Zion Adeoye is a finance, taxation and corporate lawyer with over 17 years of international experience advising multinationals, financial institutions and sovereign parties across Africa and beyond. As Chief Legal Officer, he leads M20 Capital's legal strategy, regulatory engagement, corporate structuring and governance.
Zion is the founder, Group CEO and Managing Partner of Africarta Advisory Group, a pan-African legal, tax and business advisory firm with a multinational team of professionals across multiple jurisdictions. He previously led CLG (formerly Centurion Law Group), a publicly listed pan-African law firm, as CEO and Managing Partner. His practice spans project and corporate finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities, and international tax. He has structured and documented transactions ranging from trade and project-finance facilities to equity investments and strategic acquisitions across the continent.
He has advised on landmark fiscal and regulatory matters, including serving as Secretary to the Petroleum Industry Bill Fiscal Syndicate commissioned by Nigeria's House of Representatives, and advising the Board of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). He holds an LLM in Global Business Law from Columbia Law School (New York) and an MBA from the University of Dundee (Scotland), and is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
At M20 Capital, Zion ensures that the company's growth rests on a foundation of integrity, sound structure and regulatory compliance, from licensing and capital-markets readiness to governance and cross-border transactions.