Partner

Olufunke Olumide

Education
  • University of Liverpool: LL.M in International Business Law
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK (ACIArb)
  • Nigerian Law School: BL
  • University of Lagos: LL. B
  • Corporate Governance Advisory & Audit
  • Family Business Governance Advisory
  • Corporate Commercial & General Legal Advisory
  • Company Secretarial services
  • Legal Audit & Due Diligence
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Real Estate Advisory
  • Nigerian Bar Association
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK (ACIArb)
  • Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum

About Olufunke Olumide

Olufunke Olumide is the Founding-Partner at Acuity Partners LLP that leads the operational excellence and drives the business growth strategies of the organisation’s ecosyatem.

She is responsible for ensuring that strategy translates into structured execution across family office, legal advisory, private capital, compliance, and cross-border mandates. Her leadership is central to maintaining institutional rigor, service excellence, and long-term client trust.

Olufunke serves as a trusted advisor to African families and business owners, helping them design and implement governance structures that preserve wealth, manage complexity, and support continuity across generations. She plays a pivotal role in institutionalising family office structures, formalising governance systems, and ensuring that private wealth arrangements operate with clarity, discretion, and regulatory soundness.

She is deeply involved in advising families through sensitive transitions including generational shifts, business succession, asset consolidation, and cross-border structuring. She brings a rare combination of legal insight, governance expertise, and practical understanding of family dynamics to her advisory work.

She also advises on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and risk management for family-owned enterprises, ensuring that private wealth structures operate with institutional discipline and integrity.

In addition to advisory work, she leads client engagement standards, service protocols, and business development initiatives across the ecosystem. Her focus is not only on structuring wealth, but on structuring the institution itself, embedding discipline, responsiveness, and integrity into the firm’s operations.

Her advisory style is discreet, structured, and long-term oriented, reflecting the ethos of a modern family office built for African realities. Her leadership anchors Acuity’s philosophy of integrated stewardship: where legal, financial, governance, and family considerations are coordinated within a single trusted advisory relationship.