Funkola Odeleye

Funkola Odeleye is a co-founder and partner at TLP Advisory, heading the Company Secretarial, Employment Law and Compliance practice at the firm. 

She has a background in corporate-commercial law firm practice with years of in-house counsel experience in investment banking. Funkola’s experience cuts across corporate governance, transaction and investment advisory, intellectual property and compliance.
Funkola has a Masters in Finance and Financial Law from the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in addition to her LLB from the Lagos State University and BL from the Nigerian Law School.

She is a Cartier Women’s Initiative 2020 Fellow, 2019 Obama Africa Leader, 2019 Sub-Saharan winner and Global Finalist of the Entrepreneurial Award of the British Council Study UK Alumni Award, 2019 Africa 35 under 35 Laureate and a 2015 Innovating Justice Fellow of The Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law (HiiL). Funkola was recently recognised as 1 of 5 business leaders whose work significantly impacts their countries’ economies by the Reykjavík Global Forum.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and sudoku.