Africa Legal Associates

Managing Partner

Nana Adjoa Hackman is the managing partner and a co-founder of Africa Legal Associates (ALA), a Ghana-based, pan-African corporate law firm. She has over 20 years of legal and advisory experience.

Ms. Hackman is a corporate legal practitioner specialising in corporate governance, banking, and petroleum law & policy. She has provided advice on corporate and legal issues to multinational companies and international businesses operating across Africa. She was called to the Ghana Bar in 2003, when she began private legal practice at Kudjawu & Co, a leadinglaw firm in Ghana. She was until August 2016 the Head of Legal Department and Company Secretary for United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited. In 2015 she co-founded ALA.

Ms. Hackman has extensive business experience, having set up and run companies in the media and real estate sectors, at the board level. She was between 2017 and 2021 a member of the Board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the Society for Petroleum Engineers, and the Energy Institute, and has published articles on the petroleum industry. Ms. Hackman sits on the global advisory board of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council. She was a member of the panel of judges for the Women of the Future & TESCO 50 Rising Stars in ESG awards in 2022 and 2023.

Nana Adjoa has an MBA with merit from the Imperial College Business School, where she studied on the“Inspiring Women – Executive MBA scholarship” awarded by Imperial College Business School in partnership with the 30% Club, a campaign that aims to secure gender balance in board rooms across the world. She also has an LLM degree with distinction from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland.

She currently represents Imperial College London as a mentor on Moving Ahead and the 30% Club’s Mission Gender Equity cross-company mentoring programme. Nana Adjoa is also the founder of Drive to Inspire – Africa, a non-profit organisation focused on youth education and mentorship for girls.

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Member of the Ghana Bar Association

Member of the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Member of the Energy Institute (EI)

Nana Adjoa holds an MBA from the Imperial College Business School in London, as well an LLM degree from the University of Dundee, Scotland (CEPMLP - Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy).

She obtained her qualifying certificate in law from the Ghana School of Law and her LLB degree from the University of Ghana.