MINKAH-PREMO, OSEI-BONSU, BRUCE-CATHLINE & PARTNERS (MPOBB) is a firm that has lawyers and staff of varied backgrounds providing integrated legal services. The firm has its roots in Minkah-Premo & Co (MPAC) which was established in 1996 through the joint vision of Justice Kusi-Minkah Premo and Stephen Oppong J.A. With a vision to build a commonwealth for lawyers in private practice, it started its operation from Kumasi and extended it to Accra, with its office location at Adabraka, near Graphic Road. The Accra practice was run by Justice Kusi-Minkah Premo and Wallace Bruce-Cathline as Partners and was later joined by Isaac Emmil Osei-Bonsu.
The Board of the firm which was set up as a limited liability expanded to include Akenten Appiah Menkah (a lawyer, politician and prominent industrialist), Professor Ofosu-Armaah (an eminent lawyer and academic) as Chairman and James Victor Gbeho (a diplomat) as the first non-executive directors. Until the expansion, the firm was solely guided by its Honorary Partner, Ehunabobirim Prah Agyensaim VI, Paramount Chief of the Assin Owirenkyi Traditional Area (Assin Kushea), known in private life as Wellington E. Jonah.
The firm grew to have a Sunyani office which was run by Hon Kwasi Ameyaw Cheremeh. In May 2002, the firm relocated to its current location in Labone. After several expansions, the Accra branch of the firm is now housed in a built-for-purpose six-floor office building on the Labone site, known as Bruce Towers.
As a commonwealth for lawyers the firm grew to have more equity partners comprising Premo, Bruce-Cathline, Oppong, Ameyaw, Osei-Bonsu, Akuoko, Gyau, Akwesi, Owusu Ansah and Adu Boahen. For his elevation to the bench, Oppong JA exited the firm just as Hon Cheremeh did to enable him pursue political office. Cheremeh’s exit eventually brought an end to the Sunyani branch.
With lawyers in Accra and Kumasi specializing in various branches of law, the firm prides itself as a conservative but dynamic legal services provider.
This team’s work covers the gamut of laws. The firm’s academic research assignments from clients are handled by this team, in addition to the evaluation of legal options in Post-Project Audits and Contract Management assessment. Embedded in the team’s practice is ADR, where our skills in negotiation and mediation processes have been of tremendous assistance to our clients.
This is especially so in situations where it has proved cost effective and time-saving to settle issues in an amicable out-of court setting, rather than in the time-wasting process that characterizes our judicial system at present. The use of the court processes, however, in the realisation of a just outcome has been our hallmark in our phenomenal bridging of the gap between the law and justice.
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Compliance & Processing
Advocacy And Court Attendance
Areas of Litigation
Training
The Corporate & Compliance team was set up exclusively to facilitate the growth of companies through adherence to the set corporate governance standards, and ensure compliance of businesses to the laws that govern organisations and regulated industries.
Our experience in handling corporate issues ranging from registration to liquidation, to mergers and acquisitions as well as cases in court for numerous companies has endowed the team with a wealth of information that can steer companies away from avoidable risks and conflicts. The team’s human resource capabilities put us in a position to appreciate the tenor and requirements of the provisions of the Companies Code and the Regulations of companies, as well as the dictates of the laws of the various regulatory bodies.
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Compliance & Registry Practice
Court & Adjudication Practice
Training
This area of practice embraces Banking, Finance, Credit Transaction and Recovery of Debt. Debt arising out of default of private loans and financial assistance borne out of bank and non-bank transactions are all pursued under this area of our practice.
We maintain a database of obstinate and repeat debt defaulters, which our clients can access in their credit assessment of their customers or devising the appropriate approach in dealing with their defaulting customers.
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Compliance & Securitisation
Litigation
Training
This team embraces an array of areas of law practice. In addition to Legal Audit, Due Diligence, Re-zoning and Planning, the team, akin to the Litigation wing, also partakes in academic research for clients.
Embedded in the team’s practice are Acquisition, Perfection of Title, and the creation of Lesser Known Interests (LKI). Our considerable wealth of experience and skill in wealth creation and access to finance based on land have greatly benefited our clients in recent times. Land litigation and subrogation of rights as well as acting as intermediaries in Charges Registration and Realisation of Charges are handled in a most exceptional manner by this unit which houses lawyers, land economists and paralegals.
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Compliance & Processing
Litigation
Training
As a law firm, we naturally strive to satisfy our clientele’s needs through our exquisite structured human resource practice. Our lawyers work industriously side by side with our clients to negotiate collective bargaining agreements, structure Trust Deeds for Provident Funds and audit compliance with the HR regulatory framework throughout the year making sure employees and employers coexist harmoniously to mutually enjoy the full benefits of each and every agreement.
Our firm specializes in the review and drafting of industrial relations instruments, a challenge faced by countless organisations in recent times. Meeting our clients’ needs in dispute settlement proceedings put us on the map as a leading firm in the justice industry.
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Compliance and Registry Practice
Court and Adjudication Practice
Training
The IP & Commercial team boasts of topnotch experts whose expertise in the industry is unmatched. The Intellectual Property and Commercial Unit deals with a broad spectrum of work with a reach and influence well beyond the shores of Ghana. We therefore provide services to both local and international businesses and individuals. Below is a repertoire of the services that we provide:
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Maintaining peace even when the family chooses to stay in pieces
MPOBB’s Family Law practice is built around your needs. Our formidable team of Solicitors, negotiators and advocates pride themselves on the pragmatic application of law in dissecting love. We understand the necessity of co-operation even in separation and sobriety even in adversity where family issues arise.
We continue to be a firm of first choice due to our uncompromising commitment to maintain peace even where the family chooses to stay in pieces.
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Compliance
Court & Adjudication Practice
Training
Maintaining peace even when the family chooses to stay in pieces
MPOBB’s Family Law practice is built around your needs. Our formidable team of Solicitors, negotiators and advocates pride themselves on the pragmatic application of law in dissecting love. We understand the necessity of co-operation even in separation and sobriety even in adversity where family issues arise.
We continue to be a firm of first choice due to our uncompromising commitment to maintain peace even where the family chooses to stay in pieces.
Solicitor’s Work
Compliance
Court & Adjudication Practice
Training
