Technology & Digital Markets

Selected experience

• Digital Assets / Regulatory Design

  Advising a financial-sector regulator on comparative research, regulatory architecture and statutory drafting for a national virtual-asset framework, through to enactment.

• Policy / Legislative Drafting

  Drafting and harmonising a package of national technology and innovation Bills, covering startups, data harmonisation and digital infrastructure, including stakeholder consultation and support through Cabinet and Attorney-General review.

• Fintech / Payments Licensing

  Advising African and international payment service providers on licensing, regulatory compliance and market entry in Ghana and other African jurisdictions.

• Digital Assets / Sandbox

  Advising a blockchain and digital-asset business on admission to, and participation in, a central bank innovation sandbox.

• Technology / Digital Identity

  Advising a pan-African identity-verification provider on a strategic partnership with a global payments network, including data-exchange architecture, responsibility allocation and regulatory safeguards.

• Technology / Data Governance

  Drafting data-exchange agreements, API governance frameworks and multi-party identity-verification arrangements, and conducting data-governance reviews for financial institutions and digital platforms.

• Technology / Platforms

  Advising an international ride-hailing platform on regulatory compliance in Ghana, covering advertising, courier and two-wheeler services, data protection and business-model restructuring.

• Transactions / Venture Capital

  Advising a venture capital fund on investments in technology companies across several African markets and the United Kingdom, and advising early-stage investors on due diligence, structuring and investment documentation.

• Technology / ICT Infrastructure

  Acting for a global technology-services provider in a dispute with a telecommunications operator concerning an ICT-infrastructure project, including service-level, contractual and termination issues.

• Technology / Startups & Investment Readiness

  Advising founders, incubators and accelerator portfolio companies on incorporation, intellectual property, governance, financing strategy and investment readiness.

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