Mr Ace Anan Ankomah > Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah > Accra, Ghana > Lawyer Profile

Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah
4 MOMOTSE AVENUE
ADABRAKA, ACCRA
Ghana

Work Department

Disputes

Position

Senior Partner

 

Career

Ace Anan Ankomah is the Senior Partner of the firm. He has over 29 years’ experience in legal practice. As the head of the Disputes practice group of the firm, he is responsible for all contentious matters, by managing, supervising, and performing the required analyses, and then handling trials before the courts and at international and domestic arbitration.

He has worked as Counsel in several headline dispute matters both in Ghana and internationally.

Ace has represented several local and international clients including International Finance Corporation, Bank of Ghana, Abosso Goldfields, Exim Bank, NML Capital Limited, Vitol, Ecobank, Deloitte & Touche, AngloGold Ashanti and Vodafone.

He was the lead attorney for NML Capital in the headline case in Ghana against Argentina that led to the attachment of an Argentine war vessel, proceedings before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the Supreme Court in Ghana, and ultimately a settlement of over US$2.4 billion. In arbitration, he has represented clients such as Volta Aluminium Company/Kaiser, Western Telesystems, Deloitte, Fortiz, and Balkan Energy. He led the Ghana side of the legal team that secured an arbitral award in excess of US$50 million for Bankswitch.

Languages

English

Memberships

Member, Ghana Bar Association

Fellow, Aspen Global Leadership Network

Fellow, African Leadership Initiative, West Africa

Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

Education

Ace holds an LLB from the University of Ghana and a Master of Laws in International Taxation from Queens University, Canada.

Lawyer Rankings

Ghana > Dispute resolution

(Hall of Fame)

Ace Anan Ankomah  –Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah

The ‘extremely detail-oriented‘ team at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah stands out for its ‘commercial and practical approach‘. Under the collective leadership of Ace Anan Ankomah, Daad Akwesi, Gloria Cofie, Golda Denyo and Nania Owusu-Ankomah, the group covers the full spectrum of contentious matters. The practice has extensive experience in handling corporate and commercial litigation, construction disputes, debt recovery issues and contentious matters in the employment and family law arenas. Elsewhere, the department is well regarded for its alternative dispute resolution expertise, with a solid track record in handling domestic and international arbitration proceedings.