Emmanuel U. Obi To Speak At The US-Africa Business Matchmaking Conference

USPA NEWS - The 2015 US-Africa Business Matchmaking Conference will bring together business leaders from Africa and the United States that will meet to discuss existing and potential opportunities in both markets. The event will convened from 19 November ““ 21 November, 2015 in Austin-Texas.

Emmanuel U. Obi will be one of the panelist for this year conference. Emmanuel has been a licensed and practicing as an attorney since May 2007. Upon graduation, he started practice at the Dallas office of international powerhouse Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, as a corporate associate. There, his practice focused on complex mergers and acquisitions, and a variety of other sophisticated corporate transactions. After several years with Weil, and seeking an opportunity to make a greater community impact with his professional career, Emmanuel moved to Norton Rose Fulbright, where he leveraged his transactional expertise as a public finance attorney representing cities, municipalities, and other public entities in a variety of public financing matters.

In May of 2015, Emmanuel stepped out on faith and followed his lifelong dream of starting his own practice“”The Obi Law Firm, PLLC“”a boutique minority-owned transactional firm specializing in providing top-notch yet affordable legal services to entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations and other legal clients, including those in the public finance arena.

Emmanuel graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University´s Dedman School of Law. Emmanuel graduated in the top 2% of his law school class and upon graduation was admitted to the prestigious Order of the Coif. Prior to that, he earned his B.B.A. in finance from SMU´s Cox School of Business, cum laude.

Emmanuel recently completed a book project entitled Born to Fly“”Reflections on Faith, Social Justice & Love. His dream is to use the proceeds from book sales to fund the creation of the Born to Fly Leadership Academy“”a program focusing on providing academic, professional, and life mentoring to minority school children, especially young African-American men.