Africa Legal Associates

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.

Choosing the right financing structure can be a daunting task, ALA will comb through all the provisions of a proposed finance structure, and assist you in making the right choice for the financing of the particular infrastructure development project contemplated by the client.

With our various experienced partners in the built industry and financing sector, we can also lead you to negotiate win-win joint venture agreements with property developers to revive and grow dead capital in the properties in your portfolio.
ALA handles land litigation matters, assists with processing and authenticating land documents, and can advise you on planning and zoning laws, guidelines and regulations. We also undertake the registration of interests in real estate and assist clients with the perfection of their title. Whatever your concerns, our property solicitors can assist and represent you in finding a solution to them. We take the burden off you as a property owner by effectively managing any legal issues affecting your property, and leave you to the quiet enjoyment of the benefits of your investment.

Our services include but are not limited to:

• Infrastructure Development
• Due Diligence Exercises
• Commercial Property Finance
• Property sale and acquisition
• Perfection of title to real estate
• Property litigation
• Land legislation related queries

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.

Our services in debt restructuring and recovery include but are not limited to:

• Sending a fixed fee letter of claim
• Telephone calls chasing payments
• Issuing court proceedings
• Obtaining a court judgement
• Enforcing the judgement
• Structuring refinancing solutions
• Drafting and negotiating the terms of refinancing and security agreements

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.

Our services in litigation and arbitration include but are not limited to:

• Dispute resolution
• Alternative dispute resolution: mediation and arbitration
• Class actions
• Litigation

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.

Our services include but are not limited to:

• Corporate entity status checks
• Convening meetings, holding meetings, and drafting of all minutes of boards of directors and general meetings of shareholders and extraordinary shareholders’ meetings
• Share capital reduction and share buy-back, issuance and redemption of preference shares, and conversion of shares into stocks
• Amendments to Memorandum and Articles of Association/Company Regulations
• Approval and filing of financial accounts, annual returns, and appointment of auditors
• Constitutional changes
• Changes in the management structures because of resignation, removal, and appointment of directors

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.