Speaker details

Internationalisation Conference: helping local lawyers with the internationalisation of legal practice

8 Dec 2025

Four points by Sheraton, Lagos, Nigeria

Speaker information

Yinka Edu

Biography

Yinka is a Partner at Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, an international corporate law firm in Nigeria. She heads the firm’s Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, and FinTech teams. She has been involved in a range of financial and capital markets transactions, including advising on the first global depositary receipts programme, the first Eurobond issuance by a Nigerian Corporate, and the establishment of the first ETF to be listed in Nigeria. She regularly advises lenders providing finance to sustainability linked loans to Nigerian borrowers.

Session

Legal gatekeepers of global finance: how jurisdictional counsel shape cross-border capital raising

Monday 8 December (1135 - 1235)

Session Chair

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