Ucheora Onwuamaegbu

Uche is a consulting attorney in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice at Arent Fox Schiff. Uche regularly provides advisory services and acts as arbitrator in international disputes.

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.

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.