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Goodwin Offices

1900 N Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20036
United States
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Folake Ayoola

Position
Partner
Career
Folake Ayoola is a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets and Public Company Advisory practices. She advises companies, board of directors, underwriters, investment funds, and financial sponsors on securities regulatory matters, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance. With over a decade’s experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance, Folake has specialized experience in SEC regulatory and compliance matters, including those related to SEC reporting and compliance requirements, public and exempt securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, going-private transactions, ESG matters, and NYSE and Nasdaq compliance issues.
Folake is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York and Texas.
Education
JD
Columbia Law School
LLM, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Achievement in International & Comparative Law Award, Articles Submission Editor, Journal of Transnational Law
Columbia Law School
LLB, Vice President, Law Society
University College London, University of London
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation