Tosin Ajose

Tosin Ajose is a business lawyer with circa 2 decades’ transactional experience advising global businesses, corporations, and HNIs on premium Africa-focused deals. She is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Business Concierge” because of her unmatched knowledge of Africa’s nuanced deal-making culture.

She is the Founder of one of Africa’s fastest growing Transactional Law Firms and one of the few female founders of transactional law firms in Africa - DealHQ Africa. With over 1000 high-value transactions to her credit across corporate, commercial, mergers & acquisitions, construction/projects, capital markets, real estate, finance(project/corporate).

Tosin is ranked as a leading lawyer in finance, capital markets, energy and infrastructure, construction, and real estate by leading global ranking firms such as Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Legal 500, and Lexology. In 2018, Tosin was recognized as one of 40 under 40 lawyers in Nigeria, and in 2019, she was named “Africa Woman in Real Estate” by API, South Africa.

Tosin is a strong gender policy advocate. She founded WWR (Women Wealth and Real Estate) an Africa-wide community of over 3000, advocating for parity in wealth distribution and property ownership, and a Gender and Youth Champion for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. An ardent gender lens researcher and publisher, Tosin continues to advance conversions on balance through her transactional and research work.

A trainer, community aggregator, and thought leader, Tosin holds to her credit several international speaking engagements annually, both within and outside the legal industry. She is a regular resource person and trainer at the Lagos Business School (Pan African University) and a member of the Adjunct Faculty for the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development, University of Lagos, where she teaches Business Economics under the Master's in Housing Programme.

Tosin, a member of the Executive Committee of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce and the Vice Chairman of its Real Estate and Construction Committee, is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, where she serves on the Mentors’ Board. A seasoned Board Executive, she currently sits on the boards of four indigenous Nigerian Companies (insurance, oil and gas, mining, and packaging) and two not-for-profit boards, where her contributions to strategic thinking and governance are greatly acknowledged.