Esine Okudzeto

Esine is a partner and focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Oil and Gas law, Corporate law, Commercial law, Labour law, Intellectual property and Arbitration. Esine has performed due diligence for several international clients advising these clients on mergers and acquisitions in Ghana. Esine played a leading role in a Fortune 500 company’s acquisition of Unilever Plc’s oil palm business in Ghana. Esine was also the lead transactional advisor for the creation of a joint venture that set up a cargo hub, warehouse and handing service at Kotoka International Airport. In the aforementioned transactions, Esine was instrumental in the incorporation of companies, the negotiation and drafting of licensing agreements, the drafting of shareholders agreements, the drafting of leases and company regulations, the registration of trademarks, the registration of leases, as well as providing legal advice on tax and labor issues. Esine is a board member of Sena Chartered Secretaries, the firm’s sister company that specializes in company secretarial and investment consultancy. Esine serves as a corporate secretary for various clients, where she attends board meetings and advises companies on their corporate responsibilities and powers. She also helps corporations with filing relevant documents in compliance with the Company’s Act of Ghana.



In 2006, Esine clerked for Justice Akua Kuenyehia at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. She has also served on the Rules of Court Committee of the Judicial Service where she helped in establishing procedure rules for legal proceedings in District Courts, the Court of Appeal and Commissions of Inquiry.



Esine is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Rotary Club of Accra, Ring Road Central.