Anastasia Akuoko

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Anastasia Akuoko is the partner in charge of Corporate Law. A product of Wesley Girls’ High School and Ghana International School, she received her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Buckingham, U.K.

From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a paralegal in the law firm of Awoonor Law Consultancy (ALC) and took the Ghana Stock Exchange courses while attending the Ghana School of Law. She was subsequently called to the Ghana Bar in 2001, and joined Minkah-Premo & Co. at the beginning of 2002 after completing her pupillage at ALC.  She made partner in 2007. Since then, she has advised the firm’s clients in local and foreign transactions with a combined value of more than $2.0 bn.

Her areas of specialisation are Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law and Maritime Law. She also sits on the boards of several companies as director and/or company secretary.

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Law

Admitted

2001, Ghana

Education

• University of Buckingham (LLB, 1998)
• University of Buckingham (LLM, 1999)

Professional Membership

Ghana Bar Association

International Bar Association

Firm Description:

Minkah-PREMO & CO. is a firm that has lawyers practicing as members of AKOSOMBO CHAMBERS and staff of varied backgrounds providing integrated legal services.

Minkah-PREMO & CO. was established out of the need for an improvement in the justice delivery system. The system was plagued with low standards, snail-paced results and unsatisfactory conditions in which lawyers had to work, culminating in client dissatisfaction with the entire judicial process and precipitating the need for the firm to be set up to improve the justice delivery experience for our clients.

It was the desire and vision to commence and achieve positive change from this that compelled Mr. Justice Kusi-Minkah Premo, a lawyer called to the Ghana Bar in 1984, to set up Minkah-PREMO & CO. (AKOSOMBO CHAMBERS), after stints with the State Insurance Corporation, Kwaku Baah & Co. and Kokroko Chambers. In all three places, lessons in the direction of law practice, service delivery and worker relations were learnt.

Some of the weaknesses which cried for attention were poor emolument (which affected workers’ motivation), poor infrastructure (which affected workers’ productivity and client convenience) and poor worker relations (which affected teamwork and client satisfaction).

These became useful raw materials in the mental process of creating and establishing a law firm that would achieve service beyond client expectation, job satisfaction and faith in the legal process.