Koranteng & Koranteng Legal Advisors

Managing Partner

Afua Koranteng is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years’ experience, with expertise in corporate law, capital markets, energy-power, infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, telecom infrastructure, corporate governance and company secretarial services.

She is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Koranteng & Koranteng Legal Advisors a corporate/commercial law firm in Ghana. Since its inception, Koranteng & Koranteng Legal Advisors has been recognised by  IFLR1000 and the Legal 500, both international guides to the world's leading law firms, for Infrastructure Development (Power), Capital Markets (Debt), Project Development (Power), Banking and Project Finance and Energy.

She has led the firm in advising the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Ghana on several of its sovereign bond issuances including the zero-rated $3 billion in 2021. She leads the firm’s provision of advice to the Government of Ghana on its energy sector recovery programme.

She has been an expert contributor to the World Bank’s Business Ready 2024 Report and its 2023 Women, Business and the Law Report.

Prior to co-founding Koranteng & Koranteng, worked with leading law firms in Ghana; JLD & MB, CQ Legal & Consulting and Sey & Co where she advised on major international commercial transactions. She was also Head of Legal and Company Secretary at ATC Tower (Ghana) Ltd.

She was called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and subsequently to the Ghana Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom, a Master of Laws LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick in England with a thesis on “Stock Market Development in Africa: A Perspective from Ghana and South Africa” and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Trade Law and Corporate Law from the BPP Law School in London.

She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.  She is also a member of the institute of Directors, Ghana and a Notary Public.

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Ghana Bar Association - Member

Institute of Directors (Ghana) - Member

Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, UK - Member

International Bar Association - Member

University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - July 2000

University of Warwick, UK, Master of Laws (LLM) - September 2001 (International Economic Law)

BPP Law School, UK, Bar Vocational Course – July 2002 (Postgraduate Diploma)

Ghana School of Law, Post Call Course - April 2004