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Adebayo Ogunlesi Adebayo
Ogunlesi (born 1953) is a Nigerian businessman. A
1979 graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business
School, he also studied at Oxford.
Ogunlesi
was in charge of Global Investment Banking at Credit
Suisse First Boston before being promoted
to chief client officer and executive vice chairman.
Adebayo
Ogunlesi is currently Chairman and Managing Partner
of Global Infrastructure Partners, a $5.64 billion
joint venture formed by Credit Suisse and General Electric.
Prior to his current role, he was Executive Vice Chairman
and Chief Client Officer of Credit Suisse, based in
New York. He previously served as a member of Credit
Suisse’s Executive Board and Management Council
and chaired the Chairman’s Board. Previously,
he was the Global Head of Investment Banking at Credit
Suisse. Since joining Credit Suisse in 1983, Mr. Ogunlesi
has advised clients on strategic transactions and financings
in a broad range of industries and has worked on transactions
in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe,
the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Prior
to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Ogunlesi was an attorney
in the corporate
practice group of
the New York
law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 1980-81
he served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood
Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.
Mr.
Ogunlesi attended the prestigious Kings College Lagos,
Nigeria after which he received his B.A. with
first class honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics,
from Oxford University, his J.D. magna cum laude, from
Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business
School. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar
Association. He was a lecturer at Harvard Law School
and the Yale School of Organization and Management, where
he taught a course on transnational investment projects
in emerging countries.
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TIME
magazine "Based
in New York City and traveling to emerging markets,
he built CSFB's project-finance
business into the world's
best, in part by encouraging corporations and governments
to tap public debt markets in addition to commercial
lenders. That strategy allowed the debtors to borrow
for longer periods and reduce their short-term costs.
When Ogunlesi's project-finance group absorbed several
other divisions, a colleague produced T shirts that read, "I've
Found Happiness in the Bayosphere.""
Source:
Wikipedia (2010), Time (2002)
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