- CEO
- Mobolaji Oludamilola Balogun
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment managers
- Address
- Lagos Nigeria
- Business
- Chapel Hill Denham Management Limited is a Nigerian asset management and investment management firm that serves as the fund management subsidiary of Chapel Hill Denham Group and acts as the fund manager for institutional vehicles including the Nigeria Real Estate Investment Trust (NGX: NREIT). Tracing its foundational origins to 1994 through Denham Management Limited and formally consolidated under the Chapel Hill Denham Group structure in 2008, the company is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, and conducts investment operations focused primarily on the Nigerian and Sub-Saharan African capital markets. The firm offers an extensive suite of asset management, structured investment, and wealth management solutions to pension fund administrators, sovereign institutions, insurance companies, commercial corporations, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and retail investors; its core products and services include closed-ended real estate investment funds, notably the Shariah-compliant Chapel Hill Denham Nigeria Real Estate Investment Trust (NREIT) which invests in grade-A commercial, industrial, logistics, and prime corporate residential properties; dedicated infrastructure debt and equity financing vehicles, most prominently the Nigeria Infrastructure Debt Fund (NIDF) targeting power generation, renewable energy, transportation, and telecommunications infrastructure; registered open-ended mutual funds and collective investment schemes comprising money market funds, fixed-income funds, balanced funds, and equity funds; institutional portfolio management services providing discretionary and non-discretionary mandate execution, treasury asset management, and liability matching; alternative investment strategies across healthcare assets, student housing, education infrastructure, and venture capital; small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) impact funds, including gender-lens financing initiatives such as SME.NG; and private wealth preservation services alongside digital retail distribution through the InvestNaija platform. In recent developments, Chapel Hill Denham Management Limited has executed significant expansion across its alternative asset platforms, highlighted by major real estate acquisitions under NREIT totaling 135 billion Nigerian naira, consisting of a 124 billion naira corporate residential estate in Maitama, Abuja, and an 11 billion naira industrial warehouse property in the Lagos Free Zone. The firm has concurrently advanced sequential series offerings under NREITs 400 billion naira shelf issuance programme on the Nigerian Exchange, expanded local-currency debt financing tranches under the Nigeria Infrastructure Debt Fund to back regional clean energy and industrial utility projects, and secured new institutional fiduciary mandates, including its appointment as fund manager for host community development trusts established under the Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act.