He is a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell and the former Deputy Chief of the Financial Crimes and Public Corruption office at the Eastern District of Virginia.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
[citation needed] After college, he worked for the law firm O'Melveny & Myers, before joining the United States Attorney's office as deputy chief in the financial crimes and public corruption unit.
[2][3] Robert Mueller brought Asonye onto the Special Counsel investigation team.
[5] In 2021, he joined Davis Polk & Wardwell as a member of the firm's white collar team.