Bola Tinubu

Bola Tinubu is the Managing Partner of Olajide Oyewole LLP (DLA Piper Africa, Nigeria) and leads the firm's Corporate Practice and Boardroom Counsel Practice. She is a trusted advisor to boards, with over 30 years of experience in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and ESG. She advises multi‑national companies, public entities and closely‑held businesses across a broad range of sectors on governance, regulatory and compliance matters, and has extensive experience in public company reporting obligations and embedding good corporate governance practices.

Her transactional practice includes representing strategic and financial buyers and sellers, private companies, and institutional investors in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructuring, and the negotiation of complex agreements with strategic partners. She is an ESG specialist, focusing on sustainability governance, corporate governance, director duties, business ethics and anti‑corruption, climate change, and global supply chain transparency. In 2023, she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership.

She holds an LL.B (details not specified) and is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.