Uchenna Ogwo Esq. is the Founding and Principal Counsel of Brooks & Wells Legal as well as the Lead Advisor at Brooks & Wells Advisory. She is a seasoned commercial lawyer with over 24 years’ experience, providing professional advice to both Nigerian and cross-border clients principally on Business Establishment, International Joint Venture Transactions, Compliance, Corporate Restructuring, Refinancing, and Immigration.

She obtained an Executive MBA from the London School of Business and Economics and has cognate experience in the Legal aspects of Contracts Documentation, Intellectual Property Law, International Trade Law, Labour & Productivity Law as well as Immigration and Franchise Law. She has consulted for the United Nations (UNEP) as the National Legal Consultant on Environmental Law matters on the Assessment of the Environment and Public Health Impacts of Oil Contamination in Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Uchenna is an active member of the Nigerian Bar Association Lagos Branch where she has served two terms in the CLE (Continuing Legal Education) committee as well as other committees. She is an active member of FIDA (International Federation of Women Lawyers) where she is currently the Chairperson FIDA Nigeria Epe Branch in Lagos Nigeria, which covers Lekki Phase 1 to Epe jurisdiction and where she champions gender parity as well as gender mainstreaming.

She is a Chartered Mediator with the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) and also a Chartered Secretary and Administrator with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAN). She was admitted into the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria (SCGN) in 2025.

It is in recognition of her Sterling Accomplishments in Law and Legal Services in Nigeria that Uchenna Ogwo Esq. is deemed worthy to be conferred with the Woman of Merit Gold Award.