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Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah

 

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Organisation
Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah
I practise/work in
  • International Arbitration
  • International Alternative Dispute Resolution
Profile Photo (Headshot or Logo)
Title (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr)
Mrs
How you'd like your name to appear in the directory
Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey
Suffix
FCIArb
Gender
Female
Country
Ghana
Country of Birth
Ghana
Nationalities
Ghanaian
Languages
English, Twi, Fante.
Individual Member Profession (see note below)
  • Arbitrator
  • Counsel
  • Mediator/Conciliator
Number of Cases as Counsel in international arbitration/ADR
6-20
Areas of Speciality
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • International Commercial Disputes
  • International Investment Disputes
  • Sales & Purchases
  • Technologies
  • Telecommunications
Degrees/Qualifications, Institutions and Dates Obtained
2010 – 2010 Ghana School of Law, Accra - Post Graduate Diploma and Practising Certificate.
2009 – 2010 College of Law, London - PgDip
2007 – 2009 University of Leeds, United Kingdom - LLM and Qualifying Law Degree
2002 – 2006 University of Ghana, Accra - B.A (Hons)
Professional Experience (Job Title, Organisation and Dates)
Partner - Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah
Biography
Nania is a litigation and arbitration practitioner and a Partner at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah in Ghana. She regularly advises and represents clients in a range of high value litigation and arbitration disputes. She has served as a Member of the Electronic Communications Tribunal of Ghana and is listed on CPR’s Panels of Distinguished Neutrals and the Ghana ADR Hub’s List of Arbitrators.
She is a board member of LACIAC, Councillor of the LCIA Africa Users’ Council and Co-Chair of the Africa Arbitration Group of the IBA Arbitration Committee She has been recognized as one of Africa’s 50 Most Promising Young Arbitration Practitioners and was named a Rising Star by Africa Arbitration (July 2019). She has also been featured as a ‘Woman to Watch’ by the African Institute of Women in Law. She lectures in ADR at the Ghana School of Law and is called to the bar in England and Wales and in Ghana.
Legal Background
  • Common Law
Qualified in (specify jurisdiction(s))
Ghana; England and Wales.
Types of agreements from which disputes in your practice most frequently arise
  • Agency/Distribution
  • Charter parties
  • Finance
  • Loan
  • Partnership
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Sale of Business
  • Share Purchase/Joint Venture
  • Tender Processes
List arbitration/ADR articles, book chapters, books and where published
• Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Ghana under the New York Convention (published on Angaza Blog, June 2019).

• Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Africa: An Analysis of the Regime in South Africa and Ghana. (published on Lexology and in Hogan Lovells Africa Newsletter, March 2019.)

• Lex Mundi Global Arbitration Guide, November 2018 (Author of Ghana Chapter and Contributor to the Guide)

• Arbitration in Africa: A Review of Key Jurisdictions (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016), contributor to chapter on arbitration in Ghana.

• Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa: A Multi-jurisdictional Review (1st Edition), co-author of Ghana Chapter with Ace Anan Ankomah. (2013)

• Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa: A Multi-jurisdictional Review (2nd Edition) co-author of Ghana Chapter with Ace Anan Ankomah. (2016)
Website Address
https://www.belonline.org/



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