Kareemat Ijaiya

Position: Legal and Compliance Manager
Categories: Corporate Services

Kareemat is a legal practitioner with over six years of experience in corporate legal advisory. She currently supports Sahel Capital’s investment activities by ensuring regulatory compliance, managing legal risks, and assisting with transaction structuring and execution.

Her experience covers corporate governance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and non-interest finance.

Before joining Sahel Capital as Legal and Compliance Manager, Kareemat was a Senior Associate in the Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity practice at Aluko & Oyebode, a leading Nigerian law firm, where she worked on major transactions involving multinational companies and financial institutions, providing legal support on corporate restructuring, capital raising, and complex finance matters.

Kareemat holds an LL.B (Second Class Upper) from Usmanu Danfodiyo University and a Bar Qualification Certificate with First Class Honours from the Nigerian Law School.