
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. Ogunlesi attended the 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. And
last summer 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 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.
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