Elizabeth Uwaifo

Elizabeth Uwaifo is an English qualified lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in various major City of London law firms advising on a wide variety of bilateral and syndicated loan agreements, debt and equity capital markets transactions; derivatives and other hedging agreements, and other corporate and commercial transactions and finance arrangements.

She is recognised in the London market as an expert in derivatives and has coauthored a book titled “Practical Derivatives” published by Globe Publishing. She has also been recognised by the IFLR 1000 as an ‘EMEA Leading Lawyer’ within ‘UK Capital Markets’ (2014 Edition) and Chambers UK as a ‘Leading Individual’ within ‘Capital Markets: Securitisation’ and ‘Capital Markets: Structured Finance & Derivatives’ (2013 Edition).

Elizabeth is passionate about facilitating finance transactions between European and African entities. She recently completed a study looking at initiatives to deepen the Nigerian capital markets and has written several thought-leadership articles on financing infrastructure development in Nigeria and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

Elizabeth graduated with a first class degree in law from University College London and a BCL from Merton College, Oxford University. She qualified as a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1989 and re-qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1992.

She is the owner and Managing Partner at Radix Legal & Consulting Limited and was previously a senior Partner at leading international law firm Sidley Austin LLP and Fasken Martineau LLP and a Director at UBS Limited.

She is a Co-Chair of the Legal and Compliance Peer Advisory Group for 100 Women in Hedge Funds in London.

Practice Areas

• Finance
• Derivatives
• Corporate Restructuring/Investment
• Regulatory