Efuntomi Akpeneye

Group Chief Legal Officer, Oando PLC 

GM, Legal, OERNL 

Efuntomi Akpeneye is the Group Chief Legal Officer of Oando PLC and has been appointed the General Manager (GM), Legal at Oando Energy Resources Nigeria Limited. 

She has over 20 years of professional experience in energy, mining, M&A, financing, corporate/commercial transactions, and dispute resolution matters. Tomi began her career at Banwo & Ighodalo, where she gained invaluable experience from various landmark transactions. 

Since joining Oando PLC, she has been instrumental in Oando’s major transactions including significant acquisitions of oil & gas and mining assets, cross-border and local M&A and multimillion-dollar financing transactions. In her Chief Legal Officer role, she heads the Group’s legal services department and oversees the legal aspects of the Group’s transactions. 

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB Hons.) from the University of Kent, UK, an LLM in Petroleum Law and Policy from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland, and a Barrister-at-Law (B.L.) from the Nigerian Law School. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Innovation and Design Thinking from Emeritus Institute of Management (in collaboration with MIT, Columbia Business School, and Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth).

She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria.