Oxford & Beaumont established itself in 2006 and already "they certainly have an established position in the market", says a peer. Another practitioner says that the firm "is run by two very experienced lawyers [former Linklaters lawyer Elikem Kuenyehia and Amina Kaguah], so I do not see why they should not become a top firm"....
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Oxford & Beaumont established itself in 2006 and already "they certainly have an established position in the market", says a peer. Another practitioner says that the firm "is run by two very experienced lawyers [former Linklaters lawyer Elikem Kuenyehia and Amina Kaguah], so I do not see why they should not become a top firm". Oxford & Beaumont works closely with Norton Rose and is the first Ghanaian firm to have opened an international office in London.
Banking clients include United Bank for Africa, Citibank and the International Finance Corporation, and the firm is especially noted for its syndicated loans expertise. This year Oxford & Beaumont received mandates from Standard Chartered Bank to advise on an $80 million loan to Bulk Oil Storage and Transport, and advised Stanbic Bank and Standard Finance to assist on a $46 million loan to Kingdom Hotel Investments Ghana to construct a five-star hotel in Accra. The firm also acted for Cal Bank on a $20 million term loan to Gold Fields Ghana.
In M&A, the firm handled the largest direct investment into the country since the privatisation of Ashanti Goldfields in the 1990s, advising Vodafone on its $900 million acquisition of 70% of the share capital of Ghana Telecom, together with Ghana's national fibre assets from the government of Ghana. Vodacom instructed the firm in connection with its unsuccessful bid for 66.7% of the shares in Ghana Telecom and in the $700 million acquisition of Gateway Telecommunications and its subsidiaries.
The firm is active in a construction transaction in the tourism sector and is advising Primrose Properties on a first-class residential project in Accra. In the oil sector, the firm is acting for Chase Petroleum in a series of infrastructure projects.
"They deliver quality work on time and that is what counts, because there is a lot of competition and we do not want to lose out," says one banking client.
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