IFLR podcast: in conversation with Olaniwun Ajayi The winners of Most Innovative Nigerian Law Firm of the Year in 2020 discuss some of last year’s ground-breaking work and what lies ahead in the capital markets, power sector, telecoms and more March 11 2021 In the latest instalment of our podcast, IFLR speaks with Nigerian law firm partners Olaniwun Ajayi, Muyiwa Balogun, Yewande Senbore and Ibi Ogunbiyi. Olaniwun Ajayi was named Nigerian Law Firm of the Year in IFLR’s inaugural Africa Awards. This award came off the back of its innovative work on several pioneering transactions. One particularly notable deal was the initial public offering (IPO) of telecoms company Airtel. The IPO raised several first-of-its-kind challenges and was a huge milestone in the Nigerian capital markets. As Yewande Senbore explains, the listing was the first foreign inward IPO in Nigeria and the first to be executed in parallel with a capital raise on a second market (London Stock Exchange). Aligning rules and schedules between London and Lagos was paramount to the deal’s success.