is a boutique law firm based in Accra, Ghana that serves the needs of a broad range of corporate and unincorporated institutions and individuals. We pride ourselves on our excellent personalized service and extensive understanding of the legal systems, cultures, economic and regulatory environment in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa and internationally. Total client satisfaction is always our goal and we see ourselves as partners with our clients in achieving their objectives.
At CQ Legal, we have a specialist team of Corporate and Commercial lawyers who provide simple and practical solutions to the complex legal challenges our clients face in their business operations both domestically and internationally.
With our in-depth expertise and practical experience in corporate and commercial legal matters, we can assist a wide range of commercial organisations.
Our approach is to give clear and diligent advice, considering each client’s specific needs including consideration of any tax and regulatory implications in each commercial project.
Our Corporate department covers a broad spectrum of clients, encompassing public companies, limited liability companies, multinational corporations, local businesses and entrepreneurs involved in businesses in a variety of industries such as energy, aviation and infrastructure.
We have a deep understanding of both complex domestic and international transactions as well as general corporate advice on day-to-day legal issues encountered by our clients. We are well-positioned to assist our clients in anticipating and achieving their business objectives.
Our experience and knowledge of the public and the private sectors in Ghana gives us a deep and clear understanding of the wider legal and business environment.
Our Services
Our specialist lawyers routinely advise clients on:
CQ Legal is synonymous with Intellectual Property, Entertainment, Media and Sports (IPEMS). This is largely due to our strength, in-depth knowledge, and substantial presence in these fields. We have been the forerunners in these fields and we continue to make strides in our dealings with clients.
Our work covers the full range of issues that arise in these sectors, including:
We specialize in all aspects of Intellectual Property including advising, protection and commercialization. We aid our clients in patentability search, drafting and filing of patent applications, copyright protection, registration and licensing of trademarks and designs and drafting Intellectual Property agreements. Our team of lawyers also advise our clients on how to protect their economic and moral rights, and deal with cases of infringement and breaches of IP rights in the courts of Ghana, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (registration of technology transfer agreements) and other relevant institutions.
Our lawyers have provided strategic advice and counsel to a wide range of clients in the music and television arenas. Some of our representative work includes:
The media space is evolving and so are the laws that govern them. We are guided by the shift into innovation within this sector from the creation of content, distribution, digital commerce, data, and media technology and are very insightful and dynamic in this space. We therefore help clients navigate the legal and regulatory hurdles associated with the evolving laws and leverage platform benefits to assist in maximizing all revenue streams.
From startups to national media conglomerates, our clients seek our counsel for a number of needs including:
We also have growing experience representing a variety of sports industry individuals and entities, including professional and amateur athletes, sports agents, sports and marketing agencies and related companies.
We advise our clients on settlement agreement negotiations and termination of professional player contracts, advising sports agencies and player management companies on commercial, employment law and regulatory issues.
We hope to expand our expertise to work that include, corporate law advice on sport company mergers and acquisition, advising on club constitutional issues, shareholder and financing agreements, and advising sports professionals on intellectual property protection and image rights.
We have worked with a plethora of entertainers and media personalities and houses from the Ghanaian Entertainment and Media Industry and our clientele is gradually increasing.
Our clients from the entertainment and media industry include:
Record Labels we represent include:
With an increase in urbanisation and a thriving real estate industry, the Land, Property and Real Estate industry in Ghana has grown significantly over the years. Transactions in this space have become ever more complex, and demand in depth legal analysis and due diligence.
We understand that the most critical part of any transaction is the period leading up to signing the contract. It is during this period that the experience and expertise of our lawyers provide our clients with exceptional value. We make effective use of our experienced team to ensure the cost of bringing your transaction to a closure is kept at a minimum.
At CQ Legal we assist our clients during land acquisition, purchase of a property and registration and perfection of land title. We conduct legal due diligence through title searches at the Lands Commission, Land Title Registry, the Collateral Registry, Registrar General’s Department to enable us to ascertain client’s interest in immovable and movable property and reveal any conflicting interests (if any) in registered and unregistered property.
Our land services include the creation of Security Instruments and Charges, assistance with land acquisitions and dispositions and joint ventures, conveyancing of property and registration of Land Title.
Our service offering also includes providing advisory services on property development and acquisitions and all aspects of real estate transactions from acquiring land, residential and commercial property, reviewing and drafting of deeds of assignment, leases, tenancy agreements and evictions and providing advice on acquisition of property for development and litigating on property related disputes.
Our clients in the Land, Property and Real Estate practice area are usually real estate developers and individuals who either want to purchase a land or develop properties.
Regarding our Property practice, our experienced team of lawyers provide our clients with services which cut across the application of Letters of Administration and Probate to the vesting of property in our clients.
Representative Clients:
CQ Legal and Consulting is a firm that recognises the importance of providing litigation and dispute resolution services to persons and organisations with disputes.
Our main focus is to resolve disputes as quickly as possible by considering the possible outcomes against costs and risks using alternative dispute resolution and litigation processes. Our approach is always an attempt to resolve disputes amicably using various dispute resolution mechanisms such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration. Together with our network of international consultants we are able to assist clients with international commercial arbitrations, investment disputes and international trade disputes.
We also have the skill and requisite knowledge to defend or prosecute our client’s cases through the local judicial process if required. Our focus areas in relation to local disputes covers criminal and civil matters.
We work with our clients to formulate strategies which will help them achieve the best outcomes (commercial or personal). Where the need arises, we work with global litigation lawyers on strategy to ensure the provision of the best results for our clients.
At CQ legal we combine deep industry knowledge with a real understanding of the judicial process.
Finance Disputes experience
We work with UK law firms in finance disputes. Our extended network is trusted by financial institutions on their complex, high value and strategically important disputes. Many of the lawyers we work with have spent time working in-house in banks, in the financial services sector or for regulators.
Acting for banks, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners, our extended teams specialise in resolving complex, high value finance and insolvency disputes. We give commercial and pragmatic advice, we pursue a course which protects your reputation and we seek to recover what is properly due to you. With rapid advances in technology and new products and systems bringing new challenges, we are regularly consulted on novel and time critical issues. Together with our UK network, we have access to a large team of litigation and arbitration experts globally and these resources are both significant and cost effective.
