Attorney Michael Uwaechie was called to the Nigerian bar in 2007 and to the New York (USA) Bar in 2011. He is a Partner at Ivy Crest Solicitors, where he leads the firm’s corporate and commercial law practice. He is also a consultant at Weircapacity Limited, where he is the firm’s lead trainer in sustainable development-related efforts, especially through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). He has advised on various PPP projects Africa having been accredited by the APMG, U.K to provide capacity building for the World Bank Certified PPP initiative. His research experiences cut across project finance, international trade & investments as well as infrastructure developments in Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. In 2010, he was an adjunct faculty at Fordham University School of Law, New York where he developed and lectured a course on PPP in Anglo-Africa; a course which examined how PPP governance and financing mechanisms in Anglo-Africa compare with global best practices.
Until 2014, Michael worked with the United Nations General Assembly Economic & Finance Committee in New York, advising on macro-economic policy questions; banking reforms, international trade, international finance and sustainable development issues within the Africa group and the G-77 and China. He equally served as Sherpa’s advisor on the UN Secretary-General’s Global Sustainability Panel. Subsequently, he served as expert-level coordinator of the United Nations Security Council working group on peace keeping operations.
Between 2007 and 2010, Michael worked with a number of Law Firms advising on arrange of commercial transactions, turnkey infrastructure contracts, infrastructure project legal due diligence, corporate and project finance transaction, corporate governance assessment and Public Private Partnership projects. He earlier studied at the Institute of Public-Private Partnerships in Washington, DC where he obtained a certificate in the design of the legal, institutional and regulatory frameworks for successful PPPs and also has a certificate in Mastering PPPs from the Lagos Business School, Nigeria.
Michael has completed a course in Corporate Governance from Harvard University, Massachusetts. He has a Master’s degree in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law from Fordham University Law School, New York, and obtained his LL. B from Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria.