Personal bio
Ngo-Martins is a partner in Nigeria’s leading law firm Aluko & Oyebode, a skilled litigator and arbitration lawyer with expertise in construction law; oil & gas; intellectual property; and shipping and aviation law. He currently oversees the Firm’s construction and engineering practice. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings conducted under the UNCITRAL and ICC Rules governed by a variety of substantive laws and seated in jurisdictions such as Nigeria, London, Zurich and Miami, Florida. He has advised and represented clients in enforcing and recognising arbitral awards before Nigerian courts. Additionally, Ngo-Martins has experience advising on construction and engineering contracts including FIDIC, NEC, JCT and bespoke funder’s led EPC, EPCM contracts in a variety of sectors, including oil & gas, power and general infrastructure. Importantly, he has acquired significant experience advising and representing clients in leading and complex intellectual property, shipping and aviation disputes in Nigeria over the years. The disputes involve trademark infringement and nullification claims; copyright infringement and design claims; air passenger claims and enforcement of aircraft security. Ngo-Martins is active in several professional organisations and involved in wider efforts toward the development of construction law and arbitration in Africa, being the founder and executive director of Africa Construction Law initiative, a pan-African initiative set up to promote construction law within Africa; and a founding member and director of Africa Arbitration Academy, an initiative established to improve expertise and training of arbitration practitioners across Africa.