About – Sophus

About Sophus

Sophus Consulting Limited is a wholesale capital markets consulting service focused on deepening African capital markets.
Our hands-on experience in supporting securities markets and our partnerships with complimentary subject matter experts enable us focues on delivering excellent advice and guidance in such areas as

Capital Market Infastructure

Capital Market Regulation

Securities Exchange Process Management

Issuer Compliance

Private Equity Liquidity Management

Digital Assets Issuance and Listing

Our Name & Logo

Sophus means WISDOM. This is a core quality that we bring to bear on all we do – Be it advising our clients, managing projects or even acccepting your mandate.
As a truly African Consulting firm such balance and careful consideration is captured in the Ghanian Symbol – the Nyansapo

What We Bring

Sophus is a practical solution oriented firm that holds our clients’ hands through all stages of innovation or reconstruction. We serve private equity firms and their portfolio companies with a focus on delivering a differentiated return on investment across the investment cycle.

We also support corporates and financial institutions with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by providing value through all the transaction stages: opportunity identification and valuation, project management office (PMO), negotiation support and sale process management, and post-merger integration (PMI).

The Team

Profile

Bola Ajomale is capital market professional who has worked fastidiously in the finance industry both local and abroad for over 30 years.
His experience covers accounting, stockbroking, investment banking, syndications, asset management, capital market regulation and fintech.
He has a deep passion for innovating to expand the depth of the capitla market and funding access to SMEs.
Bola read Economics with a major in accounting in the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire United Kingdom and graduated in 1984.

He has over the last 30 years continued to provide service to his community in the areas of finance and advice. Bola has also been an influencial advocate for financial literacy in Nigeria and improvement in the rules and practice of the financial market.

He has gathered over 15 years of chief executive experience and has pioneered two major start-ups .
As a leader, he demonstrated strong visionary, problem solving and communication skills.

Profile

Tokunbo is a highly versatile Investment and Commercial Law Legal Practitioner with over 34 years experience in the legal industry. He cut his teeth as an Advocate in Messrs Jide Bankole Oki & Co a reputable medium sized Law Firm established by a one time Attorney General of Lagos State. He joined the Firm in September 1985 and worked in various roles in the Firm for about 10 years rising to the position of Head of Chambers before leaving to join Prudential Group Limited as Company Secretary Legal Adviser. where he worked for over 12 years.

As Company Secretary/Legal Adviser he was responsible for provision of Company Secretarial and Legal Advisory services to the Companies within the Group structure which included companies engaged in Financial, Insurance, Consultancy, Information Technology and Import and Export trade services. He resigned from the Group to practice law by setting up One Pact Legal Associates where for the last 15 years he has been actively involved in representing a diverse Clientele list of Companies engaged in the Banking, Financial Services, Insurance and Real Estate sectors of the Nigerain economy.

Tokunbo has acquired varied cognate experience in litigation and has appeared in complex contentious matters before all the superior courts of record in Nigeria. Tokunbo is also an accomplished transactional lawyer having been involved in various merger processes particularly during the consolidation exercise in the Insurance Industry in 2005-2007.

Tokunbo studied Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University and was called to the Nigerian Bar in August 2004. He is a Member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Institute of Capital Market Registrars and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria. 1n 2010 he participated and passed the Specia Members Course of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators UK, though yet to be formally inducted as a Member.

Tokunbo is also a Certified Corporate Governance Audit and Board Evaluation professional having been certified by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria.

Our Clients

Clients currently engaged include Cooperatives, TK Tech, NASD OTC, SEC, CIS