A Vision for Growth under New Leadership at Lagos Free Zone
18 October, 2024
Adesuwa Ladoja is a legal, business and regulatory expert with strong project management abilities. A seasoned lawyer, Adesuwa holds a second-class upper Bachelor of Law degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a Masters of Law degree (with merit) from King’s College, University of London.
A member of the Nigerian and International Bar Associations, she was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993, the same year she started her career as an Associate of Law at Ajumogobia & Okeke, where she acquired a vast knowledge of general commercial practice and litigation, banking and finance, maritime claims, arbitration, corporate law and insolvency. A notable project was working with a team of lawyers to negotiate and settle claims following an oil spill in the Niger Delta for Mobil Oil.
She moved on to KPMG Professional Services (formerly Arthur Andersen) where she would spend a decade in the business regulatory unit and the tax, regulatory and people services division rising to the position of senior manager.
While at KPMG, she conducted several tax reviews and audits as well as due diligence exercises in several business sectors including the oil and gas sectors. She was also responsible for carrying out external company secretarial functions for several companies including Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria Limited, Clean Nigeria Limited (a partnership of major E&P companies in Nigeria), and others. Highly experienced in obtaining regulatory permits, approvals, certificates from sundry governmental and other regulatory bodies, also compensation and benefits advisory services, Adesuwa led a team of tax and people services consultants that worked with the technical sub-committee of the Presidential Committee on Consolidation of Emoluments in the Public Sector, inaugurated by the President at the time.
A member of the Nigerian and International Bar Associations, she was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993, the same year she started her career as an Associate of Law at Ajumogobia & Okeke, where she acquired a vast knowledge of general commercial practice and litigation, banking and finance, maritime claims, arbitration, corporate law and insolvency. A notable project was working with a team of lawyers to negotiate and settle claims following an oil spill in the Niger Delta for Mobil Oil.
She moved on to KPMG Professional Services (formerly Arthur Andersen) where she would spend a decade in the business regulatory unit and the tax, regulatory and people services division rising to the position of senior manager.
While at KPMG, she conducted several tax reviews and audits as well as due diligence exercises in several business sectors including the oil and gas sectors. She was also responsible for carrying out external company secretarial functions for several companies including Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria Limited, Clean Nigeria Limited (a partnership of major E&P companies in Nigeria), and others. Highly experienced in obtaining regulatory permits, approvals, certificates from sundry governmental and other regulatory bodies, also compensation and benefits advisory services, Adesuwa led a team of tax and people services consultants that worked with the technical sub-committee of the Presidential Committee on Consolidation of Emoluments in the Public Sector, inaugurated by the President at the time.
