Ummahani Ahmad Amin

MANAGING PARTNER

Ummahani Ahmad Amin

Ummahani is the founder and Managing Partner of the Metropolitan Law Firm. Since obtaining her qualifying certificate to practice law in Nigeria in 2003, she has served in both the public and private sector, including her appointment as the Senior Special Assistant (Technical) to the Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry in 2009. In 2020, she was appointed as the Senior Financial Flows Consultant for the LINKS Programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) UK. Also, she sits on the Board of the Nigerian Exchange Limited, Radix Pension Managers, One17 Capital Limited and Salam Takaful Insurance Limited and is a trustee of The Metropolitan Waqf, an Islamic endowment fund she founded to promote and provide formal education in Northern Nigeria.

Practice Areas

• Corporate services
• Islamic Finance Personal Law
• Capital Market & Finance

Education

• Institute of Public Private Partnership (Washington DC, US)
• Bayero University, Kano (LLB)
• Nigerian Law School (BL)
• Bayero University, Kano (LLM)

Professional Memberships

• Nigerian Bar Association
• Institute of Directors
• Society for Corporate Governance
• Non-Interest Financial Institutions Association of Nigeria (NIFIAN)
• Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers

Office Branch

• Abuja
• Lagos
11, Zangon Daura Estate, Kado District, Abuja, Nigeria. consult@metlawfirm.com +234 909 553 3128