Practice Areas
Why You Need the Top Lawyers
At Africaan Legal Associates, we prioritize your peace of mind. Our seasoned team of legal professionals combines experience with a client-centric approach, ensuring personalized attention to each case. From navigating intricate legal landscapes to providing transparent communication, we stand as unwavering advocates for your rights.
What We Are Expert At
Legal Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
With the banking and finance industry being a driving force of every economy, we are a team that boasts exceptionally skilled legal advisers who have a wealth of experience with a vast knowledge and understanding of credit facility agreements, debt and equity funding and tax management. We provide proficient and practical legal advice to all types of clients looking for commercially viable solutions to their financing needs.
ALA is the banker’s reliable partner when it comes to all legal matters, including giving guidance into the tax laws to manage tax obligations efficiently. We assist our clients in putting their best financial foot forward in sourcing and funding, both equity and debt, for their projects.
Our lawyers also have immense experience in working with international law firms in the capacity of Ghana counsel on behalf of lenders, borrowers and investors.
Land Law, Conveyancing & Construction
The ALA Real Estate Team can advise you on all your property transactions. We cover commercial, industrial, and residential property leasing and sales. Our lawyers assist clients to select properties which best suit the intended use, and conduct due diligence exercises in order to best advise you on all legal documentation and formalities required to effectively secure the client’s interests under each transaction.
We also advise you on the range of mortgage financing options which are best suited for each transaction, review any financial documents, and advise you on the most efficient way to settle your obligations under each peculiar transaction.
Debt Restructuring & Debt Recovery
We provide debt recovery services to individuals and businesses. By using our expertise at each phase, we ensure that we maximise our client’s successful recovery rate. We offer a cost effective and stress-free route to recovering money that is overdue to you.
We also work with financial institutions and corporate borrowers on restructuring solutions for distressed debt situations. We apply our technical legal expertise, complemented by our commercial acumen to assist our clients in restructuring existing debt so that the borrower is able to improve its liquidity and continue to operate as well as securing repayment for the lending financial institutions.
Energy, Oil & Gas
ALA plays a market-leading role in the energy and oil & gas space in Ghana. ALA authored the Law & Practice – Ghana section published in the 2019 and 2020 Chambers Global Practice Guide, Energy: Oil & Gas.
The firm possesses revolutionary expertise in relation to oil & gas related work in the country. Two of the firm’s three partners were among the first to be exposed to and be trained in oil & gas legal work and the market holds their counsel in very high esteem. Members of ALA are trusted advisors to market-leading clients who are the syndicate of lenders who financed the Operator Jubilee field and provided non-Operator JOA financing to the OCTP Field.
Mining
As a firm, we have relevant experience in advising clients on all aspects of mining. The mining team leverages its knowledge of the mining laws of the Republic and its experience over the years to advise clients. The team has advised clients on mining rights applications, compliance, renewal of licences, prospecting, refinery, resolution of disputes, and securitization of gold royalties.
The team has advised clients on mining rights applications, compliance, renewal of licences, prospecting, refinery, resolution of disputes, and securitization of gold royalties. The team also advises mining companies on corporate governance, commercial agreements, finance agreements and due diligence works. Our team has contributed to the passage of some of the laws in the mining sector as key participants at workshops and seminars organised for such purpose.
Our clients include holders of large scale and medium scale mining concessions where they are mining precious metals such as gold, manganese and bauxite. Other clients carry out stone quarrying.
We have worked as counsel to international counsel advising the Government of the Republic of Ghana on the securitization of royalties from gold mining in Ghana where we provided key insights into the mining laws of Ghana and the impact of the intended transaction. The team also advised on the promulgation of the relevant laws and reviewed key agreements.
Foreign Direct Investment
At ALA we assist our clients from all over the world who wish to establish industries or businesses in Ghana. Our experienced lawyers have acted on behalf of some of the world’s leading companies in diverse sectors and are ready to advise you based on your specific needs. We advise both Ghanaian and foreign entities wishing to expand their operations domestically and overseas. We assist our clients on the various investment laws, how to set up tax efficient joint ventures and match the right foreign investors with the right local partners.
We have a strong compliance team, that advises on and assists clients with applications for the grant or renewal of permits, licenses and other regulatory requirements across the different business sectors, ensuring that your business is compliant with local laws and requirements.
As a foreign investor, immigration is a big part of doing business in Ghana and we appreciate that the Ghanaian immigration process can be cumbersome. Our team of lawyers are here to help you avoid the struggle of interpreting immigration regulations and guidelines; simply leave it to us to deal with all the paperwork. We deal with settlement/residency, citizenship, work permits, application for quota, appeals, etc.
Our strong legal networks across the African continent and the Commonwealth, position us better to serve our clients with business interests outside Ghana. With years of experience and multijurisdictional qualifications, our team, can be your gateway to doing business in and out of Ghana.
Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Our dispute resolution team operate on the principle of reaching rapid and lasting results. We believe in settling litigation matters as efficiently and as fast as possible, to minimise the pressure placed on our clients. Our primary duty is to give expert advice on legal disputes and the best legal options and strategies available for their timely and successful resolution. Disputes are often won or lost on the research skills, depth, accuracy, and forensic skills of lawyers.
Should your matter proceed to litigation or arbitration, be assured that a hard-working and dedicated team of lawyers will be defending your interests in every aspect of the matter. We are well positioned to assist with international arbitration as well.
Company Secretarial Services
Whether as a new entity or an existing player in the market, we will take full care of your corporate governance matters. Corporate compliance can be a complex legal requirement for Ghanaian registered companies.
With a team of highly skilled and regarded company secretarial specialists, Africa Legal Associates can help your firm with its board of directors and officers in the governance of the firm and in fulfilling all related statutory obligations in a timely and efficient manner.
Intellectual Property
Our primary goal is to manage and alleviate risk and maximise the return from intellectual property (IP) assets for the benefit of our clients. We advise on all aspects of the creation, exploitation, and enforcement of IP rights.
We deal with matters relating to disputes covering the full spectrum of intellectual property rights, these range from patent actions to all forms of dispute relating to trademarks, passing off, copyright, database rights, design rights and breach of confidence claims.
Our legal advisors also assist with IP related agreements, which include trademark licensing, distribution agreements, sponsorship agreements and franchising deals. We also provide strategic advice in managing and commercialising patent and trademark portfolios.
With the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the largest global free trade area by countries participating, the role of IP had never been this critical for trade in Africa, especially, as member states may seek to pool together and optimise limited capacity and resources and avoid duplication. If AfCFTA is to transform the continent’s economic prospects, then the ‘new generation’ issue of IP in cross-border trade requires the expertise of firms like ALA to guide their clients and their products through this new and exciting market of great opportunities.
