Practice Areas

SCOPE OF WORK Our full service corporate practice includes rendering Consultancies and Representation of our clients in litigation involving:

• Construction and Engineering (Claims and Contracts)Company, Commercial and Corporate Finance
• Maritime, Aviation, Transportation and Int. Trade
• Oil and Petrochemical Industries.
• Intellectual Property (Trade-Marks, Patents, Designs, Trade-Names, Copy-Right).
• Civil and Criminal Matters.
• Company, Commercial and Corporate Finance
• Banking, Funds and Financial Services.
• Agency and Franchise Insurance & Re-Insurance
• Media, Telecommunications and e-Commerce

Commercial, Civil and Criminal Litigation:

We have a strong and vigorous litigation practice, with wide experience in commerce and other areas relevant to the financial community and industry. We also litigate in matters relating to civil and criminal law. We will act in any form of civil dispute at short notice. We are well equipped to deal with the emergency applications, proceedings and actions to the court.

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution:
Apart from experience of proceedings in all Courts of Ghana and any other Tribunals, we also represent clients in National and International Arbitration. Whenever appropriate, we explore and use the various forms of any alternative dispute resolution means to bring about an early and satisfactory settlement.
Our full service corporate practice includes rendering consultancies and representation of our clients in litigation involving:
Insurance
Maritime, Aviation, Transportation and Int. Trade
Intellectual Property
Civil and Criminal Matters.
Construction and Engineering
Company, Commercial and Corporate Finance
Funds and Financial Services.
Agency and Franchise
Oil and Petrochemical Industries.

Insurance:
Our various representations of several reputable Insurance companies for more than a decade have enriched our library with numerous legal precedents. Such cases serve as an excellent guidance to our clients while addressing their needs. We advise insurers, re-insurers, brokers, P&I Clubs and many other individual and corporate entities on all aspects of Insurance pertaining to marine, aviation, property and casualty business, covering contentious matters and non-contentious corporate, tax and general advisory work. Furthermore, we advise on policy wordings, intermediaries' disputes, claims handling and recoveries, creditors' rights and insolvencies, as well as disciplinary proceedings.

Maritime, Aviation, Transportation and International Trade:
We have been involved in aircraft leasing and financing agreements negotiation and drafting. Our firm has also litigated cases involving air and sea carriage and transportation of people and cargo. Our clients include major insurance companies as well as P&I Clubs.

Intellectual Property:
We pride ourselves with being commonly known as the I.P. experts in Ghana. We have participated in shaping and developing the national legal awareness of I.P. and its significant role in safeguarding and advancement of rights and trade, respectively. While we represent many local and foreign clients including T.M.P. agents,. our firm renders legal advise on I.P. matters and handles various litigations pertaining to, inter-alia; Trade-Mark and Trade-Name disputes.

Civil and Criminal Matters:
We have experience in litigation before all courts of law in civil and criminal matters. We have litigated many successful cases involving civil rights and procedural issues.

Construction and Engineering:
Our affiliated firms are capable of providing a full range of corporate professional services, we assure you of optimum and cost-effective results. This area covers claims for delays caused by employers, architects, engineers, sub-contractors or suppliers, omissions of Bills of Quantity items; assessment of liquidated damages, negligence and design faults; breaches of warranty as to fitness of goods and materials; increased costs and all construction contract problems.

Company, Commercial and Corporate Finance:
We advise in relation to all kinds of Commercial and professional activities in particular we advise on:

Corporate Structure and Regulation:

• Shareholders' agreements
• Minority interests.
• Directors' duties and liabilities.
• Conduct of meetings.
• Compliance

Commercial Agreements:

• Terms and conditions of sale.
• Agency and distribution agreements.
• Joint ventures.

Funds and Financial Services:
Our funds and financial services offer comprehensive legal advice on corporate and commercial matters for fund managers and others in the financial services industry. Areas of practice include:

Funds:

Investment trusts:

• Offshore funds in many jurisdictions, both open and closed ended
• Syndicated trusts
• Limited partnerships
• Pooled portfolios

Agreements:

Discretionary management, advisory and dealing

• Global custody, clearing and settlement.
• Registrar and administration
• Compliance and financial services regulations.
• Investment arrangements and agreement drafting.

Agency and Franchise:
We are able to advice foreign manufactures as well as suppliers on relevant regulations and in selecting local agents, distributors and franchisees for their products and services.

Oil and Petrochemical Industries:
Having had the chance to represent and defend the interests of a leading multinational corporation with many of its subsidiaries and affiliated companies as well as a local industrial oil refinery, our firm became well prepared for rendering diversified legal assistance for the ever-growing oil sector.

Debt Collection Division

Debt collection procedures and measurements have always constituted an important element of our practice. Our debt collection staffs who concentrate on work for individuals as well as firms and corporations seek all means in our powers to settle the issue of any indebtedness away from courts. The staff's actions normally include serving notices, sending registered letters, attending to meetings of mediation and negotiation and assisting the parties of a claim to reach such an amicable settlement. This division serves our clients under the supervision of our legal team.

Intellectual Property Registration and Protection Division:

We are unique in Ghana in having retained a patent and trade mark agency practice. Our team, expert on Intellectual and Industrial Property rights, allows us in each case to view the whole picture, render appropriate technical and strategic advice and take whatever action needed to assist clients, whether advising on patentability, trade-mark protection, design rights, copyright and related rights, filling and prosecuting patents, trade marks and design rights, or taking offensive or defensive steps to protect clients' commercial interests and legal positions.

Translation Division:

Our aim at Libra Translation Division, is to provide professional and innovative service in a tailored manner, adding value for our clients. Libra Translation works with a full range of translators in all living languages of the world as well as reputable translation houses and/or translators in the West African Sub-Region. Through interconnection with the legal division, our translators can, on the one hand, receive precise legal interpretations of vaguely phrased texts, and, on the other hand, provide the clients of the legal division with expedited services when needed in any proceedings.
At Libra Translation, we are determined to provide the quality expertise available to our firm in order to produce professional work to serve the clients' purposes; an aim, which we trust, you always have targeted.