Customs Street Advisors is a full service investor relations firm offering a rich menu of services to support our clients’ capital markets, corporate finance and corporate governance relationships. We work closely with companies preparing to list or already quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

As the local stock market has grown in recent years, with the attendant fierce competition for capital, the challenges of communication and engagement about value management initiatives by public companies have also risen to the top of the agenda.

Our team of professionals, supported by the state-of-the-art technology, is ably qualified to help companies succeed in this daunting new world.

We provide our clients with the channels, platforms and tools they need to successfully engage the investors and intermediaries on the issues all parties consider important.

Through our services, companies provide these vital stakeholders with clear access routes for feed-exchanges which fosters constructive dialogue. Ultimately, this results in consensual decisions on how shareholder wealth should be created.

We offer financial markets support and ancillary services to securities issuers on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in their various interactions with the investment community, which generally include:

• Offers to sell securities
• Communication of the performance of the assets underlying those securities
• Solicitation of support for the sale and purchase other assets; and
• Invitations to affirm decisions on how those assets should be managed.

Through ValueClear we also provide access to relevant and credible corporate and market data, multi-way communications channels among companies, intermediaries and investors as well as comprehensive tools for optimal participation in the capital markets.

Leadership Team

Obi Onyeaso, Managing Director

Obi is a seasoned investor relations professional and financial communications specialist.

In August 2007, he founded Customs Street Advisors with a vision to provide comprehensive investor relations and specialist communications services to companies whose shares are listed or who are in the exciting process of preparing to go public.

Prior to founding Customs Street Advisors, Obi was the head of investor relations at a mid-cap conglomerate listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In this position, he set up the first dedicated investor relations function of a public company in Nigeria and co-ordinated all investor engagement activities during the company’s private placement and initial public offering.

Obi holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His professional affiliations and memberships include the US National Investor Relations Institute, UK Investor Relations Society, International Association of Business Communications, Financial Communications Society and Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Obi is one of Nigeria’s leading commentators on investor relations, shareholder matters, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. He writes the widely read Street Talking column on how public companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange engage their stakeholders in NEXT, one of Nigeria’s most popular newspapers. In addition, he is a regular contributor to Alrroya, the premier business daily in Dubai.

At Customs Street Advisors, Obi leads client relations, initiation of strategic partnerships and business development. He also leads the development and innovation team for Valueclear.com, the financial markets portal.