Member Profiles

Adelaide Benneh Prempeh is the Founder and Managing Partner of B & P Associates. As a dual qualified lawyer with a wealth of experience from Ghana and England & Wales, Adelaide has over the past 19 years, represented and advised a broad range of clients including Multinational Companies, Developers, Contractors and Engineers to navigate the legal and regulatory landscape of Ghana and the United Kingdom. Many of these projects have had a positive impact on national and regional developments across the respective countries. Her practice areas include International Family Law, Probate & Administration of Estates, Project Finance & Development, Energy & Natural Resources, Construction & Infrastructure, Investment Advisory, Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance. She has also advised a broad range of clients including Multinational Companies, Developers, Contractors and Engineers to navigate the legal and regulatory landscape of Ghana. Adelaide possesses great legal drafting skills, advocacy skills, communication skills and corporate transaction management skills. She is a Legal Consultant to the World Bank Group on Ghana’s Investment regime, an appointed Tutor at the Ghana School of Law and serves on the Editorial Committee of the Ghana School of Law Journal. She is also the elected Board Chair of the Ghana Netherlands Business and Culture Council and serves as Company Secretary on the Boards of a number of companies operating in Ghana. The Chambers Global Guide 2020 ranked Adelaide as “…a seasoned corporate lawyer who receives high praise from sources, who enthuse: "Adelaide has incredible insight into the commercial regulatory framework in Ghana; she is meticulous and understands our business needs. She is always a step ahead, anticipating the potential risk factors."”

Lucie is the Managing Partner at B&A and heads the Firm’s Corporate, Transactional and Advisory practices. Lucie is a trained solicitor and barrister currently practising in the Ghanaian jurisdiction with varied levels of experience, and capable of providing clear and honest legal advice on matters of concern to clients. Lucie’s experience in Ghana regards a range of transactions across various industries including mining, aviation, banking, renewables, soft commodities, and oil & gas matters. She has a proven record in various expertise and is noted to be meticulous, efficient, and sure to maintain communication lines open with colleagues and clients. She has advised clients such as Egypt Air, Happy Sunshine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Taiwan, Enercon, AfroFuture, and AfDB.

Paa Kwesi Hagan is a solicitor, immigration expert and head of Globetrotters Legal (a firm specialised in providing compliance and immigration solutions for global corporations operating in Ghana). Paa Kwesi has a wealth of experience in advising clients on Ghanaian immigration and compliance matters and also liaising with regulatory bodies in Ghana. He has advised several high net-worth companies and multinationals on immigration and compliance issues in Ghana. He has also performed immigration audits for very key companies in Ghana. In addition, he has represented clients at immigration hearings before various regulatory bodies and continually engages positively with government institutions to influence immigration policy. He has a wealth of experience in liaising with the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) and has successfully negotiated for grant quotas for several high net-worth companies in Ghana. He was part of a team of experts that developed the 'Ten year Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Ghana' which is currently before the Ghanaian parliament. He has been recognised in Who's Who Legal: Ghana 2014 published by Law Business Research UK as one of the leading experts in the field of labor and employment law and has also been recognised as one of the leading corporate immigration lawyers in the world. The only one recognised in Ghana by “The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration lawyers: 2014’ Furthermore, he has recently authored a Corporate Immigration Manual as a guide to navigating the corporate immigration scene in Ghana. Prior to forming Globetrotters Legal, Paa Kwesi Hagan worked as a Senior Associate at the reputable law firm of Fugar & Co where he was head of immigration and compliance. His roles included setting up of businesses in various sectors of the economy including Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Logistic and Freight Forwarding, construction and Energy sectors. Paa Kwesi is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He was educated at the Ghana School of Law, University of Ghana and Mfantsipim School. He is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and an International Associate of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Audrey Naa Dei Kotey is a senior attorney at AudreyGrey. Her areas of focus are corporate and commercial law, financial markets law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking & finance and taxation. Naa’s experience includes advising on a wide range of transactions relating to capital markets, acquisitions, finance raising, regulatory compliance, property and tax structuring, related tax matters such as amnesty, appeals etc and undertaking negotiations with the Authorities. She has recently advised on assessments issued by the Revenue Authorities to high net worth individuals. Naa has also advised on the implementation of an employee compensation scheme for a regional project management company and the structuring of an investment vehicle involving complex tax and accounting issues for an international consortium of contractors. She has also assisted in conducting buyer due diligence for large international corporate institutions and on effective structuring of companies entering into the Ghanaian economy. Prior to joining the firm, Naa Dei worked at N Dowuona & Co, a corporate and commercial law firm in Ghana where she worked on several large financial market transactions, dealt with tax matters on behalf of clients particularly related to international structuring, listed security transactions, transfer pricing and tax implications of corporate decisions. She has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (Gh) Ltd as a transactions advisor, a role that equipped her with strong financial and analytical skills. She worked on several complex liquidations, insolvency and restructuring assignments as well as corporate finance transactions. Notable among them are the liquidations of Ghana Airways Ltd and Plant Pool Ltd as well as several due diligence assignments involving large public bodies such as Merchant Bank Ghana and the Volta River Authority (VRA). Naa is a licensed Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. She holds a Professional Baccalaureate in Law (BL) from the Ghana School of Law; a Bachelors in Law (LLB) from the University of Ghana Faculty of Law; and a BA in Psychology and Economics, from the University of Ghana (Legon). Naa is an experienced Chartered Accountant and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG). She is also a member of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and undergoing a charter from the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIT).

NanaAma Botchway-Dowuona is the founder of n. dowuona & company. Her areas of focus are corporate and commercial, property and construction, and energy and infrastructure. NanaAma has advised on numerous significant investments in Ghana and in other parts of Africa. She advised Kingdom Hotel Investments on their acquisition and development of the USD 100 million multipurpose property development in Ghana from the inception of the project. She is currently advising the Volta Lake Transport Company on its USD 300 million Eastern Corridor Multi-Modal Transport Project. She has advised local and regional developers of other significant real estate projects in Ghana including the first certified green office building in Ghana. She also has experience in advising on a variety of aspects of construction projects including planning, permitting and project finance. She advised Kingdom Zephyr, a premier pan-African private equity fund manager, as well as the USD 490 million Pan-African Investment Partners II and the USD 120 million Pan-African Investment Partners I funds managed by Kingdom Zephyr, for many years and in various capacities, on numerous operational, fund management, and transactional matters. She recently advised Databank Agrifund Manager on the establishment of its AAF SME Fund. She also advised on aspects of the establishment of Brainworks Capital, a Zimbabwean principal investment firm. Prior to founding n. dowuona & company, NanaAma practiced with one of the premier Ghanaian law firms, Bentsi-Enchill & Letsa, where she advised on high profile transactions, such as ALCOA’s sale of Valco to the Government of Ghana, a Single Point Mooring BOT project by Trafigura, the acquisition of Ghana Breweries by Guinness Ghana Limited and the negotiation of a mobile telecommunications license by one of the local mobile telecommunications operators. Before returning to Ghana, NanaAma was an associate in the New York office of the premier international law firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where she worked in the mergers and acquisitions and corporate tax departments. NanaAma also worked as an associate for the leading New York law firm of Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman where she advised businesses in a wide variety of industries from securities firms to e-businesses and luxury apparel retail companies on general corporate matters. NanaAma practiced as an audit accountant in the New York Office of Deloitte & Touche. As an audit accountant, she acquired excellent insight into financial statement preparation and analysis and financial reporting. She also gained invaluable knowledge about the financial fundamentals of businesses in a wide variety of industries such as publishing, international banking and apparel manufacture and retail. NanaAma is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Program, New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she received an MBA in Finance and Accounting and Columbia University School of Law, where she received a JD and was named a James Kent Scholar, the highest honor awarded in recognition of excellent academic performance. NanaAma is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the International Bar Association and the Ghana Bar Association.