Kelechi Okparaocha

Practice Areas

Tax

International Corporate Tax

Indirect Tax

Mergers & Acquisition

Transfer Pricing

Career

- Provided comprehensive legal and tax consultancy service which comprised of advisory, compliance, and regulatory support services to a global aviation group with global operations and more than 300 subsidiaries.

- Led Nigerian corporate Compliance element in the $4,600,000,000.00 acquisition of an American cleaning and hygiene products company in the hospitality, healthcare, food and beverage, food service, retail, and facility management markets.

- Advised on the Nigerian Tax element of an N18Billion investment in a Nigerian Retail Company.

- Led the tax advisory on the internal restructuring of a global hospitality brand and the restructuring of a debt valued at a total of $6,000,000.00.

Professional Memberships

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)

Nigerian Bar Association – Section on Business Law (NBA – SBL) Taxation Committee

Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN)

International Bar Association (IBA)

Women in International Fiscal Association (Nigeria Chapter)

Society of Women in Taxation.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Nigeria

United Kingdom and Wales

Experience

Chairperson, Nigerian Bar Association, Section on Business Law Taxation Committee

Legal Adviser & Board Member, Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce

Head of Transfer Pricing Unit/Corporate and Commercial unit, WTS Adebiyi & Associates

Associate, Templars

Associate, Aelex

Languages Spoken

English, Igbo

Education