Benjamin Ng'eno

Associate, London

+44 20 3880 1540

bngeno@lalive.law

Benjamin Ng'eno

Benjamin specialises in international commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration and public international law. He advises and represents clients in disputes across various sectors including international sale of goods, energy, construction and infrastructure projects. Benjamin has experience under various arbitral institutional rules, as well as in litigation proceedings in common law jurisdictions.

Recent publications

Arbitration in East Africa’s Renewable Energy Projects: Resolving Disputes in a Rapidly Evolving Sector
BERND EHLE, BENJAMIN NG’ENO
In: Victoria Nalule, Damilola S. Olawuyi (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Arbitration in the African Energy and Mining Sectors. Palgrave Studies in Energy Transitions, November 2025

AfCFTA: Legal Considerations and Implications on Africa’s Investment Practice with Third Countries
BENJAMIN NG’ENO, AHMED JELLE
In: J. Chaisse; J. Górski; E. Laryea; M.M. Mbengue; K.F. Olaoye; African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): 2021-2025 Special Issues Editorial, TDM 2 (2025)

East African Infrastructure Projects and Dispute Resolution
BERND EHLE, BAPTISTE RIGADEAU, BENJAMIN NG’ENO
In: International business Law Journal (IBLJ), 4/2021, pp. 469-487

Recent conferences

ICC YAAF - Preventing and resolving disputes: the in-house lawyer perspective
BENJAMIN NG'ENO, Role: Moderator, Preventing and resolving disputes: the in-house lawyer perspective
Nairobi, Kenya, 22 February 2024

ICC Institute of World Business Law - Advanced Training on Navigating Interim Measures in International Arbitration
BENJAMIN NG'ENO, Role: Speaker, Advanced Training on Navigating Interim Measures in International Arbitration
Lagos, Nigeria, 31 May 2023

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Current professional memberships

  • Member of Young ICCA
  • Member of The African Society of International Law

Career history

  • Associate, LALIVE, London, 2024 – present
  • Deputy Counsel, Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Common Law Team), Paris, 2021 – 2024
  • Trainee, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels, 2020 – 2020
  • International Trainee, LALIVE, Geneva, 2019 – 2020
  • Associate, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates, Nairobi, 2015 – 2018
  • Associate, Litigation, KTK Advocates, 2014 – 2015

Academic qualifications

  • LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2019
  • Bachelor of Laws, LL.B, University of Nairobi, 2011
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