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FreeStuffsNG:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-12/blackrock-buys-infrastructure-firm-gip-for-12-5-billion-in-alternatives-push?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Gamesmart:
Not a chance!

sukkot:
Nigeria’s Kase Lawal with a net worth of $3 Billion is America’s 4th richest black person

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/America-s-4th-richest-black-person-is-Nigeria-s-Kase-Lawal-with-a-net-worth-of--3-Billion.html?soid=1126399050330&aid=t15HqgFaJD0

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh. Indomie generation.


Adebayo Ogunlesi Biography, Net worth, Education, Airports and Private jets

Adebayo Ogunlesi Biography, Net worth, Education, Airports and Private jets



Adebayo Ogunlesi is a Nigerian-born lawyer, investment banker, and businessman who is currently the Chairman and Managing Partner of the investment firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). He was born on December 20, 1953, in Ogun State, Nigeria.

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Adebayo Ogunlesi Early life and education
Adebayo Ogunlesi Career.



Real name Adebayo “Bayo” O. Ogunlesi CON
Date of birth 20 December 1953
Country of Origin Federal Republic of Nigeria
Source of Wealth Banker, Entrepreneur
Net worth $1.1 billion
Adebayo Ogunlesi Early life and education

Adebayo Ogunlesi was born on December 20, 1953, in Nigeria. He grew up in a well-educated family with his father being a professor of medicine, and his mother being a civil servant. Ogunlesi attended King’s College in Lagos, Nigeria, for his secondary education. In 1973, Ogunlesi moved to the United States to attend the prestigious Oxford University in England, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in 1976.

He went on to attend Harvard Law School, where he obtained a J.D. in 1979. After completing his education, Ogunlesi worked as an attorney at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City. He later became a partner at the firm and specialized in corporate finance and securities law.

Adebayo Ogunlesi Career
Adebayo Ogunlesi - Chairperson of Global Infrastructure Partners

Ogunlesi began his career as an attorney at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. He later transitioned to investment banking, where he worked at First Boston (now Credit Suisse) and Goldman Sachs. In 2006, he founded Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets, such as airports, seaports, and energy projects. The firm has since grown to become one of the largest infrastructure investment firms in the world, with over $70 billion in assets under management.

Ogunlesi has served on various boards and committees, including as a member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs and as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under President Barack Obama. He has also been recognized for his business and philanthropic contributions, including being named one of the “100 Most Influential Africans” by New African magazine in 2012 and receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2017.

Adebayo Ogunlesi was a member of former US President Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, which was a group of business leaders who advised the President on economic issues. The forum was established in December 2016 and was disbanded in August 2017 following the controversy surrounding Trump’s response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ogunlesi was invited to join the forum due to his extensive experience in finance and investment. He is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading global infrastructure investment firm. Under Ogunlesi’s leadership, GIP has invested in a range of infrastructure assets, including airports, seaports, and renewable energy projects. During his time on the Strategic and Policy Forum, Ogunlesi provided input on a range of economic issues, including tax reform, trade policy, and infrastructure investment.


He was one of several business leaders who resigned from the forum following Trump’s controversial comments on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

The estimated net worth of Adebayo Ogunlesi
Adebayo Ogunlesi’s net worth was estimated to be approximately $1.1 billion according to Forbes. However, please note that his net worth may have changed since then due to various factors such as market fluctuations, changes in assets, and other financial factors.

Adebayo Ogunlesi’s private jet
In Nigeria, the name Adebayo Ogunlesi does not ring a bell like the Dangotes, Adenugas, Otedolas, etc.

However, the man’s achievements in the global business circle – especially in the aviation sector – have been well celebrated around the world.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is a Nigerian lawyer and investment banker. He is referred to – especially in Nigerian circles – as “the man who bought Gatwick Airport”. Some also refer to him as the Nigerian who owns three airports in the United Kingdom.

In 2009, GIP also acquired the majority share in London Gatwick Airport.

Gatwick Airport, also known as London Gatwick, is a major international airport near Crawley, Sussex, England. GIP invested £1.455 billion in the deal making it the majority shareholder in the airport.

GIP also owns Edinburgh Airport, which they bought in 2012.

Edinburgh Airport is an airport located in the Ingliston area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2019, handling over 14.7 million passengers. It was also the sixth-busiest airport in the United Kingdom by total passengers in 2019.

Ogunlesi has been married to British-born optometrist Dr. Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi since 1985. They have two children. In his song “Wonderful,” Burna Boy pays tribute to Adebayo, citing his hard work.
Source: Carmart Team BY CARMART TEAM October 24, 2023
Pix 1: Bayo Ogunlesi
Pix 2: Bayo-Ogunlesi and Yemi Osinbajo
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Raskimonojendor:
Great man.

Irony1:
Please with all due respect, you don't have any iota of shame. That money is in no way going to impact Nigeria whatsoever, the taxation on that acquisition will benefit the UK and not Nigeria, and most of all not even Yoruba land. Deinde Fernandez you are talking about didn't even impact yorubaland per se with his wealth moreso that he was buried abroad, Oga try and make something useful with your life and stop this praise singing.

TimeManager:
Ignorant kid, do you have an idea about Blackrock?. In simple terms, can a footballer say No to RealMadrid?

-kiss the truth!

Moneyyyy09:
We hope he didn't married igbo woman before our ronus brother go think sey nah the woman advice him to sell mugun people.

PHAYOL81:
his achievement is phenomenal and yet, HE'S SILENT. NO noise

Konquest:
Let me step in here.

That's Adebayo Ogunlesi in a picture below with Prince Dapo Abiodun, the Governor of Ogun State at the site of the Ogun State International Agro Cargo Airport. Both are Ijebu folks (Ijebus are indigenes of Ogun and Lagos States. Ijebuland straddles both sides of the Lagos and Ogun States land borders, with Epe, Ikorodu, Ibeju Lekki LGAs and Ajah being extensions of the larger Ijebuland). It is inconceivable that Bayo Ogunlesi doesn't have investments in Yorubaland like you incorrectly stated here in your attempt to criticize the OP. The Ijebus in the Diaspora and Nigeria have some of the savviest and riches folks among other Yoruba subgroups (such as the Ijesas, the Ondos, the Igbominas, etc) in Yorubaland's history from centuries back in, but they are frugal meaning they don't spend money on frivolities but on profitable businesses that bring in good returns on investment. The Forbes-rated Mike Adenuga, Folorunso Alakija, and Femi Otedola are classic examples of business-savvy Ijebu-Yoruba folks here.

Ambassador Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez too had investments back in Nigeria though he was a savvy international business man who operated globally especially with mining investments in Angola. He never made a noise about himself.

wman:
Adebayo Ogunlesi was in Nigeria last year and acted as a consultant for the Ogun Cargo airport.

Hotfreezing:
You claim Louis Ojukwu was the richest man at Independence. Did his wealth even reach his children?
It was seized in Lagos and remains here.
Your rants are ignored. Our thing is ours. Your thing also is ours.

lordm:
why are you bitter about him praising success. Na WA o.

Irony1:
Na wah oooo you guys don't have sense. Me bitter haba you can do better than this childish talk from you. There's no bitterness there, you guys are just doing praise singing for someone who has not even impacted your life, let alone acknowledge your existence.

Irony1:
Oga the issue is not about him making noise. Definitely he is making noise and blowing his trumpet just that you don't fit in the audience where he does that. What I don't subscribe to is unnecessary praise singing to someone who doesn't even know your existence in the first place.

Konquest:
You are clearly deflecting here! You clearly stated incorrectly in your post on page one of this thread that Deinde Fernandez and Adebayo Ogunlesi have NO investments that have impacted Nigeria or Yorubaland and that is why I CORRECTED you by stepping into your convo.

As a Diaporan myself with investment ties in Nigeria, I expected you to have just corrected the OP instead of seemingly trying to downplay the fact that these two savvy international businessmen you mentioned have not impacted on Nigeria. Period.

lordm:
because I don't know you doesn't mean I can't celebrate your success. Stop being bitter. Celebrate others so that when your time comes others will celebrate you

Irony1:
When did you hear me say anything about Louis Ojukwu? Try and have sense when you want to put an argument. Why doing praise singing for someone who doesn't even know you exist?

Irony1:
Oga no one is bitter. Yeah you can celebrate, but once again in life know when to stop. There is a difference between celebrating and stupid praise singing. O e is genuine and the other is just hypocrisy and eye service.

Irony1:
Yoruba men are not good in business. How many of them as against the total Yoruba population are good business managers? Why is it that the likes of Adenuga would rather employ Indians and other expats to manage his business if truly Yorubas are best managers? Oga stop talking like a dunce.

PHAYOL81:
his achievement is phenomenal and yet, HE'S SILENT. NO noise

Hotfreezing:
I used Ojukwu as an example but you're too stupid to understand.
Whatever we own is ours. Whatever you own is ours. We own you and everything you have.

Elemosho478:
You are the dunce here, you don't even know what you are saying.

Anybody with a ounce of brain know that Adenuga manages his business himself, there are also a lot of Yoruba heading various departments in his company.

If Yoruba men are not good in Business with so many successful Yoruba business men then Igbo men must be illiterates in business lol.


There are 3 Yoruba in Dangote Executive team not even a single Igbo apart from indians and other nationals.

Yoruba dominated Dangote executive team from Nigeria

https://www.dangotecement.com/executive-team/

Yoruba may not be good in business but we are certainly better than Igbo in business that always says Yoruba are not good in business even the current CEO of MTN is a Yoruba man and we also dominate the list of most established companies CEO in Nigeria, what about bank and Finance ? we also triumph.

lordm:
you are a terrible sadist

Realtruth2023:
I think you are the stupid one here trying to tell someone that he is stupid.

grandstar:
He is a founding partner. He therefore must have shares in the company.

Even a 10% stake should enable him attain the billionaire status.

Edit

The six founding members are majority shareholders of the company

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/blackrock-to-buy-global-infrastructure-partners-for-12-5-billion-22f8e3d9

Further edit

I feel some aren't pleased he is a Yoruba man.

It need not matter. Igbos are still the leader in terms of per capita income. Igbos are an industrious and entrepreneurial people,

Gentlesniper:
Great and inspiring, atleast to Government assistance or patronage except a conducive environment and laws for business. No CBN assistance in business transactions, just pure excellence.

Zico5:
Real omoluwabi. If we can dig very well, some Nigerians in diaspora are more richer than those we are parading up and down as being rich in this country. There are many silent billionaires in this country.