INVESTMENT BANKING
Who We Are
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.
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.
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 & management buyouts amongst others.
UNDERWRITING
We assist issuers underwrite their offerings, acting either as sole underwriter or joint underwriter.
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.
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.
EQUITY CAPITAL RAISING
We help clients execute primary market transactions from origination to execution and distribution.
STRUCTURED / PROJECT FINANCE
We help our clients with tailor made solutions to meet their financial needs
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.
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING
We work with our clients to workout value-adding strategies. We critically evaluate all the issues negatively impacting performance, identify the relevant risks, assess the strategic alternatives, develop and execute comprehensive plans to address these challenges and come up with solutions.
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.
Our Track Record
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
DIRECTOR
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
DIRECTOR
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.
Chief Franklyn Okeke
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Chief Okeke is an accomplished entrepreneur with diversified interests across key sectors of the economy,
Chief Okeke is an accomplished entrepreneur with diversified interests across key sectors of the economy, including agriculture, property development, and manufacturing. His group of companies holds the franchise for leading European utensils and cosmetics brands across Africa.
He serves as the Executive Chairman of Umobi Farms and Foods Processing Company Limited and is a board member of Anambra Group of Companies and Bufambra Industries Limited.
Dr Nosike Agokei
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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.
