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AKAKPO Martial

Full name: AKAKPO Martial
Nationality : Togolese

  • PhD in Law, University of Nice Sophia ANTIPOLIS
  • Attorney at law at the bar of Togo, managing partner of the law firm Martial Akakpo & Associés
  • Lecturer in various universities in Togo and France.
  • Mediator and Arbitrator
  • Arbitrator at the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA –OHADA)
  • Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague
  • Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris, France
  • Member of the French Arbitration Committee and of the French Arbitration Association
  • Member of the Court of Arbitration of Togo (CATO)
  • Member of the Arbitration Court of the Ivory Coast (CACI)
  • Arbitrator of the GICAM’s Arbitation Centre in Cameroon
  • Arbitrator at the Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation Centre of Ougadougou, Burkina Faso (CAMC-O)
Institutional arbitration 
  • Once as Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal and 4 times as counsel to a party in disputes submitted to the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris
  • Twice as chairman of the arbitral tribunal and once as co-arbitrator in disputes submitted to the CCJA
  • Once as sole arbitrator in a dispute submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
  • Twice as chairman of the arbitral tribunal, once as sole arbitrator, 5 times as co-arbitrator and twice as counsel for a party to the disputes submitted to the Court of Arbitration of Togo
  • Once as chairman of the arbitral tribunal and once as co-arbitrator at the GICAM Arbitration Centre in Cameroon
  • Once as sole arbitrator in a dispute submitted to the Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation Centre of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • Once as chairman of the arbitral tribunal in the dispute submitted to the Court of Arbitration of Ivory Coast
  • Twice as counsel for a party to a dispute before the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) Lausanne, Switzerland
Ad Hoc Arbitration
  • Twice as chairman of the arbitral tribunal and 8 times as counsel to a party to a dispute.
  • International Business Litigation
  • Business Law
  • Public Law
  • Maritime Law
  • Banking Law
  • Telecommunications Law
  • Investment Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions.
  • English
  • French
  • La protection de la partie faible dans l’arbitrage OHADA, éditions l’Harmattan, 2017.
  • Co-author of the work « vint ans d’arbitrage OHADA : Bilan et perspectives, Acte de Colloques des 17 et 18 oct. 2019 Lexis Nexis, 2019.