Our lawyers have experience helping clients with operations in Ghana meet the evolving – and sometimes conflicting – expectations of regulatory and enforcement agencies.
We guide clients in all aspects of drawing up, implementing and managing compliance programs, assessing and mitigating risk, remediating compliance issues and running internal investigations.
Experience has included advising:
- Regarding company secretarial and governance advisory services to a number of companies in the areas of banking, telecommunication, insurance, oil and gas, media, hospitality, logistics, and a government entity.
- Regarding auditing compliance with the Companies Act and related industry regulations of a number of companies in the areas of banking, telecommunication, insurance, oil and gas, mining, media and hospitality.
- A Ghana mining company in relation to allegations of environmental breaches made against it by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and sanctions imposed on it by the EPA including suspension of mining activities.
- A mining company in Ghana in relation to its corporate governance issues and the validity of its mineral rights.
- A product and service provider in relation to its activities in the upstream petroleum sector and which involved advising on local content requirements under the Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations, 2013 and compliance with the Regulations as well as providing responses to local content queries and the observations made by the Petroleum Commission (PC) in certain correspondence with the product and service provider.