Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*
Uche is a consulting attorney in the firm’s International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice.

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Uche regularly provides advisory services and acts as arbitrator in international disputes.
*Admitted as Special Legal Consultant in the District of Columbia. Admitted in the United Kingdom and Nigeria.
Previous Work
For more than a decade, Uche was Senior Counsel at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), in Washington, DC. He was involved, as Secretary or Team Leader, in over 70 cases in various economic sectors, including oil, gas, and mining, construction, agriculture, finance, and tourism; and was a core member of the 2016 ICSID Rules amendment team. Prior to ICSID, he was a lawyer at the United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, working on various types of cases, including a consolidated claim of over 800,000 migrant workers for lost remittances; as well as claims by airlines and shipping companies, banks and insurance companies. He was in domestic law practice in the UK and in Nigeria before that.
Professional Activities
Uche’s current practice focuses on international investment arbitration, commercial disputes, and advisory services. He has served as presiding-, sole-, and co-arbitrator in disputes before ICSID, the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the American Arbitration Association, New York, and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre. He advises the State of Kuwait’s multi-billion dollar National Focal Point for Environmental Projects. A member of the Board of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, Uche is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of various arbitration institutions around the world.
Publications, Presentations & Recognitions
Uche has written and spoken extensively on disputes between governments and foreign investors around the world. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
Recent Publications
- “Stay of Enforcement of Awards under the ICSID Convention – Trends and Issues,” Arbitration International, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2023
- “A managed dispute-resolution insurance scheme for countries in investor-state arbitration: Ensuring early legal representation of respondents,” Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, March 2022
- “Blockchain, Smart Contracts and International Arbitration,” International Commercial Arbitration Practice: 21st Century Perspectives, 2nd. Ed., Lexis Nexis, December 2021 Accordion Toggle
Recent Presentations
- Presenter: The Research Handbook on International Claims Commissions, American Society of International Law Conference, January 29, 2025.
- Presenter: The Future of Investment Arbitration in the Middle East, Kuwait Business Law Conference, December 9, 2024.
- Presenter: By Peaceful Means: International Adjudication and Arbitration, King’s College London, November 21, 2024. Accordion Toggle
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Education
University of Nigeria, 1986Nigeria Law School, 1987College of Law, London, 1994King’s College London, 2019