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Antoinette Lady Arko

Senior Associate

Antoinette has over eight (8) years’ experience in corporate transactions, energy, and the extractives industries. She represents clients in oil & gas project advisory, energy, mining, mergers & acquisitions, corporate & finance, and regulatory compliance. She has worked on various energy, oil and gas and cross-border M&A transactions, including joint venture and local content matters in these sectors.  Antoinette also has experience in advising clients on various real estate transactions including negotiation support and transactions for the acquisition of property.

Antoinette serves as the chairperson of the Firm’s Junior Management Team.

 

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Oil & gas
  • Energy
  • Mining and Minerals
  • Loan & Security transactions
  • Corporate
  • Property

 

PUBLICATIONS & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

  1. The Oil & Gas Law Review 2022, 10th Edition (Ghana Chapter)
  2. Field Notes & Insights: Changes in the Local Content and Local Participation Regime in the upstream sector (2022)
  3.  Corporate Administration – the emergence of the insolvency practitioner (2020)
  4. Reach for Change, Handbook on Social Enterprises – Ghana Chapter (2018)

 

EDUCATION/BAR MEMBERSHIP

  • Barrister-at-Law, Ghana Law School
  • Bachelor’s Degree (Hons), LLB, University of Ghana, Legon
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Ghana
  • Member, International Bar Association, and Ghana Bar Association

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Best Graduating Student in Advocacy and Legal Ethics – 2014/2015 (Ghana School of Law)