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Top 17 Investment banks based in Nigeria
This directory lists 59 investment banks based in Nigeria and includes 1,437 contacts with 420 email addresses. The list was last updated in September 2026; Lagos is the single most-represented city among the companies listed.
Investment banks advise companies, governments, and other institutions on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, securities underwriting, and related financial transactions. This list covers companies that provide investment banking services, including corporate finance advice, securities underwriting, mergers and acquisitions advice, or related transaction services. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 17 largest investment banks based in Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to the investment banking and asset management businesses of FBN Holdings Plc, one of the strongest and most dependable financial groups in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CardinalStone is a full-service investment banking and multi-asset management firm with a vision to build a world-class investment banking firm of African origin; operating out of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parthian Partners Limited is a financial services group with deep expertise in fixed income, structured finance, equity markets, and M&A advisory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Providing Innovative Services That Fit With Our Customers' Goals & Aspiration We are an innovative, trusted partner in the provision of cutting-edge investment banking services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mainstreet Capital Limited (MCL) is a leading investment banking firm focused on providing financial advisory, capital raising and investment management services for private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AVA Group is an Investment Banking, Asset Management, Securities Trading, and Trusteeship house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fritova is a strategic and transaction advisory firm with strong expertise in corporate finance, strategic advisory, and project finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established on October 24, 1989, as Fidelity Union Securities Limited, FSL CAPITAL Limited has evolved through strategic transformations, reflecting our commitment to excellence…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The SFS Group currently consists of two companies, SFS Financial Services Limited and SFS Capital Nigeria Limited.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Boston Advisory Limited (“Boston”) is a boutique investment banking firm incorporated in 2010 as an independent non-bank financial services institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Greenwich Trustees Limited, a member of the Greenwich Trust Group; one of Nigeria’s leading independent Investment Banking firm, commenced operations in year as Afribank Trustees…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a one-stop financial services firm with capabilities in investment banking, securities dealing and insurance brokerage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Optimum Global is a new generation investment bank that offers Asset Management, Capital Market & Transaction services to businesses and individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Finance House | Investment Banking | Asset Management | Registrar Services | Securities Trading” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an emerging investment banking franchise out of Africa poised at creating wealth and delivering immense value for our diverse clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Iroko Capital is a full service financial advisory and investment firm duly registered and regulated by the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Nigerian Stock Exchange to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: investment banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names investment banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of investment banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name investment banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
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Investment banks based in Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 59 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among investment banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “investment banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names investment banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among investment banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 420 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
How many investment banks are based in Nigeria?
59 investment banks are listed for Nigeria.
Which city has the most investment banks based in Nigeria?
Lagos is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list.
How can I find contacts at investment banks based in Nigeria?
The directory includes 1,437 contacts and 420 email addresses for investment banks based in Nigeria.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.