MARINE / SHIPPING
Peasah- Boadu & Co offers comprehensive services to clients in the shipping sector. In relation to finance, we offer a point of reference for banks financing ferries, container ships or fishing vessels.
In the area of litigation, we advise on admiralty issues such as ship arrest and issues relating to the purchase, sale or leasing of vessels. We also assist clients with litigation relating to carriage of goods, cargo claims and in establishing or defending salvage rights. In the area of corporate recovery, we advise on dealing with shipping companies, lenders and investors in financial difficulty.
Peasah-Boadu & Co can also syndicate financing of vessels.
PROPERTY AND LAND
Peasah Boadu & Co is one of the most highly regarded experts in property law in Ghana. Our practice provides a comprehensive legal service across the full spectrum of the commercial property industry including:
- Investment
- Development
- Property Financing
- Leasing
- Planning
- Public Private Partnership Projects
- Land law
We have strong links with all the major players and intermediaries in the property industry in Ghana. We are also able to provide integrated and streamlined advice on property taxation, property finance, construction, planning and environmental law. Our experience also extends to those transactions in which property forms a major part but where the structures are not characterized as real estate deals in the traditional sense. If, for tax or other reasons, a property deal is being structured as a corporate sale, we have access to the leading M&A experts.
If the development is being funded by means of a PPP, we work closely with our colleagues in PPP who lead the field in that area.
CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW
The corporate and commercial practice at Peasah-Boadu & Co has a wide range of experience in the establishment of all forms of corporate, partnership and trust vehicles available in Ghana.
Ghana remains a leading destination in Africa for neutral institutional transactions. We regularly advise on:
- Debt recovery
- Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Re-organizations
- Joint ventures
- Listings on the Ghana Stock Exchange
- Re-domiciliation of entities from other jurisdictions
- Regulatory compliance
- Project finance transactions
FAMILY LAW
Family law is the legal representation of clients dealing with changes in their family relationships. Family Law lawyers help clients form and dissolve marriages; seek and enforce orders regarding marital property, child custody, child support, alimony, parenting time and visitation and assist clients involved in domestic violence situations.
At Peasah-Boadu & Co, we have worked hard to build a track record of intelligent, honest, and responsible legal representation
We have established a countrywide reputation for excellence in addressing the host of emotional, financial and legal issues that comprise family and marital matters, including:
Divorce • Custody • Visitation and Parenting Time • Marital and Property Settlement Agreements • Child Support • Domestic Violence • Child Relocation Issues • Grandparent Visitation Rights • Post Judgment Enforcement / Modification • Mediation / Collaborative Law, Adoption
INSURANCE
We represent clients in all sectors of the insurance industry in Ghana from general business, life assurance, reinsurance and insurance brokers.
We offer legal advice designed to meet your specific needs by basing our services on our ability to understand your business and your particular market position. We understand the ever changing nature of this industry and the corresponding necessity to assess all changes taken at a national level to regulate it. In particular we monitor the impact of the National Insurance commission
Our services include advice in relation to the following:
- Drafting and reviewing policy documents and programmes
- Establishing, regulating and supervising insurance operations
- Litigating disputed insurance claims and
- Conducting legal and regulatory due diligence.
TAX
Businesses operate under complicated and ever-changing tax rules. Our Tax practices are well- versed in all aspects of tax and tax-related matters in Ghana
. Our Tax practice involves the representation of a wide variety of clients - from individuals and small businesses to multinational corporations - making our lawyers well-equipped to handle tax disputes ranging from several thousand to multimillion dollar matters.
TAX PLANNING
The transactional/planning side of our Tax practice includes advising clients about the tax issues and consequences involved in such diverse areas as mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, limited liability companies, real estate investments, financing transactions , charitable and other not-for-profit organizations, executive compensation, employee benefits and estate planning among others
SECRETARIAL SERVICES
Companies in Ghana are obliged to ensure that their companies comply with the requirements of the country’s Companies Codes. Peasah- Boadu & Co Secretarial practice is dedicated to helping companies, and their directors, secretaries and managers comply with their statutory obligations by providing them with technical and practical support and assistance.
Services and Expertise
The full spectrum of our company secretarial services is available to our clients which includes annual secretarial services, management of changes in officers and constitution, corporate restructuring, corporate governance advice and transaction support.
Annual Secretarial Services
. Our annual secretarial services package includes:
- Acting as company secretary, assistant company secretary or supporting our clients’ own company secretary;
- Preparing companies’ Annual Returns for signature and filing in the Registrar General’s Office. We can also prepare documents and resolutions necessary to convene, hold and minute the Annual General Meeting and to approve the annual audited accounts or the documents and resolutions necessary to approve the accounts but to dispense with the holding of an AGM where permitted;
- Assisting foreign client companies to comply with their obligations where they establish branch or place of business in Ghana.
Special Company Secretarial Services
From incorporation onwards, we offer support in the management of changes of officers and constitution, including the drafting of resolutions, convening meetings, providing advices and filing prescribed forms in connection with:
- formation of companies;
- changes in companies’ directors;
- changes to companies’ memoranda and articles of association;
- name changes;
- transfers and allotments of shares;
- conversion from one company type to another and re-registration;
- voluntary strike-off and re-instatement to the register of companies; and
- voluntary winding-up
- We also provide solicitors to attend board meetings and annual general meetings to take minutes and advise on compliance with the Companies Codes.
INVESTMENT
Our experience enables us to offer a wide range of facilities in the finance and investment industry in Ghana and other Africa Countries. We have an in-depth knowledge of finance availability for a wide range of transactions and understand the complexities of finance transactions.
Our services include:
- Public and private company finance and capital raising
- Commercial and domestic property finance
- Project financing
- Mortgage financing
- Negotiation and preparation of loan and security documentation
- Overseas investment
- Investment advice
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