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.

Financial Regulation / Restructuring

Advising on the restructuring of a mobile-money business, including governance and compliance architecture, regulatory segregation and AML/CFT integration.

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 / Telecommunications

Acting for an international investor on the acquisition of shares in an African mobile network operator.

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.

Transactions / Mobility

Advising an electric-vehicle charging business on capital raising and strategic alliances with international energy groups.

Transactions / Banking & Finance

Advising on syndicated and bilateral financing transactions for banks and corporates, including cross-border compliance and financing documentation.

Policy / Public Sector Structuring

Advising government on the legal structuring, governance and regulatory implementation of public-interest financing vehicles, including a levy-backed bond programme and a bank-recapitalisation vehicle.

Policy / Energy Sector

Advising ministries and state-owned enterprises on the legal structuring, documentation and regulatory aspects of an energy-sector recovery programme.

Financial Regulation / Development Partners

Conducting legal and regulatory reviews of fintechs and financial institutions for a development-partner programme, identifying compliance gaps and recommending reforms for the digital-finance ecosystem.

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.