Okabonye has wide experience advising multinational and local entities throughout the value-chain and is one of a handful of lawyers in the Nigerian market with specialist expertise in three distinct legal practice areas (finance, technology and tax).
His significant finance experience covers project and corporate finance, capital market transactions, structured finance, fintech, foreign exchange and general financial advisory.
Okabonye has been deeply involved in technology advisory & compliance, having advised a significant number of international entities, such as Google, Amazon, Meta, YouTube, Apple, Uber, American Express, Mastercard, Western Union, VISA, the National Football League (NFL), McKinsey, Puma, DEG, Multigate, and many others. He has experiential depth in the areas of privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, data processing and cross border data transfers, payment processing, and e-commerce.
He also possesses years of tax experience, focusing on general tax advisory & structuring, and has advised foreign and local clients from a transactional level and a broader compliance perspective.