Mr Ace Anan Ankomah > Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah > Accra, Ghana > Lawyer Profile
Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah Offices
4 MOMOTSE AVENUE
ADABRAKA, ACCRA
Ghana
Mr Ace Anan Ankomah

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)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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy
- Infrastructure projects