BIOGRAPHY
Founding Partner, DEAL HQ Partners, Nigeria
Tosin Ajose is a business lawyer with over a decade experience. She is well known for her commercial savvy, excellent analytical skills, vast transactional experience and her relentless desire to add value to her clients through innovative solutions, forward thinking and attention to details.
An astute public speaker and an IFLR ranked leading lawyer in financial restructuring and capital markets, Tosin has over 500 high value transactions to her credit across, corporate commercial,
mergers & acquisition, private equity, capital markets, real estate, finance(project/corporate) and infrastructure practice areas. Tosin, is a Partner and the Lead Advisor at DealHQ Partners, an Africafocused transaction advisory firm in Lagos, Nigeria. She was recognized at the Nigerian Legal Awards as one of 40 under 40 lawyers in Nigeria in 2018 and in 2019 she was named “the Africa Woman in Real Estate” by API, South Africa.
Tosin, has done extensive policy work in the Financial Services space, first as a Legal Enabler under the Central Bank of Nigeria’s FSS 2020 initiative, subsequently as a professional member of the National Housing Finance Programme set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance with a mandate to overhaul the Nigerian mortgage finance sector, she is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the African Proptech Forum, a member of SEC Committee on Market Infrastructure and Commodities and a volunteer with the Presidential Delivery Unit, office of the President Federal Republic of Nigeria and a member of the housing and urban development thematic group of the National Economic Summit Group. Tosin is a thought leader in the Finance, Real Estate, Construction and Capital Markets space, she holds to her credit several speaking engagements annually both within and outside the legal industry. She is a regular resource person and trainer at the Pan African University (Lagos Business School) and a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the Centre for Housing Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria where she teaches Business Economics under the Masters in Housing Programme.
Tosin is a member of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria and sits on the Board of 3 indigenous Nigerian Companies and 2 not for profit board where her contributions to strategic thinking and governance are greatly acknowledged.
