AB & David Africa

Corporate/ Finance/ Head of Intellectual Property and Telecommunication

Partner

Akosua Akowuah is a Partner with the Corporate, Finance, and head of the Intellectual Property, Telecommunications & Technology Practice Group of the Ghana office of AB & David Africa. She has been involved in advising the firm’s clients on corporate and financing transactions across sub-Saharan Africa. Significantly, Akosua was part of the AB & David team which advised Ecobank Ghana Limited (the lead arranger) on a GHS510,000,000 syndicated loan (from nine banks in Ghana) to Scancom PLC, the largest telecommunications service provider in Ghana. She has also advised on several loan and security transactions particularly for the development of major infrastructure projects in Ghana.

Akosua has advised the firm’s clients on regulatory, and compliance matters in the telecommunications sector, M&A transactions and corporate restructuring and general regulatory advice for local and international clients. She has advised many start-ups, SMEs, local and international businesses on IP rights and has assisted with protection of IPRs in Ghana and other parts of Africa.

English

Ghana Bar Association

International Bar Association

Qualifying Certificate (Ghana School of Law)

Barrister-at-Law; LL.B (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)