Ntrakwah & Co.

No international commercial law firm has more experience guiding clients in the Ghanaian business environment. After all, over the last three decades, we’ve helped create the Ghanaian business environment.

Put our peerless corporate counselling services to work for your venture.

Company Formation

We are a leading advisor for new company formation in Ghana. Company formation in Ghana requires strict compliance with regulations, knowledge of the proper channels, and the skills to guide you through them. Ntrakwah & Co. puts that knowledge and skill at your disposal.

Legal Due Diligence

Due diligence in Ghana requires knowledge and insight that only come with a long history in international business and commercial law. With more than three decades experience as a top Ghanaian law firm—including the publication of “Due Diligence in Ghana” by Founder and Managing Partner Felix Ntrakwah—Ntrakwah & Co. ensures your acquisitions a fair value and safeguards against legal booby traps.

Capital Markets

As the leading corporate and commercial lawyers in Ghana, we are uniquely qualified to draft regulations, ensure compliance and offer advice about listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Ntrakwah & Co. has guided the privatization of several government-owned industries, and overseen public listings of some of Ghana’s largest companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Ntrakwah & Co. has seen clients through some of the largest mergers, both domestic and international, in West African history. As Ghana’s leading company formation consultants, we draft share sale and purchase agreements and shareholders’ agreements; conduct seller’s and buyer’s due diligence, and draft all required contracts and transactional documents. Check out the 2015 Ghana Mergers and Acquisitions Report we authored for the International Financial Law Review.

Project Finance

Our resources and reputation for integrity within Ghana’s commercial and business law communities can help you secure the capital you need with the most favourable terms—and minimum of legal interference. We structure, negotiate and document project financing agreements to specifically cater to your requirements and expectations.

Contracts

Each Ntrakwah & Co. partner is experienced in negotiating and drafting commercial contracts. Each partner is able to advise you on the risks of corporate and commercial contracts, helping you minimize or reduce liabilities within the company law of Ghana.

Investment

We have vast experience with corporate and private investors from Europe, Asia and the Americas, and frequently represent clients in debt and equity financing. We are trusted legal advisors in commercial and corporate law to many of the major banks and financial institutions in Ghana.

Ghana’s Foremost International Corporate Law Firm

Felix Ntrakwah founded the Corporate Law Institute, of which Nana Yaw Ntrakwah, Abena Ntrakwah-Mensah and Kwadwo Gyasi Ntrakwah are all members. Every Ntrakwah & Co. partner is a skilled negotiator, a trusted business advisor and a consummate commercial contract lawyer.

In addition, Abena Ntrakwah-Mensah heads our sister company, Corporate Profile Limited, which provides a wide range of company secretarial services—ensuring that accounts and records are frequently and regularly updated with the Registrar General’s Department.

Get additional assistance with secretarial services

Companies are always in need of top-notch secretarial services. Let Ntrakwah & Co. provide such assistance with its superior secretarial services, which include the following:

• Drafting of minutes
• Filing of various forms at the Registrar General’s Department, including change of directorship and increase/decreased instated capital of companies

Foreign businesses must adhere to extremely specific labour laws in Ghana. Ntrakwah & Co. are the experts at helping multinationals navigate these laws to their own benefit—and the benefit of their Ghanaian employees.

Multijurisdictional Expertise

We work closely with our clients’ management and human resources professionals to develop and maintain clear, carefully tailored employee handbooks and policies that adhere to Ghanaian labour laws.

Contracts and Policies

For more than three decades, we’ve acted as lawyers for multinational clients, advising them on every employment and immigration issue:

• Drafting employment contracts that not only favour both parties equally, but that leave no room for misinterpretation or disputes
• Representing clients in labour and employment disputes before the labour commission, and in litigation
• Advising and drafting policies on corporate social responsibility, employment manuals, redundancies, trade unions and collective bargaining agreements
• Advising clients how to terminate employment contracts to avoid wrongful dismissal suits
• Securing various types of permits for expatriate staff of corporate bodies, including visas upon arrival, residence permits, and non-citizen cards

Foreign businesses must adhere to extremely specific labour laws in Ghana. Ntrakwah & Co. are the experts at helping multinationals navigate these laws to their own benefit—and the benefit of their Ghanaian employees.

Multijurisdictional Expertise

We work closely with our clients’ management and human resources professionals to develop and maintain clear, carefully tailored employee handbooks and policies that adhere to Ghanaian labour laws.

Contracts and Policies

For more than three decades, we’ve acted as lawyers for multinational clients, advising them on every employment and immigration issue:

• Drafting employment contracts that not only favour both parties equally, but that leave no room for misinterpretation or disputes
• Representing clients in labour and employment disputes before the labour commission, and in litigation
• Advising and drafting policies on corporate social responsibility, employment manuals, redundancies, trade unions and collective bargaining agreements
• Advising clients how to terminate employment contracts to avoid wrongful dismissal suits
• Securing various types of permits for expatriate staff of corporate bodies, including visas upon arrival, residence permits, and non-citizen cards

From global trademark registration to product infringement, we practice the intricacies of Ghanaian law for the protection of intellectual property more expertly than anyone.

Intellectual Property and International Trade

Founder and Managing Partner Felix Ntrakwah, a preeminent trademark litigation attorney, is a former Registrar of Trademarks, Companies, Patents and Designs. Trained in Intellectual Property Law in Sweden and the UK, under the fellowship of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, he was a member of the Committee of experts who drafted the model law on Trademarks for English-speaking Africa.

Under Felix and Abena’s leadership, the trademark and patent attorneys specialize in:

• Trademark registration, international and domestic
• Filing of patent applications
• Cases of trademark infringement before the Registrar of Trademarks and in the courts of Ghana
• Drafting book publishing and royalty agreements
• Collaboration with government agencies to seize and destroy counterfeits of our clients’ products brought into Ghana

Ghana IP and Copyright Infringement Attorneys

Other Ntrakwah & Company lawyers are also experts in intellectual property law—internationally, and within Ghana—with deep expertise in copyright infringements and trademarks.

Abena Ntrakwah-Mensah has extensive experience in trademark registration, filing of patent applications, and counterfeiting cases, while Kwadwo Ntrakwah studied Intellectual Property Law as part of his master’s program at the University of Exeter.

Ntrakwah & Co. is the winner of the Acquisition International 2015 M&A “Ghana & Best for Intellectual Property – Corporate Law Firm of the Year” Award.

If your business requires representation in Ghanaian courts, you need the most skilled and experienced corporate and commercial litigation lawyers available. In other words, you need Ntrakwah & Co.

Ghana’s Top Litigation Lawyers

Whether settling corporate and commercial disputes or ensuring shareholder protection, no firm has greater experience or expertise than Ntrakwah & Co. in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Ghana.

Our track record of representing private and public companies in court is unparalleled. Boardroom wrangling? Shareholder dispute? Conflict and dispute resolution? Breach of contract? We’ll make sure your cases in Ghanaian courts are handled to your highest satisfaction.

Formidable Courtroom Expertise

Managing Partner Felix Ntrakwah, and Nana Yaw Ntrakwah, head the litigation team. The Litigation team is responsible for litigation involving the transfer of shares, rights issues, pre-emptive rights, and representative actions, among others. They frequently litigate on behalf of boards of directors, committees, management and leadership.

The firm’s lawyers have represented clients in the various courts of Ghana leading to landmark decisions in Ghanaian courts.

All Ntrakwah & Co. partners handle breach of contract law, with expertise in the dispute resolution process when parties fail to perform their obligations; including:

• Breach of directors’ duties and shareholder agreements
• Appointment and removal of directors
• Minority shareholder protection
• Corporate governance
• Sale and purchase of assets/shares
• EGM requisition
• Takeover disputes
• Warranty cases
• Constitutional interpretation
• Debt recovery
• Trademark infringement
• Construction disputes
• Insurance disputes

Buying or building in Ghana? You’ll want the confidence of navigating the intricacies of Ghanaian real estate with Ntrakwah & Co.

Ghanaian Real Estate Law

For more than three decades, Ntrakwah & Co. has set the standard in Ghanaian real estate law for skill, innovation and attention to detail. Parties both foreign and domestic trust us to ensure that transactions progress smoothly, in observance of all regulations, with full respect to the legal rights of everyone involved.

We assist our clients with:

• Conducting due diligence and searches on land in Ghana, prior to acquisition and development
• Advise on tax incentives for companies involved in real estate
• Joint Venture Agreements for development of real estate
• Sale and purchase of properties
• Project development
• Drafting of Apartment Sales Agreements
• Drafting Homeowners’ handbook
• Financing
• Real estate marketing agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions of real estate based businesses
• Restructurings and workouts of troubled loans

A History of Accomplishment

Ntrakwah & Co. has helped clients achieve success in some of Ghana’s largest real estate deals:

• Aiding a Spanish developer in the return of his share in a landmark real estate development, 24 years after state confiscation
• Conducting due diligence on the site, drafted numerous agreements, helping source financing, restructuring loans and representing the client in court concerning a complex land deal
• Advising companies on tax issues and a joint venture agreement relating to the creation of residential premises
• Advising a client in the land acquisition and joint venture agreements for a large-scale residential and commercial development