Theresa Chikwendu is the senior manager and head of department, Corporate Transactions at MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, where she helps the company structure and negotiate its most complex commercial transactions ranging from financing, mergers & acquisitions, and project finance transactions. She provides strategic leadership to the business on legal and business issues ranging from corporate transactions, general commercial transactions, stakeholder management, project management, and related matters.

She holds an LL.M Degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Theresa’s hobbies include reading, travelling, and she is a big advocate of mentorship. She runs a weekly LinkedIn column known as “Diary of an Inhouse Legal Counsel” where she is building a global community for in-house lawyers focused on becoming better strategic business advisors. She also has a collaboration with the African Corporate & Government Counsel Forum on a column titled – Legal Insights with Theresa Chikwendu, A monthly Digest for In-House Counsel.

She is the visionary and convener of the #YoungerMe Nuggets Series, an initiative committed to empowering the next generation of young legal professionals and law students from underrepresented schools/backgrounds with the tools they need for career success globally.  She served on the 2023 Annual Meeting Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel. She is also on the leadership of the International Legal Affairs, and Small Law Department Networks of the Association of Corporate Counsel. 

You can learn more about her here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nkeonyeasua-theresa-chikwendu/