INVESTMENT BANKING
Who We Are
The investment banking arm of Planet Capital Limited offers world-class financial services to its clients by providing optimal financing options to support their short-term or long-term strategic objectives, including but not limited to corporate growth, business acquisitions, mergers, recapitalization, leveraged buyouts, and management buyouts, among others.
Planet Capital Limited is an investment-banking boutique registered with Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We provide strategic advisory services to a wide-range of clients including, high Net worth Individuals (HNIs), Corporate, Financial and Governmental Institutions. Broadly, our service offerings are in the areas of: corporate finance, financial advisory, investment advisory and securities trading.
We are licensed to operate as an issuing house, underwriter, stockbrokers, and financial advisers. We are well peopled to deliver on this range of services, and continually seek to attract people with strong industry experience.
Our Services
Debt Capital Raising
We offer our clients the best options for raising capital to support their long-term business objectives in the area of growth, acquisitions, recapitalization, leveraged buyouts, and management buyouts amongst others.
Equity Capital Raising
We help clients execute primary market transactions from origination to execution and distribution.
Underwriting
We assist issuers underwrite their offerings, acting either as sole underwriter or joint underwriter.
Structured/Project Finance
We help our clients with tailor made solutions to meet their financial needs.
Valuation And Fairness Opinion
We provide a broad range of Valuation and Fairness Opinion advisory that enables our clients to boldly make strategic business decisions.
Merger And Acquisition
We provides merger and acquisition advisory services to its clients on some of the most complex transactions. Our objective here is to structure value-creating deals for our clients.
Asset Sale And Divestiture
We assist our clients extract value from sub-optimally performing assets by carrying out requisite valuation of the assets, bidders’ profiling and pre-qualification, and managing the entire asset sale process in support of portfolio management and allocation efficiency.
Our Services
We offer our clients the best options for raising capital to support their long-term business objectives in the area of growth, acquisitions, recapitalization, leveraged buyouts, and management buyouts amongst others.
We help clients execute primary market transactions from origination to execution and distribution.
We assist issuers underwrite their offerings, acting either as sole underwriter or joint underwriter.
We help our clients with tailor made solutions to meet their financial needs.
We provide a broad range of Valuation and Fairness Opinion advisory that enables our clients to boldly make strategic business decisions.
We provides merger and acquisition advisory services to its clients on some of the most complex transactions. Our objective here is to structure value-creating deals for our clients.
We assist our clients extract value from sub-optimally performing assets by carrying out requisite valuation of the assets, bidders’ profiling and pre-qualification, and managing the entire asset sale process in support of portfolio management and allocation efficiency.
The investment banking arm of Planet Capital Limited offers world-class financial services to its clients by providing optimal financing options to support their short-term or long-term strategic objectives, including but not limited to corporate growth, business acquisitions, mergers, recapitalization, leveraged buyouts, and management buyouts, among others.
Planet Capital Limited is an investment-banking boutique registered with Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We provide strategic advisory services to a wide-range of clients including, high Net worth Individuals (HNIs), Corporate, Financial and Governmental Institutions. Broadly, our service offerings are in the areas of: corporate finance, financial advisory, investment advisory and securities trading.
We are licensed to operate as an issuing house, underwriter, stockbrokers, and financial advisers. We are well peopled to deliver on this range of services, and continually seek to attract people with strong industry experience.
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING
We collaborate closely with our clients to develop value-adding strategies that drive sustainable growth. Our approach involves conducting thorough evaluations of factors adversely affecting performance, identifying key risks, and carefully assessing strategic alternatives. We then design and implement comprehensive action plans to address these challenges effectively and deliver practical, results-oriented solutions.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mr. Efe Akhigbe
DIRECTOR
Mr. Akhigbe is a Director and Co-CEO at Planet Capital Group. He is a Bank of Boston-trained credit.
Mr. Akhigbe is a Director and Co-CEO at Planet Capital Group. He is a Bank of Boston-trained credit expert and an Investment Banker. Efe is a university scholar and has attended several academic and professional institutions in Nigeria and overseas. He holds the following degrees: BSc Business Administration (University of Benin), MBA – Finance (University of Lagos) and MSc Financial Analysis and Fund Management (University of Exeter, UK). He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (ACTI).
Mr. Akhigbe has attended various courses in Credit Analysis and Structuring, Real Estate Financing Strategies, Citibank NY Correspondent Bankers Seminars, Valuation, and Capital Markets, amongst others. Efe commenced his career as a Credit Analyst with First National Bank of Boston in 1988, and later worked with Victory Merchant Bank as a senior Credit Analyst, and Leverrete Investments Limited as Financial Consultant, between 1994 and 1996. He joined United Bank for African (UBA) Plc in 1997, and helped set up UBA Securities, the investment-banking subsidiary of the Bank. He was with the UBA Group from 1997 to 2009.
In the course of his career, Efe has been involved in transactions covering Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance Advisory and was involved in Transaction Advisory assignments for the Federal Government of Nigeria under the privatisation programmes. Efe was a member of the National Bond Steering Committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to reactivate the Nigerian Bond Market. He is a SEC-registered-sponsored individual and Capital Market Operator.
Dr. Tony Anonyai
Co-CEO, Planet Capital Group
Dr Tony Anonyai is the associate Team Lead, and a Co-CEO at the Planet Capital Group.
Dr. Tony Anonyai
Dr Tony Anonyai is the associate Team Lead, and a Co-CEO at the Planet Capital Group. He has extensive hands-on experience in corporate finance, corporate governance, and capital markets advisory services, and expertly combines these competencies in advising clients as they seek to transform their organisations and sustainably improve financial performance. He began his career in 1990 with the professional accounting firm of Anjous, Uku, Eweka & Co. (Chartered Accountants) and later worked with Capri-Martins Finance Limited as an Accountant. In 1994, he set up a financial intermediation and advisory firm, Ouec Investment Limited, and in 2005, he founded and became the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Strategy & Arbitrage Limited, a brokerage and dealing member firm of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and one of the legacy companies in Planet Capital Limited.
Tony holds a PhD in International Business, specialising in Finance, from the International School of Management, Paris, and Master of Banking and Finance Degree from the University of Lagos. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, and an Associate of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, and has attended several high-profile executive and professional development courses at the Lagos Business School, IESE Business School, and Harvard Business School.
Dr Anonyai is the board chair of ATASoftec Limited, and a board member in Consolidated Hallmark Holding Plc, Electronic PayPlus Limited, Chateau Royal Real Estate Limited. He is the vice-chairman of the Financial Services & Capital Markets Committee of the Chartered Institute of Directors of Nigeria. He is a member of the Trade, Investment & Competitiveness Policy Commission of The Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
Mr. Chidi Agbapu
CHAIRMAN
Mrs. Aderonke Adedeji is a Director with Planet Governance Advisory Limited.
Mrs. Aderonke Adedeji is a Director with Planet Governance Advisory Limited. She is an investment banker par excellence and has extensive experience in financial services and corporate development. She is also currently a Non-Executive Director with the Prestige Assurance Plc and Leadway Holdings Limited. She was the Managing Director of Leadway Pensure PFA Limited between 2006 to 2021, and was President of the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp). Mrs. Adedeji is a value-oriented focused professional.
Before Leadway Pensure PFA Limited, Ronke was an Executive Director with MBC Merchant Bank, where she was at different times responsible for Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Private Banking, Corporate Management, Securities and Portfolio Management. She set up and had oversight of the Bank’s subsidiaries – MBC Securities Limited and MBC Insurance Brokers. Ronke started her banking career with ICON Merchant Bankers where she worked in both Treasury and Corporate Finance Departments and was Head of the Capital Issues Division.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria (ICAN), the Chartered Association of Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria (CPIN). She has attended top-level executive development courses, including the Chief Executive Program of the Lagos Business School, the High Potential Leadership Program at Wharton Business School, the Leadership Awareness through Experience and Practice Program at INSEAD Business School and the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Program at Stanford Business School.
Chief Franklyn Okeke
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Chief Okeke is a distinguished entrepreneur with extensive and diversified interests across key sectors of the economy.
Chief Okeke is a distinguished entrepreneur with extensive and diversified interests across key sectors of the economy, including Agriculture, Property Development, and Manufacturing. Renowned for his strategic vision and business acumen, he has successfully built and managed a dynamic group of companies with strong operational footprints.
His conglomerate holds the franchise rights to leading European utensils and cosmetics brands, with distribution coverage spanning across Africa, demonstrating his capacity for international partnerships and large-scale market penetration.
Chief Okeke currently serves as the Executive Chairman of Umobi Farms and Foods Processing Company Limited, where he provides strategic leadership and drives sustainable growth initiatives within the agribusiness value chain.
In addition, he is a board member of Anambra Group of Companies and Bufambra Industries Limited, contributing his wealth of experience in corporate governance, strategic expansion, and operational excellence.
His leadership style reflects innovation, resilience, and a commitment to long-term value creation.
Dr Nosike Agokei
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dr. Abdul Buhari is a Director. He is a management consultant par excellence.
Dr. Abdul Buhari is a Director. He is a management consultant par excellence with over 35 years’ experience. He joined KPMG in Nigeria in July 1985 and worked with the consulting group for twenty-five years rising to the position of Partner to lead the KPMG Centre of Excellence for Banking Services Consulting for the whole of the African continent. Over the period, his consulting engagements at both KPMG and Deloitte crossed sectoral lines. Following the merger of KPMG Nigeria and Deloitte in Nigeria, he became the risk leader for the consulting practice for the Deloitte West and Central African region. He was also the key facilitator for all the management and finance trainings carried out by KPMG for private sector organizations, including banks, between 1985 and 2000.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana (1979), a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1982), and a PhD in International Business from the International School of Management (ISM), Paris, France.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (HCIB). Dr. Buhari is an adjunct faculty of the Lagos Business School, Pan African University, where he teaches the MBA, AMP, and SMP programmes. He has facilitated the Mandatory Continuing Professional Education (MCPE) programmes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
Over a period of 15 years, he was involved in preparing students for the professional examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He has written four textbooks, namely – ICAN Economics, Monetary Economics, Public Finance and Questions and Answers on Monetary Economics for the professional examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
