Ijeoma E. Okoli is a US finance lawyer with 10 years of experience. She has practiced in both New York and London at top international law firms and a multinational bank and advised on multi-million and billion dollar finance transactions for a diverse group of clients ranging from banks to utilities to private equity firms in jurisdictions such as Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and the United States of America, Africa.

She also advises on the flurry of new financial regulation proposed and/or adopted in both the European Union and the United States, such as the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation.

In March 2010, she organized a conference on investment opportunities in Africa, hosted by the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, which looked at the issue from both business and legal points of view. Participation in the conference was secured from Goldman Sachs, Tullow Oil, the World Bank and a number of other international law firms based in London. She was also invited by the World Bank to take part in and provide input at a conference organized by the World Bank in Washington D.C. in February 2010 on a similar topic. She was a featured speaker on investments in Africa at a conference at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford in May 2010.

She obtained a B.A. in History and a M.P.A. in Public Finance and Public Policy from New York University and a J. D. from Cornell Law School in New York.

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