Vision

Adjei Bediako @ Law (AB@L) epitomizes excellent world-class professional legal service and values the satisfaction and loyalty of its clients.

Mission

AB@L is a premier domestic and international law firm that strives to achieve results that exceed expectations through our commitment to our clients. We add value to the businesses of our clients both locally and internationally.

We are easily accessible, efficient, responsive and technologically competent. We are committed to our communities, committed to improving ourselves and investing in career opportunities to develop and ensure sustained growth and financial independence.

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About Us

AB@L helps individuals and businesses to break through challenges and realise their goals by offering excellent legal services to optimise the needs of the client and the profit goals of their businesses.

With a formidable team of attorneys, our firm serves clients of all sizes and across multiple industries to meet domestic and international standards.

We value and provide clients with first class legal services, spanning the spectrum of rendering legal advice and opinions, representing clients before courts of law and other administrative bodies. We apply the discipline and diligence of effective litigation to virtually all areas of the law, drawing on a comprehensive roster of legal services to create multidisciplinary teams that give each client’s matter the best of the firm’s collective intelligence and capabilities.

We have a solid reputation as a formidable player in banking law, corporate and commercial practice, information communication technology law, intellectual property, immovable property law, labour law, setting up of companies and other business organizations, immigration, alternative dispute resolution and general litigation and transactional lawyering.

Customer service and satisfaction are our number one priority. We consciously and purposefully aim at satisfying the needs of our clients and delivering excellent, professional and cost effective legal and related services of value to our clientele.

AB@L consciously hires excellent and seasoned attorneys and paralegals which gives us an advantage when handling our clients’ most challenging and technical cases. We invest in training our members of staff through in-house continuing legal education and organised professional legal education with the Ghana Bar Association and international bodies.

At AB@L, you are in the safest of hands with uncompromising legal representation. Your business deals are confidential and secured. You can have your peace of mind because we are your legal vanguard. We guarantee you excellent and professional legal and related services.

OUR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXECUTIVE

Dawn Sutherland is the President of Bridge-To-Africa Connection, Inc., a non-profit 501©(3) organization that focuses on changing lives, one person at a time by building self sufficiency, education and empowerment in women and girls. Prior to joining the nonprofit sector, she served as a Vice President of Finance at Xerox Corporation.

Sutherland is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, lecturer, and motivational speaker. She also consults with advocacy organizations that are committed to empowering women with practical financial, business and self reliant skills.

In her 32 year stellar career with Xerox, Sutherland provided leadership developing C-level contacts for the organization. Her financial expertise was instrumental in creating strategic business models that grew market share, increased brand awareness and yielded year over year growth. Sutherland also has broad international experience, having been an expatriate with Xerox Ltd. in England. She was commonly known throughout Xerox for managing from the heart, managing change and building teams which delivered results.

Sutherland is a member of several non-profit boards. She has served as Chairperson of the Advisory Board for African Focus Inc., an organization focused on intercultural exchange, education and economic empowerment. She also serves as an advisor for the Xerox Los Angeles Black Employees Association and is a board member of International Black Women Public Policy Institute and the International Director of R.E.S.T.O.R.E. Worldwide, Inc.

Sutherland is also active in the National Black MBA Association, National Association of Professional Women, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and other professional organizations.

As a dynamic accomplisher, she has been recognized with numerous professional and community awards, including:

• Numerous International Awards and Citation from 2014 to Present
• 2013 YWCA Phenomenal Women Award
• 2013 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Far Western Region Leadership Award
• 2011 Certificate of Commendation from 26th Senate District Commission on Trade & Investment in Africa
• 2011 UNCF Los Angeles Spirit Award
• 2010 Outstanding Corporate Executive Award from the Black Business Association
• 2010 Technology Award from Black Women for Wellness2009, 2010 & 2011 Certificate of Commendation from County of Los Angeles for Community Service
• 2009, 2010 & 2011 Certificate of Commendation from County of Los Angeles for Community Service

An avid art collector, one of Sutherland’s passions is supporting artists from Africa. She travels extensively and has a network of artists around the globe, and produces fine art exhibitions. Another passion is mentoring young girls by empowering them with practical skills, wisdom, and knowledge.

Sutherland’s Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Boston College, Masters of Social Work and Masters of Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University helped prepare her for her life’s journey. Staying true to her love of the Motherland, an Expatriate, she now makes her home in Kumasi, Ghana.

Labour Law

Transactional Lawyering

Immigration

Immovable Property Law

Banking Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Civil Litigation

Corporate and Commercial Practice

General Litigation

Information Communication Technology Law

Intellectual Property

Setting up of Companies and other Business Organizations

Our Track Record

As the provider of excellent first class professional legal services, Adjei Bediako @ Law has performed a wide range of services that satisfy the dynamic needs of its clients. The firm

Advised a Ghanaian mining company on the acquisition of a multi-million dollar facility from a renowned international financial services entity towards the funding of mining equipment, which transaction was the first of its kind in West Africa.

Advises the largest timber processing company in Ghana on various legal issues including corporate governance, acquisition and legal protection of landed properties, labour issues, etc.

Advised a Ghanaian company on legal and related matters on the execution of one of the biggest multi-million dollar engineering projects with an international company

Advised and represented both local and international clients in complex intellectual property litigations and in some cases, amicably settle such matters out-of-court

Represents a number of insurance companies in courtroom litigations as well as successfully negotiating insurance claims against such companies

Provides support systems for international clients in their application for resident and work permits with the relevant authorities in Ghana

Advised a Ghanaian mining company in a multi-million dollar loan contract that it won from a multi-national mining company.

Advises a multi-national agribusiness company on doing business in Ghana as well as labour and related legal issues

Advises a number of corporate entities and individuals in both moveable and immovable property transactions

Assists both local and international clients to register and operate businesses in Ghana.

Represents the biggest media organisation in Ghana.

You can surely count on our services, our customers come first and we have your best interest at the heart of our work.

OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE PLEDGE

At AB@L, we pledge to:

Work for you

We go an extra mile to understand your goals, vision and apprehensions on any legal issue you have. We identify and define all the legal issues after which we come up with tailor-made solutions that address your peculiar challenge. We aim at helping you find the best solutions for all your legal issues.

Be Professional

In order to make available to you the best professional services of international standards, our recruitment and training policies are geared toward hiring and retaining high calibre attorneys and auxiliary staff who understand the dynamic needs of your business and the industry you work in. You are assured of utmost courtesy, decency and professionalism in our dealings with you.

Keep our relationship with you confidential

We undertake to keep our engagement with you and the information and materials we obtain from you confidential. We cherish the confidence, faith and trust you repose in us. Consequently all our attorneys, paralegals and auxiliary staff abide by our sacred internal Practice and Office Manual that makes it obligatory for all members of staff to keep your dealings with us confidential and safe. To avoid conflict of interest situations, we undertake electronic and manual conflict of interest assessment before we accept to work for you.

Offer you flexible fee structure and options

AB@L adopts a flexible approach towards its billing and is open to considering reasonable fee structure that will be mutually beneficial to you and us. We employ a combination of hourly charges, negotiated lump sum or percentage-based fees. We make sure you are fully aware of the different fee options, the likely costs and charges for our services and the basis of such charges.

Be available and responsiveness

We are available to communicate with you on twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week basis. We have dedicated “24/7 mobile” (cell phone) numbers that you can reach us on. We practice an immutable policy of responding to any of your communication within a maximum of 10 minutes from the time of receipt. You can count on us to be there for you whenever you need our services.

OTHER WORKING POLICIES AT AB@L

In addition to our internal Practice and Office Manual, other policies that guide the relationship between you and us are:

Case Management

Depending on the subject matter of your case, a team of dedicated and specialist lawyers will be assigned to work on your case and constantly update you on the progress of your case on any medium of communication of your choice. We develop a case plan for each matter based not only on law but also on strategy.

Billing/Invoicing

Lump sum or percentage based fees clients are given invoices that are accompanied by a summary of actual time spent on your work and its corresponding cost.

Value Addition

We keep you updated on the impact of existing and proposed legislation, regulatory policies and judicial decisions on your businesses through direct communication with you or our business impact sessions and e-journals.

Client complaints and concerns

It is an unpardonable offence for an attorney, paralegal or an auxiliary staff to offend or mistreat you. All complaints you may have with respect to an ill treatment by a member of staff, a case attorney shall timeously address that complaint. Where you are still not satisfied, a Lead Attorney shall see to the amicable resolution of your particular complaint.

Annual Client Surveys

In order to serve you better, we undertake Annual Client Survey (ACS). With this survey, we elicit your candid and honest feedback on the services we have rendered to you over the year. This allows you to help us chart a better course in our quest to give you the best of legal and related services. We are more than delighted to serve you.