Throwback: Meet the Nigerian who led Gatwick Airport Acquisition! A Nigerian, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has acquired the London Gatwick Airport as the new owner. The Gatwick deal is a £1.455 billion agreement with BAA Airports Limited. Adebayo Ogunlesi, 56, is the chairman and managing partner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an independent investment fund based in New York City with worldwide stake in infrastructure assets,is the new owner of the London Gatwick Airport. The Nigerian who led Gatwick Airport Acquisition attended prestigious King’s College, Lagos.
He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He was a lecturer at Harvard Law School and the Yale School. Ogunlesi, whose father was the first Nigerian-born medical professor, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard. Ogunlesi has lived in New York for 20 years and is active in volunteer work. But he also cultivates his ties to Africa. He informally advises the Nigerian government on privatisation. The late Manute Bol, former NBA center, visited Ogunlesi in his Park Avenue office, seeking donations for a charitable foundation in former basketball star Manute Bol’s homeland, Sudan.
Ogunlesi walked the late Bol around the hallways, introducing him to junior staff. It was just another day in the Bayosphere.
Prior to his current role, he was executive vice chairman and chief client officer of Credit Suisse, based in New York. He previously served as a member of Credit Suisse’s Executive Board and Management Council and chaired the Chairman’s Board. Previously, he was the Global Head of Investment Banking at Credit Suisse. Since joining Credit Suisse in 1983, Ogunlesi has advised clients on strategic transactions and financings in a broad range of industries and has worked on transactions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
In the US, he is known as the Nigerian who clerked for late Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall, who they say was unable to pronounce his name and quickly dubbed him Obeedoogee. Colleagues and friends call him Bayo.
Ogunlesi is very much in touch with developments in his homeland Africa. In Nigeria, as an informal adviser to former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Ogunlesi has been known to advise successive governments on fiscal policies, economic development and strategic management…. Amongst other things has been involved in…AFC, IFC it was AFC that led Africa’s participation in the $750 million syndicated lending facility to develop Ghana’s Jubilee Oil Field, which is deemed one of West Africa’s largest deep-water offshore developments in over a decade.
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Bayo-ogunlesibayo-ogunlesiThrowback : rencontrer le nigérianqui a dirigé le Gatwick Airport Acquisition ! Un nigérian, AdebayoOgunlesi, a acquis l’aéroport Gatwick de Londres comme lenouveau propriétaire. Le deal de Gatwick est un contrat de £1,455 milliards avec Limited d’aéroports BAA. Adebayo Ogunlesi,56, est président et associé directeur, Global InfrastructurePartners (GIP), un fonds d’investissement indépendant basé àNew York City qui ont un intérêt dans le monde entier dans lesbiens d’infrastructure, est le nouveau propriétaire de l’aéroportde Gatwick de Londres. Le nigérian qui a dirigé d’Acquisition del’aéroport de Gatwick a College du roi prestigieux, Lagos. Il estmembre de l’Association du Barreau du District de Columbia. Il a été professeur à la Harvard Law School et l’école de Yale.Ouattara, dont le père fut le premier professeur de médecinnigérian, a étudié la philosophie, de politique et d’économie àOxford et puis obtenu des diplômes de droit et d’affaires deHarvard. Ouattara a vécu à New York depuis 20 ans et est activedans le bénévolat. Mais il cultive également ses liens avecl’Afrique. Officieusement, il conseille le gouvernement nigériansur la privatisation. La fin Manute Bol, ancien centre de la NBA,s’est rendu à ouattara dans son bureau de Park Avenue, cherchedons pour une fondation de bienfaisance dans la patrie de Manute Bol étoiles ancien basket-ball, Soudan.
