity and regulatory advisory services to international and domestic private investors. She advises companies, entrepreneurs and sponsors in various sectors including oil and gas, FMCG and renewable energy. 

She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) and provides business advisory services to clients in diverse areas. She is also a member of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) and a contributor to the “Resolving Insolvency” Chapter of the annual World Bank Doing Business publications

Zainab was very instrumental to the team that advised on Nigeria’s first Guaranteed Infrastructure Bond Issuance, Viathan Funding Plc’s N50 Billion senior guaranteed Bond Issuance Programme.

Languages

English

Memberships

Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners of Nigeria (BRIPAN); The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Nigeria Branch), Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN)

Education

University of Lagos (2010), Nigerian Law School (2012)

Leisure

Reading