- TURNAROUND· TECHNOLOGY · PEOPLE
Strategic capital and turnaround leadership for complex situations.
Leasemart is a special-situations platform helping banks, institutional owners, and qualified investors recover and reposition distressed assets across Nigeria, West Africa, and the UK. We combine capital, restructuring expertise, and execution discipline to turn non-performing exposures into viable exits.
We provide institutions with practical, capital-backed alternatives to balance-sheet stress, beyond traditional AMCON transfers.
We typically work with:
- Banks and special assets units
- AMCON-type and public entities
- Institutional and strategic asset owners
- Qualified co-investors and syndicate partners
Leadership
- Dele Williams, Managing Partner – 25 years of corporate, commercial, and fundraising experience across the UK and Nigeria.
- WHO WE ARE
A capital-backed turnaround platform with restructuring DNA.
Leasemart provides banks and institutional asset owners with credible exit options and hands-on recovery capability. Operating through Bello Williams & Partners, our General Partner, we unite ex-bankers, restructuring lawyers, risk specialists, and distressed-asset investors with more than 100 years of combined experience across corporate recovery, portfolio clean-up, and special-situations investing.
Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association of Nigeria and a recognised restructuring practitioner known for leading high-impact recoveries and policy-sensitive mandates.
- HOW WE WORK
A three-phase value-recovery model
backed by deployable capital
Every mandate follows a proven cycle — diagnose, stabilise,
rebuild — anchored by investor discipline and local execution.
Every mandate follows a proven cycle — diagnose, stabilise, rebuild — anchored by investor discipline and local execution.
Diagnose – See the situation clearly.
Rapid portfolio and credit assessment, valuation triage, and stakeholder mapping to identify viable recovery paths.
Stabilise – Protect core value.
Liquidity support, governance resets, and operational triage to arrest decline and restore transparency.
Rebuild – Realise value or exit.
Execution of restructuring plan, technology-enabled monitoring, and structured sale, refinance, or long-term hold.
- TYPICAL MANDATE PROFILE
Ticket Size
₦3 billion – ₦25 billion (mid-market range)
Counterparties
Banks, AMCON, institutional owners, DFIs, strategic co-investors
Time Horizon
3–6 months stabilisation · 12–36 months full turnaround or exit
Structures
Direct acquisition · Joint recovery · Structured workout · Managed divestment
Geography
Nigeria & West Africa · UK/Cross Border-linked holdings
- Where we are most effective.
MANDATES WE TAKE ON
We focus on situations where timing, discretion, and capital discipline determine success.
Distressed Asset Acquisitions, Workouts & Divestments
We operate as a capital-backed restructuring platform, partnering with banks, AMCON-type entities, and institutional owners to acquire, restructure, reposition, or divest non-core and underperforming portfolios. Our approach blends investor discipline with turnaround capability — offering institutions a credible exit path and stakeholders a structured route to recovery.
Corporate Turnaround & Value Recovery
We deploy both capital and operational expertise to stabilise companies under stress, restore liquidity, and preserve enterprise value ahead of refinancing or sale. Working alongside lenders and owners, we provide hands-on management, governance resets, and the oversight required for sustainable rebound.
Strategic Advisory for Distressed Portfolio Owners
For banks, institutional investors, and public agencies managing large NPL exposures, we offer transaction-driven restructuring advisory — segmentation, valuation, and exit execution. Our focus is not reports but actionable transactions — structured disposals, carve-outs, or joint-recovery arrangements that release capital.
Co-Investment & Qualified Partner Opportunities
Through the Leasemart Capital Partners Syndicate, we invite qualified investors and family offices to participate in verified distressed and special-situations deals. Each transaction is vetted for legal integrity, recovery potential, and measurable impact, with Leasemart providing on-ground restructuring oversight to safeguard partner capital.
- TRACK RECORD
Experience across banks, public institutions, and private capital.
Members of Bello Williams & Partners have participated in or advised on recovery programmes involving"
Commercial Real-Estate Portfolio (Nigeria)
Situation:
Non-performing commercial asset portfolio constraining regulatory ratios and capital deployment.
Intervention:
Structured acquisition and recovery strategy enabling portfolio clean-up and improved transparency.
Outcome:
Balance-sheet relief for the lender and improved pathway to eventual portfolio exit.
Industrial Manufacturing Business (UK-Linked)
Situation:
Liquidity stress, governance conflict, and lender fatigue in a multi-jurisdictional business.
Intervention:
Liquidity stabilisation, governance reset, and structured turnaround programme.
Outcome:
Stabilised operations and investor re-entry within 18 months.
Further references available to qualified counterparties under confidentiality.
- INSIGHTS
The Leasemart Turnaround Briefing.
Periodic intelligence on distressed-asset and special-situations markets in Africa and the UK.
Receive focused insights — no noise, no mass marketing — on emerging restructuring themes, transaction pricing, and regulatory shifts.
Join the Leasemart Turnaround Briefing by subscribing via your preferred contact channel or through our institutional contact form.
- CONFIDENTIAL CONTACT
Discuss a situation in confidence.
We maintain a low public profile and strict confidentiality. If you are managing a distressed portfolio or seeking an aligned buyer, contact us discreetly.
Nigeria Office
Plot 167 Carlcon Street, Abuja, Nigeria
UK Office
12–14 Hartfield Road, London SW19 3TA