Areas of Practice
Our areas of practice can broadly be categorized into four major groups, namely, general legal and advisory services, company secretarial practice, specialized consultancies and litigation and dispute resolution. In practice, advising our clients invariably involves more than one group.
Our general legal and advisory services cut across a wide spectrum areas including but not limited to the following:
COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES
Our Company Secretarial Practice provides the following services:
- Incorporation of companies of various kinds as well as registration of External Companies(Branch/Liaison Office );
- Provision of Company Secretaries and Registered Office for companies;
- Maintenance of the company’s official Seal and Statutory Books for easy inspection by the directors and members of the company, and the Registrar of Companies;
- Preparation and issuance of Share Certificates;
- Handling of all corporate secretarial compliance issues raised by the Companies’ Registry in respect of companies;
- Drafting, preparation and filing of all documents stipulated in the Companies Act, 1963 including, but not limited to, board and shareholders’ resolutions, Company Forms and Annual Returns;
- Arranging, covering and recording minutes of Board and Shareholders’ Meetings;
- Provision of advice on, and registration of companies with, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) and the Minerals Commission etc;
- Application for immigrant quotas and work and residence permits for expatriate staff of client companies from the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre and the Ghana Immigration Service;
- Advisory services on corporate structuring and restructuring; and
- Conduct of company secretarial due diligence.
- Corporate Governance: We advise clients on the development of corporate governance systems including advice relating to board structures and composition, responsibilities and liabilities of board directors and board decision.
SPECIALISED CONSULTANCIES
We are frequently consulted on a variety of specialized subject areas and tasked to research into specific questions by various organizations, institutions and individuals to provide in-depth consultancy services. We provide specialist consultancy services in the following areas:
- Land law and tenure issues
- High seas governance issues
- Local and international fishery resources management issues
- Maritime law
- Company secretarial issues
- Banking law issues
- Natural resource management and regulation issues