Olanrewaju Olumide

Olanrewaju Olumide is a founding partner of Acuity Partners, a private client services firm based in Lagos, Nigeria. Under his leadership, the firm has been named the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 “Private Clients Law Firm of the Year in Nigeria”.

A dedicated private client firm

Acuity Partners describes itself as Africa's private client services firm, advising individuals, families and business owners on the structuring, protection and multigenerational growth of their wealth. This private client focus distinguishes the firm from general commercial practices: its work is organised around the long-term needs of families and their assets rather than around one-off transactions. From its base at Edge Waters Estate in Lekki, Lagos, the firm serves a client base that extends well beyond Nigeria.

The firm's services span a comprehensive private wealth offering, including family office services (through The Legacy Haus), a private investment office (through Makler), tax and compliance, strategic advisory, immigration and global residency, and legal advisory. Its legal work includes estate planning and succession structures, trusts and governance, and cross-border wealth planning. Together, these services address the full range of issues a wealthy family or business owner encounters: how to hold and protect assets, how to plan for succession, how to manage tax and compliance obligations, and how to structure affairs across more than one country.

Private clients law in practice

Private clients law is a distinctive discipline that brings together several fields of law and advisory practice in the service of individuals and families. It combines estate and succession planning, the use of trusts and other governance structures, tax planning, and, increasingly, cross-border and residency considerations for internationally mobile families. Because private wealth frequently sits alongside a family business, effective private client advice must also address the ownership and governance of that business and its orderly transfer between generations.

Olanrewaju Olumide, as a founding partner, helps lead a firm built specifically to deliver this integrated service. The firm reports a very high level of client retention and that the great majority of its new clients come through referral, indicators that are consistent with the trust-based, long-term relationships that characterise successful private client practice.

Serving families across borders

Acuity Partners advises clients across multiple continents, reflecting the international dimension of modern private wealth. For Nigerian and African families with interests, family members or ambitions abroad, cross-border planning is essential: assets, residence and succession may all engage more than one legal system, and coordinating advice across these dimensions is central to protecting and preserving family wealth. The firm's combination of legal advisory, tax, family office, investment and global residency services is designed to meet exactly this need under one roof.

The Nigerian market

Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and home to a growing population of high-net-worth individuals, families and entrepreneurs. As private wealth in the country matures, demand grows for sophisticated advice on succession, estate planning, governance and cross-border structuring – areas that have historically been underserved by traditional commercial law practices. A dedicated private client firm that can integrate legal, tax and advisory services, and that understands both the Nigerian context and the international dimension of its clients' affairs, meets an important need in this market.

The family office model

Central to Acuity Partners' offering is the family office concept, delivered through The Legacy Haus and complemented by a private investment office. A family office coordinates the many strands of a wealthy family's affairs – legal, tax, investment, succession and governance – under a single, coherent strategy, so that decisions in one area are made with full regard to their effect on the others. For families whose wealth spans a business, personal assets and interests in more than one country, this integrated approach is far more effective than piecemeal advice. Olanrewaju Olumide's leadership of a firm built around this model, combining legal advisory with family office, tax and global residency services, positions Acuity Partners to serve Nigeria's growing community of families and business owners with sophisticated, long-term wealth planning.

The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 “Private Clients Law Firm of the Year in Nigeria” recognises Acuity Partners and founding partner Olanrewaju Olumide for the firm's specialist focus on private wealth, succession and cross-border planning for families and business owners.