Coronation Capital
At Coronation Capital we have a culture built on innovation and high ethical standards, we invest in lucrative, sustainable, and financially viable businesses, that will become champions of Africa's economy.
What We Do
We provide state-of-the-art financial services to discerning clients with sophisticated investment-related needs. Our expertise cuts across financial advisory, financing arrangement, and investment management. We combine strategic partnerships with a pedigree of excellence to deliver valuable results to our prestigious institutional and individual clients.
Financial Advisory
We offer advisory services on the alternative/illiquid investment asset class to individual and institutional investors. Our services include: Financial and Transaction Advisory, Business Valuation and Negotiation and Business Development and Corporate Restructuring. We offer distinct advantages to investors by leveraging our broader ecosystem comprising a connected and sophisticated financial services platform. Additionally, we make available the expertise of a central investment team and a dedicated investment adviser to each client.
Financing Arrangement
We assist companies and investment partners who require co-investors to fund a transaction or entrepreneurs who are looking to raise primary or secondary capital for strategic investment purposes. In this regard we provide the following solutions: Equity Capital Raise: assisting potential and existing clients (businesses) raise equity capital; and Debt Capital Raise: arranging debt capital funding or loans for clients. Our competitive edge offers our clientele a unique advantage, as we leverage the Coronation brand to provide access to an expansive pool of credible and readily accessible investors.
Investment Management
We actively assist our clients to monitor their investment portfolios of illiquid assets to help them take advantage of value-enhancing opportunities and attractive exit opportunities. We offer the following services: Private Equity and Venture Capital, Private Credit, Securitized Credit and Distressed Debt, and Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management. By leveraging our vast ecosystem, we are positioned to offer more through our experienced and interconnected financial services platform, an admirable talent resource with broad financial services skillsets, and the expertise of a renowned investment team providing dedicated and personalized advisory services to our esteemed clients.
Where we invest
We are driven by the vision of an economically viable Africa, and are attracted to make investments in sectors and businesses with a proven ability to deliver on this imperative.
Financial Services
Our competences include asset management, credit and savings models, insurance, and technology-driven loan platforms. We prioritise opportunities that clearly demonstrate product innovation, improved market penetration, channel efficiency and expansion along the financial services value chain.
Consumer Goods & Services
We understand that resources are not Africa’s only driver of growth. Underlying it, are her over 1 billion consumers. For this reason we strategically focus on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), Consumer Durables, Light Manufacturing, Agribusiness, Retail, Healthcare and Education amongst other opportunities that service critical and growing consumer needs.
Technology Enabled Solutions
We are mindful of the role played by technology and tech-enabled business models in shaping consumption patterns and competition across different sectors of the economy. That is why at Coronation Capital such solutions which address major problems inherent in African markets are key investment areas.
Board of Directors
Chairman- Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, CON
Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede is a highly respected private sector leader in Africa. He is the Founder and Chairman of Coronation Capital Nigeria Limited. He is also the Founder of the Africa Initiative for Governance (“AIG”). His career in banking and finance spans three decades and has earned him national as well as international recognition.
Ernest Ebi MFR- Non Executive Director
Mr. Ebi is a highly experienced public and private sector leader in Nigeria. He started his banking career in 1978 at the Community Federal Savings and Loan Association, Washington DC, USA, as Assistant Vice President/Controller.
Aigbovbioise Aig-Imoukhuede- Non Executive Director
Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede has over 22 years of experience as a diversified financial professional with expertise in wealth management, corporate banking, treasury and capital market transactions.
Ms. Chizoba Ufoeze - Non-Executive Director
Ms. Chizoba Ufoeze is an Investment Analyst with over two decades of experience in the financial services industry. She began her career as a Research Assistant with African Development Consulting Group and an Investment Officer with African Development Bank. She also worked with BGL Limited as an Investment Analyst and then as the Head of Investments of the Wealth Management Group.
Uche Wigwe- Non Executive Director
Mr Uche currently sits as the principal partner at Wigwe & Partners, he was Admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2005. Uche holds an LL.M. in Petroleum Law and Policy from the University Dundee, Scotland, an LL.B. from the University of Ibadan, and a BS.C in Banking and Finance from the University of Port Harcourt.
Wole Onasanya – Non-Executive Director
Mr. Onasanya has over 24 years’ financial services industry experience spanning M&A, financing transactions, strategic planning and insurance strategy development and implementation. Mr. Onasanya obtained a B.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
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Kayode Akindele - Managing Partner
Kayode graduated with a BA Hons Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford in 2001. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in London as an Audit & Assurance Associate in the Banking & Capital Markets division and then at Lloyds Banking Group as a Manager/Associate Director in the Risk Solutions Team within the Financial Markets Division.