Member Profiles

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.

Admitted to the Nigerian Bar 1992, Admitted to the Ghana Bar 2007, Education: Ghana School of Law [QCL-2007]; Nigerian Law School [BL 1991-1992]; Obafemi Awolowo University Ile – Ife [LL. B]; University of Ile-Ife [B.A. - 1986]; Work: Director, Integrated Legal Consultants, Accra Ghana since April 2007; Fugar & Company -Accra Ghana 2006 – 2007; Wright & Co – Freetown, Sierra Leone 2003 – 2005; Fourah Bay College – Freetown Sierra Leone, 2003- 2005; Aluko & Oyebode - Lagos Nigeria, 1994 – 2001; Oceanic International Bank Nigeria 1993 – 1994. Member: Nigerian Bar Association, Ghana Bar Association, International Bar Association, International Trademarks Association, Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance.

Massias & Partners strive to deliver a high quality service and in this way, develop long term client relationships. An understanding of our clients business goals allows us to develop the strategy to achieve them. The Massias Family has been in Gibraltar for several hundred years. Traditionally the name has been historically respected, trustworthy and solid. We have continued this tradition and taken it into the current generation. We have both national and international clients While we are based in Gibraltar, like our clients, our reach is global. For a brief resume of what we do click through each practice area page. We are here to help you. PRACTICAL AND RELEVANT ADVICE Our clients value our approachable, astute and commercial-minded advice. We have a reputation for managing and delivering successful outcomes for our clients. Our goal is simple. To offer legal advice that is relevant, affordable and of the highest quality.

Stelios Stylianou, senior partner of Stylianou & Stylianou, has been practising aviation law for the past 42 years. His firm has acted for major airlines and aviation insurers in all fields of aviation including, but not limited to, air accidents, passenger and cargo claims, litigation of aviation disputes and settlement negotiations. Among other matters, the firm has been involved in litigation and settlement negotiations in respect of claims arising from: the Swissair accident at Athens airport (1979); the EgyptAir aircraft hijacking on a flight from Athens (1985); the Olympic Airways accident at Samos Island (1989); the Greek Dassault Falcon 900 accident near Bucharest (1999); the EKAB/Helitalia helicopter accidents (2001 and 2002); the fatal air accident of Helios B737-300 near Athens (14 August 2005); the fatal accident of a Greek Army Chinook helicopter (11 September 2004); the crash of an Olympic Aviation Schweizer helicopter near Athens (22 April 2008); the crash of a Bell 206B helicopter in the area of Crete Island (5 August 2010), the crash of an Apache military helicopter near Athens (30 July 2010); the Tatarstan Airlines accident of B737-53A in Kazan, Russia (17 November 2013); and the fatal accident to military NATO F-16 aircraft in Albacete, Spain (25 January 2015). Stelios Stylianou has been a member of the Bar Association of Piraeus since 1972 and is admitted before all courts of Greece, including the Greek Supreme Court (Areopagus) and the Council of State (the supreme administrative court of Greece). The firm's aviation law team comprises Dina Dousca-Stylianou, Mara Stylianou, Ariana Stylianou and Petros Blessios. Stylianou & Stylianou have legal correspondents in all major Greek cities and in the Republic of Cyprus. They are also liaising with several well-known aviation law firms worldwide.

Dr Nikolaos Lyberis is attorney and Managing Partner of VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS Law Firm (1900), specializing in Intellectual Property Law in Greece and abroad. Being a litigator, he is admitted before the Supreme Courts for civil and administrative matters. Nikolaos represents prestigious clients in trademark, patent and other IP rights conflicts from all branches of industry and commerce, such as pharma and cosmoceuticals, consumer goods, automobile manufacturing, food and beverages, engineering, and others. Nikolaos graduated from the Athens University Law School, worked as an assistant at the European Law Section of the Law School of the Democritus University and holds a PhD in European Economic Law of the Law School of Hamburg University, where he also worked as an assistant responsible for the European Documentation Center. Nikolaos served as legal advisor (Referent) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg for seven years delivering legal advices to inquiring German courts. Nikolaos is a member of numerous international associations focusing on IP law. He currently serves as a Council Member of ECTA and as member of the ECTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee. He is also Secretary of the Hellenic Group of AIPPI. In the years 2005-2010 he worked as an active member of the Legislative Committee for the new Greek Trademarks Law 4072/2012, resp. Law 4155/2013 for the implementation of the Enforcement Directive 48/2004 in the Greek legal order. Since January 2014 he was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Patent Office. He is the author of various contributions inter alia on aspects of Community Trademarks Law, Unfair Competition, Patent and Design Law. He has conducted seminars on trademarks case law in the frame of educational programs for Examiners of the Greek Trademarks Office.