Emmanuel Ohiri

Mr Emmanuel Ohiri is the Head of Legal Foreign Subsidiaries at the Guaranteed Trust Bank. He graduated with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division) in Law from the prestigious University of Lagos in 2013. Some of his achievements as a student are: President and Vice President of the Moot Society, Faculty of Law of the University; participant and Top Ten Best Memorials at the 22nd All African Moot Court Competition, University of Pretoria; the founder of Ohiri Tutorial for law students; the pioneer member of the Young African Research Arena (YARA); and Chairman Steering Committee, 2nd Chief Wole Olaonipekun Moot Court Competition. He acquired his Bachelor at Laws (BL) at the Nigerian Law School in 2014 and his Masters in Business Administration – MBA, Banking, Corporate, Finance and Securities Law from University of South Wales in 2020.

He began his legal career as a Paralegal at F.O Akindele & Co. within September and November 2011, then as a Research Associate at Brandsmith Consulting in October and November 2013, Paralegal at Kunle Sofola & Co. in June and July 2014, Associate at The New Practice (TNP) in December 2014 to February 2017, Legal Practitioner at Oando Plc in June to September 2017, Head of Business Development at Stark Legal between August 2017 to December 2018, Senior Legal Analyst at Condros Capital Limited within January 2019 and April 2020, until he got appointment at Guaranty Trust Bank as a Corporate Legal Counsel.

He got certified in the following; Regulatory Technology Foundation Class issued by the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 2019, Financial Markets by Cousera in 2016,  Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling by the Wharton School. He also volunteered as an Assistant Litigation Officer at Nigerian Legal Aid.