Professional Experience: Jerome D. Ngando has over twelve (12) years of legal experience working with various law firms and multinational companies in the United States and abroad. He started his legal career in Cameroon as in-house corporate counsel in 1996 when he joined the legal department of Guinness Cameroon, S.A., one of the largest companies in central Africa and the local subsidiary of the international brewery company Guinness. He later went to private practice and represented local subsidiaries of multinational companies such as Exxon Mobil, Toyota, Texaco and Guinness in civil and commercial litigation matters.

Mr. Ngando also did a legal internship in Paris, France, served as a Judicial Intern at the District of Columbia Superior Court, and a Law Clerk and Paralegal for large law firms in the Washington, DC area. In 2005, he joined the law department of Sodexho, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Sodexho Alliance, S. A., a fortune 500 company and a world's leader in food and facilities management services. In 2006, after he passed the Virginia Bar, Mr. Ngando was promoted to in-house corporate counsel. As in-house corporate counsel for Sodexho, an organization with more than 313,000 employees at 24,900 sites in 76 countries around the world, Mr. Ngando provided legal support in both English and French to the company's senior executives, various internal divisions and to Sodexho’s employees in the U.S., Canada and France. In 2008, Mr. Ngando started the law firm of J.D. Ngando, a general practice law firm.

Education: Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC, USA (LL.M., 2003)
University of Douala, Cameroon (J.D. equivalent in Business Law, 1995)
University of Yaoundé, Cameroon (J.D. equivalent in Administrative and
Public International Law, 1993).

Background: Ngando is an American citizen of African descent. He is fluent in four (4) languages including French and English and has a civil law and common law background. He was admitted to the bar in Cameroon in 1996 and in Virginia in 2006.
Jerome D. Ngando's international legal background and language capabilities make him the type of attorney that you want to have on your side in today's global economy.

Attorney’s Practice Areas: Business Law; Business Formation; Business Start-up; Business Disputes; Corporate Law, Contracts; Bankruptcy Law; Landlord-Tenant and Immigration.