Etomilade Oduola

 Etomilade Oluwafifehanmi Oduola’s Brief Profile

Etomilade O. Oduola is an award-winning Law graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University and obtained a Barrister at Law degree from the Nigerian Law School (2007/2008).

He possesses more than a decade of experience in the Commercial cum Security Law industry. The experience traverses both corporate, public, and private spheres of the legal world. Before his foray into the Trust industry, Etomilade was in active practice with the reputable firm of Ajumogobia & Okeke where he garnered robust experience in banking cum commercial transactions among others. Etomilade subsequently joined First Trustees Ltd (now FBNQuest Trustees Ltd), a member of FBN Holding Ltd.

While in the Corporate Trust Unit of FBNQuest Trustees Ltd, Etomilade team was able to close several big-ticket institutional transactions relating to syndication lending and corporate bonds, collective investment schemes among others. He also handled several sensitive Private Trust transactions including very large and well-known Estates.  He has thus, over time, been involved in several sensitive Trust transactions and structuring both within personal and institutional space.  A Trustee, being a ‘gate-keeper’ and micro-regulator, Etomilade played a prominent role in institutionalizing processes in most of the Estates under management which subsequently led to the discovery of serial frauds being perpetrated in these Estates. Until his exit from FBN Holding’s Group, Etomilade for more than half a decade was an Editor of Legacy Series, a publication of FBNQuest Trustees Ltd in the dailies. Etomilade later left FBNQuest Trustees Ltd sometimes in 2017 to take over as a Partner at Rocksmith Partners Legal Practitioner till date, a boutique law firm in the heart of Lagos. Between 2017 and 2019, He also served as the Managing Consultant/CEO of Radix Trustees Ltd and has a consultant to many Trust Companies in Nigeria and abroad.

Etomilade bagged LLM degree from the University of Lagos and also a graduate of the London School of Business and Leadership.