Facilitators
Course Director
Roland Igbinoba
Roland has garnered over 14 years experience in the financial services industry in Nigeria having worked with United Bank of Africa Plc, Oceanic Bank of Nigeria and National Bank of Nigeria. He is also a consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Bank on Building permits and licenses, and Commercial Real Estate.
Roland is currently the President/CEO of PISON HOUSING COMPANY. Pison Housing Company is a commercial real estate and housing finance advisory firm with considerable deal making muscle providing customized services to individuals, corporate, and multinational companies. He is also a consultant with the World Bank Group on the Investment Climate Program (ICP) & Mortgage Pilot Project of Lagos State.
Roland has led a multidisciplinary team of real estate professionals to secure US$100 Million of syndicated loans / club deal for about 2000 units of housing in Nigeria. Currently he is leading a multidisciplinary team on a total portfolio of US$400 Million real estate financing for three joint venture developments in Nigeria. Roland is also leading a team of consultants through a special purpose vehicle in a strategic partnership with a renowned international financial asset management company for a US$500 Million REITs Fund to be listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Also, Roland is on the team of financial advisors structuring a US$ 250 Million debt capital for a client from his offshore parties who has committed to real estate investment in Nigeria for the next 5 years.
He is also currently a member of the technical committee (mortgage Sector) of the Financial System Strategy 2020 (FSS 2020), the Federal Government of Nigeria financial schemes reform driven by the Central Bank of Nigeria. With housing finance study internships in Mexico, India, Thailand, South Africa, Europe, Canada & America, Roland’s interest and zeal in developing the Nigerian real estate and housing finance sector burns.
Roland is also the Executive Vice Chair of the Roland Igbinoba Real Foundation for Housing and Urban Development. The Foundation is a corporate social responsibility effort and a non-governmental initiative aimed at providing information and analytics to the housing market in Nigeria. The Foundation is strictly set up as an institution for capital, advocacy and policy making towards the development of the Nigerian housing market and ultimately the provision of affordable housing to the citizenry. The Foundation has successfully published “The State of the Lagos Housing Market” which is a first of its kind.
Roland is an Alumnus of Harvard University Graduate School of Design with a concentration in Real Estate Development & Finance.
Osaro Eghobamien, SAN
Osaro is a Founding and the Managing Partner of Perchstone & Graeys; he currently leads its Dispute Resolution Group. In recognition of his diligence, passion and contribution to the Legal practice, Mr Eghobamien, SAN was conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2008. He was admitted to practice in England and Wales in 1989 and later admitted to practice in Nigeria in 1991.
Osaro is currently responsible for the development of banking and structured finance in the firm, deriving from his extensive experience in general litigation with particular bias for commercial banking litigation. In his quest for broad financial knowledge, he has attended a number of finance-related courses prominent of which is the ‘finance for lawyers’ organised by the Lagos Business School (LBS) in 2007. He also successfully completed a course in ‘international securitization’ organised by the Real Exchange, Nairobi, Kenya in 2007.
A notable speaker, Osaro regularly makes presentation to select audiences on Securitisation, Financial Derivatives and the Capital Market. He was a member of the Lagos State Trust Law Reform Committee and is currently a member of the Mortgage Implementation Committee of the Financial System Strategy (FSS 20/20).
Osaro spends most of his time advising commercial clients on contentious legal issues. He regularly represents the interests of clients in our regular courts, from the High Court all the way to the Supreme Court, and is primarily responsible for handling arbitral proceedings, particularly in respect of oil and gas and finance maters.
Jacques Raîche
Mr. Raîche has over thirty five years of experience within financial institutions. In the past nine years on the international level, he has developed an expertise in the housing and real estate financing sectors under all its related aspects. Also, he has been involved in the financing of industries related to the real estate market. As important, he has been a leader in the expansion of a mortgage guaranteed fund in Mali as well as the conceptualisation of a refinancing structure to develop a secondary market for mortgages enabling the market to seek long-term resources to respond to the housing demand.
More recently, he has been involved in implementing an International Finance Corporation (IFC) program to structure and standardize a mortgage sector in Ghana. After one year, the market has evolved from one mortgage lending institutions to five within the program and two more companies have implemented mortgage department.
His field and experience in mortgage and housing include: unique expertise in the risks valuation, financial analysis and business expansion.
Jacques has also visited several countries for business including Mali, Burundi, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Togo, Niger, Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Guinea (Conakry), Algeria, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Mexico.
His publications includes “Affordability issues through the mortgage system” – presentation made to the General Assembly of Shelter Afrique at Yaoundé, Cameroun, June 2003 and “Strategies and actions of PAFHAM to implement a housing strategy to respond to the women’s group and low-income families needs presented to the Mali Government” in May 2004.
Today, he is acting as a mortgage consultant for a primary mortgage institution in Nigeria named Abbey Building Society Plc to structure and implement a complete rejuvenation.