Mr. Tijani is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an Associate Member of both the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Nigerian Institute of Stockbrokers with over two decades of hands-on experience in Accounting, Auditing, Financial Advisory Consulting, Capital Market Operations and Lecturing on Financial Reporting and Corporate Finance.
He is currently the Managing Partner of Kayode Tijani & Co., a firm of Chartered Accountants and Investment Consultants. With specialty in financial advisory consulting support services for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, in the area of financial planning, raising capital locally and internationally, business process re-engineering, corporatization and capital restructuring.
He was formerly the Financial Director of D N Meyer Plc., a paint manufacturing company
He started his career with Akintola Williams & Co (now Deloitte) in 1989, rising from qualified trainee to a Manager. He then joined First City Merchant Bank (now First City Monument Bank) as pioneer Financial Controller and was later transferred to the City Securities Limited Group where he rose to the position of Group Head of Operations as at the time he left in 2000.
He joined Societe Internationale Telecommunication Aeronautique (SITA) in 2000, as Regional Financial Controller (West Africa 2) from where he was transferred to Equant Nigeria Limited (a world leading telecommunication group owned by France Telecomm) as Director/Country Representative for Nigeria and Ghana. In this capacity, he was responsible for the restructuring of the operating structures of SITA (in Nigeria and Ghana) from non-profit making entities to profit making entities – Equant Nigeria Limited and Equant Ghana Limited.
From 2008, after leaving Equant Nigeria Limited, he returned to active participation in the Nigerian Capital Market as an Investment Banker and Financial Restructuring consultant with Goldbanc Management Associates Limited (formerly, Goldman Assets Management Ltd), an Issuing House and Financial Advisory registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In his capacity as the Chief Operating Officer of the firm he was actively involved in a leading capacity in the structuring of the Union Homes Plc’s Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and also handle the financial restructuring and sourcing of funds for NSE listed corporate entities locally and internationally.
In addition, for over 20 years on a part-time basis, he was involved in preparing students for professional examinations of ICAN and CIS in Accounting, Financial Reporting and Corporate Finance. He is currently an examiner with the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers.
He has attended various relevant courses both within and outside Nigeria. He is married with children.
Achievements:
- Investment banking and Capital Market Transactions:
- Co-Leader, Structuring of the N8b Union Homes Hybrid Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)
- Financial Adviser: Private Placement of N6b ordinary shares of Multitrex Integrated Foods Plc.,
- Financial Adviser: Restructuring of the N13.5b short term debts of Multitrex Integrated Foods Plc. To Equity, Redeemable Preference Shares and 9years term Loan.
- Financial Adviser: Restructuring of the JPY 400m Bond with Options issued by Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc.
- Financial Adviser: Issuance of JPY 1,350m Bond with Options by Equity Assurance Plc.
- Financial Adviser and Local Arranger of the $700m Equity and Debt Capital to be raised by an SPV of Oats Global Energy Limited for the construction of a 746MW Thermal Power Plant. (On-going)
- Financial adviser: Avanage Ltd – Raising of Equity and Debt capital for the take-off of the ATM Sales and Services business.
- Financial Consultancy:
- Lead Consultant: Restructuring of the Finance and Accounts Department of LASACO Assurance Plc.
- Lead Consultant: Merger and Integration of the Cash In Transit Businesses of Enterprise Transport & Logistics Ltd and ALVAC Company Ltd
- Lead Consultant: Restructuring of the Business Processes and Corporatization of Enterprise Transport and Logistics Limited
- Financial Adviser to Eidridge Investments Limited – Acquisition of the IAD License of the ATM Consortium Ltd.
- Lead Financial Adviser to Chicken at Door Ltd: Raising of N50m Capital Fund for the expansion of the Chicken processing plant and integration backward into Poultry Farming.
- Audit and Accountancy:
- Financial Due Diligence on a Target Stockbroking Company to be acquired by Goldbanc Management Associates Ltd. (On-going)
- Audit of Mcminet Oil Services Ltd
- Audit of Parker Technical Company Ltd
- Accountancy Services for Chicken at Door Ltd.
