Ummahani Ahmad Amin

Ummahani Ahmad Amin is a distinguished Nigerian legal practitioner with over two decades of experience in corporate law, Islamic finance, capital markets, infrastructure finance and regulatory advisory. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Metropolitan Law Firm, where she advises governments, financial institutions, development finance institutions and corporates on complex financing transactions and regulatory matters.

A pioneer in Nigeria’s Islamic finance industry, she has advised on sovereign and corporate Sukuk issuances, bond programmes and infrastructure financing transactions worth hundreds of billions of naira. Her work spans Islamic banking, capital markets, project finance, private wealth structuring and Shariah-compliant financial regulation. She has also contributed to the development of Islamic finance frameworks in West Africa, including regulatory advisory work supporting the Bank of Ghana.

She is the Founder of Al Ameen Trustees Limited, Nigeria’s first Shariah-compliant trustee company registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Founder and Chairman of the African International Conference on Islamic Finance, established in 2013 to advance policy dialogue, innovation and industry collaboration across Africa. She also serves as Chairman of The Metropolitan Skills Limited, a consultancy focused on capacity building, governance and capital market development.

She is the Founder and Trustee of Metwaqf and a Trustee of the Capital Market Solicitors Association of Nigeria. She is also a mentor for WIMBIZ.

Ummahani serves on the boards of Nigerian Exchange Limited, One17 Capital and Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited. She is also Chairman of the North-East Zone Tax Appeal Tribunal and a Part-time Member of the Investment and Securities Tribunal, Nigeria. She previously served on the board of Salam Takaful Insurance Nigeria.

Through her legal practice, board leadership and industry initiatives, she continues to advance financial inclusion, institutional development and innovative financing solutions across Nigeria and Africa.