Corporate & Commercial
- Diageo (on the sale of its interest in Guinness Ghana PLC)
- Societe Generale (on the sale of its interest in Societe Generale Ghana PLC)
- Scancom Plc (on its corporate restructuring to spin-off and license its mobile money business as a dedicated electronic money issuer)
- SanlamAllianz (on the merger of two insurance companies)
Financial Sector Regulator Advisory
- Securities and Exchange Commission (on the drafting of a new bill to regulate the securities industry and the provision of corporate governance and regulatory compliance training to its licensees)
- Bank of Ghana (on the legal regime for repurchase agreements and enforcing netting transactions in Ghana)
Financial Services Licensing & Compliance
- Affinity Savings and Loans (on the acquisition of its savings and loans licence)
- Izwe Loans PLC (on regulatory compliance with the Bank of Ghana)
- Citibank (regarding on-going regulatory compliance advisory)
- Stanbic Investment Management Services LTD (on the establishment and licensing of a private debt mutual fund)
Banking & Finance
- Stanbic Bank Ghana LTD (on its unlisted medium term note programme and commercial paper programme)
- Africa Trade Finance (on its loan facility to GCB Bank PLC)
- Africa Trade Finance (on its loan facility to CalBank PLC)
Asset Finance
- Caterpillar Financial Services (on the provision of asset finance for the purchase of Caterpillar equipment)
- ABSA Bank Ghana LTD (on its loan facility to Moove for the acquisition of vehicles)
- Macquarie Bank (on asset financing to Genser Energy)
Fintech
- M1 Group (on the acquisition of a payment service provider licence)
- Bamboo Financial Services (on the acquisition of a licence to offer foreign stocks in Ghana through digital services)
- Letshego (on its partnership with Jumo for the provision of digital loans)
- Binance & Worldcoin (on the regulatory regime for cryptocurrency)
Capital Markets
- Ministry of Finance (on the structuring and implementation of the domestic debt exchange programme)
- Ghana Cocoa Board (on the swap of Cocoa Bills for new treasury securities under the DDEP)
- ESLA PLC (on the operation of its bond programme)
- Daakye Trust PLC (on the establishment and operation of its receivables backed bond programme)
Regulated Funds
- Origen Private Debt Fund (on the establishment and licensing of Ghana’s first private debt fund and its debt investment into investee companies)
- Oasis Africa VC Fund (on legal due diligence on potential investee companies and its debt and equity investments into investee companies)
- British International Investments (on its establishment and licensing of a self-managed private equity fund)
Derivatives & Repo
- JP Morgan Securities Plc (on ISDA transactions with the Bank of Ghana)
- JP Morgan Securities Plc (on repurchase agreements with the Bank of Ghana)
- Frontclear (on the legal regime for repurchase agreements and enforcing netting transactions in Ghana)
- Rand Merchant Bank (on ISDA transactions and repurchase agreements with the Bank of Ghana)
Project Finance
- United States International Development Finance Corporation (on its refinancing of the construction of a school)
- Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (on its participation in certain project finance transactions)
- Barak Fund SPC Limited (on the financing of a liquified natural gas pipeline project and liquefied petroleum gas storage and transport infrastructure
- Afrexim Bank (on its financing of the construction of a floating dry dock project)
ESG & Sustainable Finance
- Simmons & Simmons LLP (advice on Ghana’s carbon credit regulatory framework)
- Ministry of Finance (stakeholder consultations for drafting Ghana’s Green Taxonomy)
- Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (on a loan facility to finance the construction of sustainable and EDGE-certified student hostels)
- Stanbic Bank Ghana LTD and Stanbic Investment Management Services LTD (on the establishment of an ESG compliant REIT)
Energy & Natural Resources
- Advised a mining company on compliance with local content laws in Ghana
- Advised a company on compliance with Petroleum Commission’s local content regulations
- Advised a foreign lender on a US$20 million revolving trade finance to a Ghanaian oil and gas company
- Advised foreign investors on a US$20 million investment in a Ghanaian energy company to support the development of two industrial zones in Ghana
Property
- Drafting and negotiating a joint venture development agreement between a developer and a landowner
- Drafting full suite of documentation for construction, development and sale of units in apartment buildings
- Reve Maison Construction (on its construction contracts)
- Reve Maison Properties (on legal due diligence for immovable property and negotiation of sale and purchase agreements)
Tax
- Macquarie Bank (on tax structuring)
- Leapfrog Investments (on tax structuring)
- Tax advice on a corporate group restructure involving a Mauritian entity, a South African entity and the interplay of Ghana’s double taxation agreements with these jurisdictions
- Advised an upstream oil company with respect to its tax dispute with the Ghana Revenue Authority
Telecoms & Entertainment
- Advised a communications company on compliance with National Communications Authority regulations
- Stonebwoy (as general counsel)
- Burniton Music Group (legal advisory)
- Ground Up Chale (as general counsel)
Sports
- Drafting and negotiating player transfer agreements
- Drafting and reviewing sports agency agreements
- Provided training on the rules of the game to sporting clubs and football players