Bola Tinubu, Partner, DLA Piper Africa, Nigeria

Bola Tinubu leads the Corporate Practice at DLA Piper Africa’s office in Nigeria. She has a wealth of experience spanning almost 30 years in advising businesses with interests in Nigeria on corporate acquisitions and disposals, strategic partnerships, and complex group re-organizations.

She also leads the firm’s Board Advisory Service as a trusted advisor to public, private and family enterprises with a special focus on Corporate Governance, ESG Law & Sustainability Leadership. Her counsel is regularly sought by company boards on performance matters, ethical issues, and in times of corporate crises.

A strategic thinker, Bola is a seasoned Non-Executive Director and Tri-Sector Chair, leading boards across private, public, and development sectors including The Boardroom Africa and The Lagos State Office of the Public Defender. Bola is respected for her thought leadership on corporate leadership, with numerous publications and articles to her credit, and she combines her passion for knowledge and business governance to serve on the faculty the IoD Academy UK as a Course Leader.

She is the first female Chartered Director in Africa, a Harvard Certified Corporate Director, a Chartered Governance Professional, a Chartered Company Secretary, a Global ESG Competent Board Designate and a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional.

She has also been awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Directors, UK, the Institute of Directors, Nigeria, the Governance Institute UK and the Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, Nigeria.

Bola was named by the BBC in its 2018 list of 100 inspiring and influential women around the world for her charity work with children who have been abused. She was also named one of Nigeria’s most inspiring women in 2019 by Leading Ladies Africa.

Bola is a published author.