Our Vision is to be the most trusted financial services provider in Africa.
Our Mission is to empower our clients to maximize value and deepen the development of financial markets across Africa for the ultimate benefit of the investing public and the larger society by providing cutting-edge financial solutions.
We offer bespoke financial advisory services to small businesses, corporates, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Some of our services include: financial analysis and due diligence, business planning, financial modeling, independent valuation and transaction support.
We provide best-in-class learning solutions to strengthen the knowledge, skills and capacity of the workforce to ultimately boost productivity and value creation. Some of our training packages include: Microsoft Excel for business (Basic - Advanced), data analysis, financial modeling, budgeting, valuation, business intelligence and reporting.
We are reimagining the future to address key finance and transaction-related problems encountered by individuals and businesses through technology-enabled products and services.
Temitayo Adenmosun (Analyst)
Temitayo is inspired by unravelling problems through data driven solutions. She graduated with a degree in Accounting from University of Lagos and currently is student member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, United Kingdom.
She has worked at technology companies such as Jovago (Jumia travel) and Truppr as financial operations analyst and later as a Data Analyst before joining Guaranty Trust Bank in the Transaction services division. She currently works as a financial technology Analyst at Leonine Investment.
Temitayo has previously volunteered to teach English in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with Aiesec and also practices martial arts (Karate). She hopes to solve our society’s toughest problems using data intelligence.
Haneef Abbas(Co-Founder/CEO)
Haneef Abbas is the Chief Executive Officer of Leonine Investment Services Limited ("Leonine"). He co-founded Leonine with 2 partners in 2017 with the vision to build the most trusted financial services firm in Africa with a track record for maximizing value for clients and other stakeholders through the provision of best-in-class financial advisory, education and technology services. Haneef was named PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") Nigeria 'most hardworking staff' in 2015 and Access Bank's School of Banking excellence 'Best Graduating Student' in 2011.
Prior to co-founding Leonine in 2017, Haneef was the Head, Corporate Finance and business reporting at Asset and Resource Management Holding Company. He was responsible for advising the group executive management committee on valuation, capital raising, corporate restructuring and business intelligence. He is also an alumnus of PwC, Access Bank Plc. and FSDH Merchant Bank Limited (formerly First Securities Discount House).
Haneef serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dosis Goodwill Foundation, a charity organization, which he co-founded in 2016.
His core skills and expertise include: corporate finance, investment management, financial due diligence, financial modeling, business entity valuation, business intelligence and data analytics. He has advised clients in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and other sectors within and outside Nigeria.
Yinka Ojikutu (Co-founder/Vice principal)
Yinka Ojikutu is a co-founder and vice principal at Leonine. Prior to Leonine, he executed and advised on several transactions cutting across mergers and acquisitions, equity & debt Capital Advisory, business recovery and financial & commercial due diligence with PwC West Africa’s corporate finance team and later as an investment manager with a private wealth fund.
Yinka has extensive experience on the various aspects of the deal cycle and his core competencies cut across transaction strategy, structuring and execution. He is highly skilled in financial modeling, valuation of businesses and complex financial instruments and transaction due diligence.
Prior to his experience as a corporate finance and investment professional, Yinka advised several clients on general tax and transfer pricing matters as a member of the tax and regulatory services practice at PwC Nigeria.
Yinka serves as a volunteer with The Nigerian Child Initiative (TNCI). A non-profit focused on improving opportunities for Nigerian Children in the areas of Healthcare and Education in line with the Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the United Nations.
Amazing teacher. I really learnt a lot I enjoyed the classes. Microsoft Excel and Financial Modelling does not look so hard anymore.
He was very impactful overall. His delivery approach was helpfulstarting from basics and working up to more advanced functions/skills.
He is a very good teacher. He was able to translate very technical elements of excel into basic language for the benefits of the attendants - like it is second nature to him.
We are trustworthy and dependable.
We are passionate about meeting the needs of our clients and consistently strive for excellence in our work.
We are continuously driven by the desire to create wealth and maximize value for our clients and other stakeholders.
+234-818-778-5964
info@leonine.com.ng
34a Prince Kazeem Eletu, Lekki, Lagos
